How to Export Your Reviews From Google, Facebook and Yelp

Short answer: Google lets you export your Business Profile data including reviews via Google Takeout. Facebook and Yelp are more limited. In all cases you can quote public reviews accurately with attribution — what you can't do is republish scraped data in bulk as if it were your own.

Reviews are the one marketing asset you earned and don't hold. That's an acceptable trade — the platform's independence is what makes them credible — but you should still have a copy, and you should be able to display your best ones anywhere.

Google

The full export: Google Takeout

1. Sign in with the account that manages the Business Profile.
2. Go to Google Takeout.
3. Deselect all, then select Google Business Profile (it may appear as Google My Business).
4. Choose your format and export. You'll get a download link by email, usually within minutes to hours.

The export includes your profile data and reviews as structured files. Useful for backup and analysis; not formatted for publishing.

The quick manual way

For a handful of reviews, open your profile's review list and copy the text, name, rating and date. Tedious past about twenty, fine for pulling your five best for a website.

The automated way

Google's Places API returns a limited number of reviews per place (typically up to five) and is billed per request. Tools like Kudo import your reviews for you and keep them updated, which is the practical option for most businesses.

Facebook

Facebook has no clean per-page review export. Options:

• Page data download: Meta Business Suite → your page's settings → download page data. Coverage of recommendations varies and has changed repeatedly over the years.
• Manual copy from the Reviews/Recommendations tab. For most pages this is what actually works.
• Screenshots for social use — fine for Stories, useless for a website (no text).

Yelp

Yelp does not provide a review export for business owners, and its terms restrict scraping and republishing review content. You can:

• Quote individual reviews with attribution, in line with Yelp's guidance for businesses.
• Use their official badges and widgets where available.
• Copy your own favourites manually for internal reference.

TripAdvisor, Booking and Others

Most hospitality platforms offer widgets and badges rather than raw data export, and their terms limit what you can republish. Widgets are the sanctioned route; manual quoting with attribution is generally accepted.

What You're Allowed To Do With Them

Yes:

• Quote a public review accurately, with the reviewer's displayed name, on your own site or marketing.
• Say where it came from ("Google review, March 2026").
• Curate which ones you feature.
• Keep a private copy for your records.

No:

• Edit the text so it says something different.
• Attach a real name to text you wrote.
• Claim an average rating you don't have.
• Bulk-scrape and republish a platform's review corpus as your own content.
• Use a reviewer's photo without permission.

If you want to go further — a photo of the customer, a video, their full name and business — ask. It takes one message and it's the difference between a quote and a proper testimonial.

Why Bother Exporting At All

Platform risk. Profiles get suspended, merged, or lost in a location change. It happens to real businesses and the reviews are gone with it.

You want them where customers actually look. Your Instagram bio, your invoices, your website. Reviews that only exist on Google reach people who were already searching for you.

Analysis. Reading a hundred reviews in a spreadsheet surfaces patterns you'd never notice one at a time — the same complaint five times, the service everyone praises that you barely promote.

Continuity. If you rebrand, move, or change platforms, your history is worth keeping.

A Simpler Route

Manual export is fine once. Keeping it current is the part nobody does. Tools that connect to your Google profile and sync new reviews automatically solve the maintenance problem — which is the real one, since a review page that's six months stale is worse than none.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I download my Google reviews as a spreadsheet?
Google Takeout gives you structured data files you can convert. There's no one-click CSV of reviews in the profile interface.

Does exporting delete anything from Google?
No. Export is a copy.

Can I move reviews from Google to another platform?
No. Reviews belong to the platform and the reviewer. You can display quotes, but the review itself can't be transferred.

Is scraping reviews legal?
It depends on jurisdiction and the platform's terms, and most terms prohibit it. Quoting individual reviews with attribution is a different thing and is standard practice.

What happens if a reviewer deletes their review?
It disappears from the platform. If you're displaying a cached copy elsewhere, take it down — displaying a review the author has retracted is not a position you want to defend.

Import Once, Stay Current

Kudo connects to your Google Business Profile, imports your reviews, and keeps your page updated — so your best reviews live somewhere you control as well as somewhere you don't.

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