Google places reviews API
Google ReviewsGoogle Reviews allows you to display business profiles and reviews for one or many companies on your website or blog. How to Connect to GoogleIn order for the plugin to access your Google reviews, you must create a Google Places API key by following the steps in this tutorial video. Features of the Google Places APIGoogle only allows serving reviews via the Google Places API. That necessarily means there are some limitations. Keep in mind the following:
Keep in mind that you can use manual or auto-refreshing of reviews to add new reviews from your Google Places using our auto-refresh feature. Adding Single Google ReviewsThe Reviews that you dont get over the API, you can add manually as Single Reviews. TroubleshootingIf the Platform Status does not read Connected after entering your API key, additional steps may be required to establish a connection. Billing Not EnabledAs of July 16th, 2018, Google requires users to enable billing before accessing the Google Places API to retrieve their reviews. Enabling billing on the Google Cloud Platform should not result in any actual charges since regular use of the plugin falls under the free usage quota. Even so, enabling billing is required in order to reliably access your reviews over time. To enable billing, follow the steps below:
NOTE:Existing Billing Accounts Must Still Be Applied to Projects Restricted Key DetectedThe most common reason for this error is that an existing Google Places API Key was entered with HTTP referrer restrictions enabled. In order to access your reviews, you must either create a new key without restrictions or change the restriction type. Creating a New API Key The easiest way to resolve this error is to create a new Google Places API key by following the instructions in the tutorial video. Changing Restriction Type from HTTP Referrer to IP Address If you wish to continue restricting access to your API key, then you will have to follow Googles documentation to change the restriction type from HTTP referrer to an IP address restriction. Note that it may take several minutes after changing the restriction type for the changes to be reflected in the plugin settings. |