Display Reviews And Ratings Of A Place With jQuery And Google Maps

Google Reviews is a small and easy jQuery plugin which embeds Google reviews and ratings of a matched place into the webpage using Google Places API.

See also:

• Display google places API Data Using jQuery - google-places.js

How to use it:

1. Load the necessary jQuery library and Google Places API in the document. DO NOT FORGET TO SET YOUR OWN API KEY! You can create an API key here.

<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&libraries=places&key=YourGoogleAPIKeyHere"></script>

2. Load the jQuery google-reviews plugin's files in the document.

<script src="jquery-google-reviews.js" defer></script>
<link href="jquery-google-reviews.css" rel="stylesheet">

3. The plugin needs an id to interact with, best with an empty div.

<div id="google-reviews"></div>

4. Call the function on the DIV element and insert the placeId into the JavaScript as follow. You can find a placeID here.

$("#google-reviews").googlePlaces({
  placeId: 'ChIJZa6ezJa8j4AR1p1nTSaRtuQ'
});

5. All configuration options to customize the Google reviews and ratings.

$("#google-reviews").googlePlaces({

  // place ID
  placeId: 'ChIJZa6ezJa8j4AR1p1nTSaRtuQ',

  // header content
  header: "<h3>Google Reviews</h3>",

  // footer content
  footer: '',

  // maximum number of reviews
  maxRows: 6,

  // minimum number of ratings
  minRating: 4,

  // localize month names
  months: ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"],

  // break length
  text_break_length: "90",

  // shorten names
  shorten_names: true,

  // more reviews button url
  moreReviewsButtonUrl: '',
  
  // button label
  moreReviewsButtonLabel: 'Show More Reviews',
  
  // write review button url
  writeReviewButtonUrl: '',
  
  // button label
  writeReviewButtonLabel: 'Write New Review',

  // show review datte
  showReviewDate: false,
  
  // show profile picture
  showProfilePicture: true
  
});

Changelog:

2021-09-11

• JS Update

v1.3.2 (2020-10-11)

• fix: apply prettier rules

v1.3.1 (2020-05-29)

• show review dates

202-01-29

• cleanup

2019-12-06

• v1.3.0: added option to show profile picture

2019-07-13

• v1.2.4: refactor

2019-07-10

• adds sort by timestamp

2019-07-07

• renders empty if no reviews found

2019-04-04

• Updated for NPM

2019-04-01

• Update with "show more reviews" and "write a review" feature

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by simonneutert. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.