Facebook reviews API documentation

We provide a simple to setup REST API that returns reviews in JSON format. Before integrating the API you should be aware of the following:

  • The Facebook API returns 5 reviews per request.
  • The order in which reviews are returned is by relevancy. This order is determined by facebook and cannot be modified
  • You can get all reviews from a single place by using the cursor parameter. Unlike other integrations, the facebook api doesn't support the offset parameter to paginate the results. Instead the pages need to be iterated one by one. To do this, each response comes with a next_page_cursor field. You can use the value is field to pass it as the cursor parameter in a new request to get the next page in the results.
  • Facebook doesn't use a star based rating anymore. Places are either recommended or not. You can find this in the response as the recommends_rating field. The value of this field will be either null, recommends or doesnt_recommend

To get reviews from Wextractor you will need to perform GET requests against the https://wextractor.com/api/v1/reviews/facebook endpoint.

Reviews endpoint parameters:

Parameter Required Description Example
auth_token Required Your API token for authentication. Once you register to Wextractor you can extract this key from your account's setting page. -
id Required A textual identifier that uniquely identifies a place in Facebook. This identifier is a part of the path that appears in the url for the place in Facebook. For example, if the url for the place in Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/metmuseum/ the identifier is: metmuseum metmuseum
cursor Optional This parameter defines the cursor to use for pagination. After getting the first page of results without sending the cursor parameter. The response will include a next_page_cursor field. To get the following page of results you need to create a new request adding the value of that field as the cursor parameter. -

Example usage:

https://wextractor.com/api/v1/reviews/facebook?auth_token=XXXX&id=metmuseum

Example response:

      {
        "reviews": [
            {
                "reviewer": "Andrew Ballard",
                "id": "metmuseum-1584235732",
                "recommends_rating": "recommends",
                "text": "Such an amazing place. It is very large though so allow yourself plenty of time. Also, plan what you want to see as there is so much amazing items. Even the shops is an adventure",
                "datetime": "2020-03-15 01:28:52",
                "avatar": "https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/cp0/p50x50/89869888_10216859192652114_7576716695515955200_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=dbb9e7&_nc_oc=AQm6gA3Ugj9C1HeVkAox4sfU9J9Axd7GBLYHQqRc_2HnWVJwOYU1hq-fB7NSPB-naDU&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=20ebe4b7bd6e9ba461462722c928ba08&oe=5EA044F8"
            },
            {
                "reviewer": "Jata Estep",
                "id": "metmuseum-1583664426",
                "recommends_rating": "recommends",
                "text": "beautiful and alot of history! staff is great. I cant say enough good stuff about this museum.",
                "datetime": "2020-03-08 10:47:06",
                "avatar": "https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/cp0/p50x50/87359748_10157629186835845_2404554285527334912_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=dbb9e7&_nc_oc=AQmR6oUYivN5UYoTNA1Vsj-PlbWI5yqFZzMHsfs6qHFGrVmcmvtYLgPeEgXxLapBs4E&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=4f644ab8014e46b22898d0d756e5c880&oe=5EA0E2D5"
            },
            {
                "reviewer": "Cathy Counselman Kelly",
                "id": "metmuseum-1561936407",
                "recommends_rating": "doesnt_recommend",
                "text": "bad.",
                "datetime": "2019-06-30 23:13:27",
                "avatar": "https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/cp0/p50x50/70950453_10157952388378311_385171082262347776_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=dbb9e7&_nc_oc=AQmiOySYVYvixT49zc2DZMT-4eBcjqhm4EQuYZ7r4GTvqGp6zkoI7Nw9oKbTO4JVKV4&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=1c7eb2a8f3e6bc7ff680be2fbd148101&oe=5EA1886F"
            },
            {
                "reviewer": "Julia Mainwaring",
                "id": "metmuseum-1583181660",
                "recommends_rating": "recommends",
                "text": "Huge amount of art and pieces in show - fabulous setting and architecture. Helpful friendly staff and very little in the way of queues.",
                "datetime": "2020-03-02 20:41:00",
                "avatar": "https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/cp0/p50x50/67163620_10157704253986614_487895215240118272_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=dbb9e7&_nc_oc=AQkf3lP10ySIiFZ_i8qbaMgqUHe5On8rljHl8ra682kpqFs4z8qYSRG-T_1f4jyniq8&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=130897f3471a272c724db96467ac8045&oe=5E9F698D"
            },
            {
                "reviewer": "Eva Landry",
                "id": "metmuseum-1570681756",
                "recommends_rating": null,
                "text": "Magical place! A way to travel in time!",
                "datetime": "2019-10-10 04:29:16",
                "avatar": "https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/cp0/p50x50/75226418_2606758136078462_6551325186677800960_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_sid=dbb9e7&_nc_oc=AQnHZxPuzTU2BX71v3wVMeemWhgSriivj71jZzfPMTGIsL-xgsK6I9RZIFaktVdTqGs&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=dcf0626e0458f778ebc22d8a20be3420&oe=5EA18DD2"
            }
        ],
        "next_page_cursor": "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"
    }

Example of getting all reviews in python:

            import requests
            import json

            auth_token = 'your token'
            place_id = 'metmuseum'

            url = 'https://wextractor.com/api/v1/reviews/facebook?auth_token=' + auth_token + '&id=' + place_id

            all_reviews = []
            reviews = json.loads(requests.get(url).text)
            all_reviews += reviews['reviews']

            while reviews['next_page_cursor']:
                page_url = url + '&cursor=' + reviews['next_page_cursor']
                reviews = json.loads(requests.get(page_url).text)
                all_reviews += reviews['reviews']
                print(reviews)