I've been using the Google My Business API v4.x to fetch information about my My Business locations (especially user reviews and questions&answers).
According to https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/businessinformation/rest/v1/accounts.locations Google will deprecate/sunset the Google MyBusiness API.
The above document by Google specifies replacement APIs for some of the data previously available in My Business API v4.x, for example:
- Account Management API v1
- Questions API v1
- Business Information API v1
I managed to move to the new APIs for most of my use cases. Unfortunately, it seems there is no replacement for fetching the user reviews of a specific location and I cannot find anything in the API documentation or the C# API client libraries that mention user reviews.
Am I missing something? Has support for user reviews been dropped silently?
I found that the Google Places API may grant access to user reviews of places. Are these the same user reviews that can be found in My Business? I only need user reviews of my My Business locations, not random places in Google Maps - so this seems like overkill for my use case, even not counting the additional costs?