Google reviews

Range Trust reads your Google Business Profile reviews through the Places API (New), using your own Google Cloud API key. Nothing sits between your site and Google.

Get an API key

  1. In the Google Cloud Console, create (or pick) a project.
  2. APIs & Services → Library, enable Places API (New).
  3. APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → API key.
  4. Recommended: restrict the key to the Places API (New). Do not add an HTTP-referrer restriction; the requests come from your server, so use an IP restriction or none.

Google's free monthly credit comfortably covers review syncing for a normal site; a sync is one Place Details request.

Find your Place ID

Use Google's Place ID finder and search for your business. It looks like ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4.

Connect

On Sources, choose Google, paste the Place ID and the API key, and save. The key can also live site-wide in Settings → Google Places API key, shared by several locations.

The five-review window

Google's API returns the five most relevant reviews per request. Every tool that uses the official API has this window; tools showing more are scraping, which violates Google's terms and breaks without warning. Range Trust stores everything it sees and never deletes on sync, so your local library grows past five over time as different reviews rotate through the window. The aggregate rating and total count shown in widget headers always come from your full profile figures, not just the stored reviews.

If you have an existing archive (for example a Takeout export), import it once and let sync take over from there.

Language

Review text is requested in your site's locale by default. To force a language, add a language setting on the source (a BCP-47 code like en or de).

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