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How to export Google reviews to Excel?

Whether you're performing an audit for a client, or just want to get a clear picture of what's being said about your business, exporting your google reviews is as easy as it sounds, even though Google doesn't exactly make it easy.

Here are 3 ways to export any listing's Google reviews to a nice, clean excel file.

1. Download reviews using Google Takeout

I actually did not know about Google Takeout until I looked into this topic of exporting Google Reviews.

When I saw they did, I thought "Brilliant, surely this is how everyone does this".

Until I realised they only allow JSON exports, no CSV.

JSON can technically be converted into CSV, but it requires fairly advanced intelligence (human or artificial) to figure out how to convert nested data into table format. For that reason, most "online json to csv" converters will spit out absolutely unusable garbage. Unless you have a readily available Google review json parser, I would definitely not recommend this approach.

Export Google reviews to json with Google Takeout

Takeout basically offers an interface from which you can download all ( and I mean all ) the data Google has on you.

This includes your Google My Business data, including your businesses' reviews.

Obviously, this won't let you download reviews for GMB accounts you do not own (such as competitors, or clients if they didn't share access, etc). so it's of limited value to be honest.

It is still a valid option if you need to export more than 1000 reviews, have a lot of time on hand, and cannot spend more than $0.10 per review, which is why I included it.

2 Download Google reviews to Excel using online scrapers and free extensions

You might have seen online scrapers or free extensions that claim they can export google reviews to excel for free, or almost free.

Most of them work. They're kind of slow and clunky because they work by loading entire google pages on your browser, but they should get the job done.

Here's the catch though.

You won't get exact review dates for your reviews.

Google uses relative dates for reviews. "3 days ago", "3 weeks ago", "3 months ago", etc.

And because these scrapers just scrape whatever Google is showing, they'll group all reviews for 2 years ago on a single date, 2 years ago exactly.

If you're exporting your google reviews for analysis, this makes those scrapers pretty much entirely useless.

Google actually makes the exact date and time of each review available, but it's a little technical to access it. We've figured out how, and our review exports come with exact review date (and times) for all reviews. You can read more about how to get exact dates for your google reviews here

3 Review exports by reviewflowz

The easiest way to get a review export is to use our very own pay as you go review exports.

We charge $0.10 to make it a no brainer for anyone looking for a serious solution. You can download a sample of 25 rows for any google maps listing to double check before making your purchase.

Access review exports and download Google reviews in minutes

The exports include all available data points on Google Maps:

The Google My Business listing name
The review ID (Google's)
The review content
The review score (between 1 & 5)
The review link
The date the review was published
The reviewer's name (when available)

Here's a screenshot of an example export

Eiffel tower's reviews sample

Access review exports and download Google reviews in minutes

If you need Google reviews on a regular basis, or if you're looking into Google Review Management Software, consider our subscription plans.

How to download photos from Google reviews?

If you're looking into Google reviews, you might need to download the photos attached to each review.

Unfortunately, photos are often unavailable on standard scraping solutions & chrome extensions. But they are on Reviewflowz : )

We pull every photo URL from every review, and include them in a neat column in the CSV export you can download from our Pay As You Go exports.

If you need the actual image asset, the next step is to download the images in bulk. Depending on the volume you're dealing with, you can do that manually, making sure each photo is properly linked with the right review (and reviewer's name) – or you can bulk download all images at once using a chrome extension like TabSave.

TabSave is one of those chrome extensions I personally love. It's been around forever, and for good reason. It does what it claims, and it does it really well.

Install the extension, open it, click the pencil on the bottom right corner, and paste in a list of image URLs from your review export.

Hit download (bottom right corner) and you'll have all the images stored on your desktop.

Pro tip: Before you hit download, you can customize the folder where you want to store them in chrome settings. Don't forget to change it back to your default downloads folder!

How can you leverage the photos from your Google reviews?

First, they make great UGC marketing assets. You can share them on your socials, and use them to engage the customer that dropped a review.

Second, they're incredibly valuable to give context if you use AI to reply to reviews automatically. Any AI agent's reply will be 10x more relevant with context from photos posted by the reviewer.

They're also a great excuse to ask for reviews. If you showcase review photos all over your website & physical locations asking your clients to share feedback on their experience is a lot more natural, than the usual "it helps us a lot get more clients like you" sort of pitch.

Updated on: 28/08/2025

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