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Get Google-Reviews with PHP cURL & without API Key
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| <?php | |
| /* | |
| 💬 Get Google-Reviews with PHP cURL & without API Key | |
| ===================================================== | |
| **This is a dirty but usefull way to grab the first 8 most relevant reviews from Google with cURL and without the use of an API Key** | |
| How to find the needed CID No: | |
| - use: [https://pleper.com/index.php?do=tools&sdo=cid_converter] | |
| - and do a search for your business name | |
| Parameter | |
| --------- | |
| ```PHP | |
| $options = array( | |
| 'google_maps_review_cid' => '17311646584374698221', // Customer Identification (CID) | |
| 'show_only_if_with_text' => false, // true = show only reviews that have text | |
| 'show_only_if_greater_x' => 0, // (0-4) only show reviews with more than x stars | |
| 'show_rule_after_review' => true, // false = don't show <hr> Tag after each review | |
| 'show_blank_star_till_5' => true, // false = don't show always 5 stars e.g. ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ | |
| 'your_language_for_tran' => 'en', // give you language for auto translate reviews | |
| 'sort_by_reating_best_1' => true, // true = sort by rating (best first) | |
| 'show_cname_as_headline' => true, // true = show customer name as headline | |
| 'show_age_of_the_review' => true, // true = show the age of each review | |
| 'show_txt_of_the_review' => true, // true = show the text of each review | |
| 'show_author_of_reviews' => true, // true = show the author of each review | |
| ); | |
| echo getReviews($options); | |
| ``` | |
| > HINT: Use .quote in you CSS to style the output | |
| ###### Copyright 2019-2020 Igor Gaffling | |
| */ | |
| $options = array( | |
| 'google_maps_review_cid' => '10054689419972994821', // Customer Identification (CID) | |
| 'show_only_if_with_text' => false, // true = show only reviews that have text | |
| 'show_only_if_greater_x' => 0, // (0-4) only show reviews with more than x stars | |
| 'show_rule_after_review' => true, // false = don't show <hr> Tag after each review (and before first) | |
| 'show_blank_star_till_5' => true, // false = don't show always 5 stars e.g. ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ | |
| 'your_language_for_tran' => 'en', // give you language for auto translate reviews | |
| 'sort_by_reating_best_1' => true, // true = sort by rating (best first) | |
| 'show_cname_as_headline' => true, // true = show customer name as headline | |
| 'show_age_of_the_review' => true, // true = show the age of each review | |
| 'show_txt_of_the_review' => true, // true = show the text of each review | |
| 'show_author_of_reviews' => true, // true = show the author of each review | |
| ); | |
| /* -------------------- */ | |
| echo getReviews($options); | |
| /* -------------------- */ | |
| function getReviews($option) { | |
| $ch = curl_init('https://www.google.com/maps?cid='.$option['google_maps_review_cid']); /* GOOGLE REVIEWS BY cURL */ | |
| if ( isset($option['your_language_for_tran']) and !empty($option['your_language_for_tran']) ) { | |
| curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Accept-Language: '.$option['your_language_for_tran'])); | |
| } | |
| curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36'); | |
| curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); | |
| curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); | |
| $result = curl_exec($ch); | |
| curl_close($ch); /* </cURL END> */ | |
| $pattern = '/window\.APP_INITIALIZATION_STATE(.*);window\.APP_FLAGS=/ms'; /* REVIEW REGEX PATTERN */ | |
| if ( preg_match($pattern, $result, $match) ) { /* CHECK IF REVIEWS FOUND */ | |
| $match[1] = trim($match[1], ' =;'); /* DIRTY JSON FIX */ | |
| $reviews = json_decode($match[1]); /* 2. JSON DECODE */ | |
| $reviews = ltrim($reviews[3][6], ")]}'"); /* DIRTY JSON FIX */ | |
| $reviews = json_decode($reviews); /* 2. JSON DECODE */ | |
| $customer = $reviews[6][11]; /* POSITION OF REVIEWS */ | |
| $reviews = $reviews[6][52][0]; /* POSITION OF REVIEWS */ | |
| } /* END CHECK */ | |
| $return = ''; /* INI VAR */ | |
| if (isset($reviews)) { /* CHECK REVIEWS */ | |
| if ( isset($option['sort_by_reating_best_1']) and $option['your_lansort_by_reating_best_1guage_for_tran'] == true ) /* CHECK SORT */ | |
| array_multisort(array_map(function($element) { return $element[4]; }, $reviews), SORT_DESC, $reviews); /* SORT */ | |
| $return .= '<div class="quote">'; /* OPEN DIV */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_cname_as_headline']) and $option['show_cname_as_headline'] == true) $return .= '<strong>'.$customer.'</strong><br>'; /* CUSTOMER */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_rule_after_review']) and $option['show_rule_after_review'] == true) $return .= '<hr size="1">'; /* RULER */ | |
| foreach ($reviews as $review) { /* START LOOP */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_only_if_with_text']) and $option['show_only_if_with_text'] == true and empty($review[3])) continue; /* CHECK TEXT */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_only_if_greater_x']) and $review[4] <= $option['show_only_if_greater_x']) continue; /* CHECK RATING */ | |
| for ($i=1; $i <= $review[4]; ++$i) $return .= '⭐'; /* RATING */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_blank_star_till_5']) and $option['show_blank_star_till_5'] == true) for ($i=1; $i <= 5-$review[4]; ++$i) $return .= '☆'; /* RATING */ | |
| $return .= '<br>'; /* NEWLINE */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_txt_of_the_review']) and $option['show_txt_of_the_review'] == true) $return .= $review[3].'<br>'; /* TEXT */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_age_of_the_review']) and $option['show_age_of_the_review'] == true) $return .= '<small>'.$review[0][1].' </small>'; /* AUTHOR */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_age_of_the_review']) and $option['show_age_of_the_review'] == true and /* IF AUTHOR & AGE */ | |
| isset($option['show_age_of_the_review']) and $option['show_age_of_the_review'] == true) $return .= '<small> — </small>'; /* PRINT — */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_age_of_the_review']) and $option['show_age_of_the_review'] == true) $return .= '<small>'.$review[1].' </small>'; /* AGE */ | |
| if (isset($option['show_rule_after_review']) and $option['show_rule_after_review'] == true) $return .= '<hr size="1">'; /* RULER */ | |
| } /* END LOOP */ | |
| $return .= '</div>'; /* CLOSE DIV */ | |
| } /* CHECK REVIEWS */ | |
| return $return; /* RETURN DATA */ | |
| } /* END OF FUNCTION */ |
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