In your app
A controller answers a route on your app: it callsgetGoogleReview() and returns the answer.
Add the controller
app/controllers/get_google_review_controller.ts
Add the route
start/routes.ts
Call it
Terminal
node ace serve running, it prints its answer as JSON.Find the id
id is the document’s _id, from a list. Ask the list for only the fields you need: each row is a document’s id and those fields.
AdonisJS
row.id as id. Drafts: list with { aposMode: 'draft' } to get the draft’s id (Find an id).
Required parameters
Required parameters
Optional parameters
Optional parameters
Optional. Leave it out and the site uses
"published". published (the default) or draft. Drafts need a credential that may see them: an API key with the type’s write scope (content:<type>:write), or a signed-in editor. The public and a key with only the read scope get 403. One of draft, published.Optional. Leave it out (or pass
null) and it isn’t sent: the site’s default applies. The locale to read or write, e.g. en (default: the site’s default locale).Returns
Returns
A
GoogleReview. GoogleReview content type. Read its properties (googleReview.title): each says whether the site always sends it. The example answer is the site’s wire JSON: one key differs from the property names (_id → id).Always sent. Its title: the name it goes by in every list, and the heading of its page where it has one.
Always sent. The URL name: lowercase words joined by hyphens (letters outside a–z, even emoji, are kept).
Always sent. The document’s id. On a type with drafts it ends in its locale and mode (
…:en:published, …:en:draft): the part before the first colon is its aposDocId, shared by both copies. The {_id} the type’s routes take.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Set when Google returned no reviewer name. The frontend shows a generic label + initial avatar.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Rating (1–5).Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Review text.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Review date. Format: an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD).Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Hand-curation flag. The widget can be set to show only featured reviews.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Select whether this content is public or private. One of public, loginRequired; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. The reviewer’s Google avatar URL, stored as-is (not downloaded). The frontend renders it directly and falls back to a lettered avatar if missing or stale. When set, a URL; empty or null when not.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. The business’s public reply to this review, if any.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Google moderates owner replies asynchronously: PENDING until reviewed, then APPROVED or REJECTED. Synced from the Business Profile API; blank for manual rows or replies predating moderation visibility.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. The policy reason Google gave when it rejected the owner reply, if any.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. A reply drafted in the Google Business Dashboard and not yet pushed to Google. Managed by the dashboard’s Review & push flow, never edited here.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. What the staged reply will do when pushed: “reply” (create/update the owner reply) or “delete” (remove it). Blank when nothing is staged.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Permalink to the review on Google, when the provider supplies one. When set, a URL; empty or null when not.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. Source. One of manual, places-api, business-profile, demo; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. The review’s stable Google resource id — the de-duplication key set by a sync. Leave blank for manual entries.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. The Google Business Profile location this review belongs to (bare location id) — set by the Business Profile sync; ties the review to its gbp-location mirror row and the dashboard’s Reviews section.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. In the archive: kept, but out of every list and off the site until it is restored. false (or null) for a live document.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. When it was created (ISO 8601). Format: an ISO 8601 date and time.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. When it last changed (ISO 8601). Format: an ISO 8601 date and time.Sometimes sent:
undefined when the site leaves it out, and it can be null. The draft’s preview share key, while its share link is on: the link is the draft’s _url with aposShareKey and aposShareId (the draft’s _id) in its query. Absent otherwise, and on published documents.Errors
Errors
Nothing to catch: the SDK retries what is safe, and throws the rest as the classes below. Your exception handler turns them into your app’s own answers, once for every call (see Map SDK errors to responses); catch only what you want to react to here.
The site refused what was sent:
errors lists each field’s problem, siteMessage the first.Retried first: No. Read: errors (field → messages), siteMessage.The API key is missing or refused (malformed, revoked, expired), or a signature its signing mode needs is missing or stale.Retried first: No. Read:
siteMessage, errorName, data.The key may not do this: a scope it lacks, or an address outside its allowlist.
siteMessage names it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage, errorName, data.Nothing matches, or the caller may not see it.Retried first: No. Read:
siteMessage, errorName, data.The site failed. Its logs say why.Retried first: No (only a 502, 503 or 504 is retried). Read:
siteMessage, errorName, data.No answer: DNS, a refused connection, TLS, or the timeout (15 s per attempt by default).Retried first: Yes, after 0.5 s then 1 s. Read:
reason, neverConnected.The client refused to send it (e.g. a path segment of
..); the site never saw it.Retried first: No. Read: reason (what to change).Any other status, or a success whose JSON doesn’t match this SDK version’s types (update the SDK).Retried first: No. Read:
reason, status.sites.forSite('acme') named a slug config/attract.ts doesn’t list (with the keys in the database: no row in attract_api_keys).Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: message, slug.Behavior
- Access: an API key with
content:google-reviews:read(or a master above it:content:google-reviews:all,content:all,admin:all) reads the published documents; drafts (aposMode=draft, or a draft_id) needcontent:google-reviews:write(or a master above it). A signed-in person reads as far as their own permissions allow, and anyone else reads the published documents’ public fields. - Rate limit: the key’s own reads-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 600); over it, 429 with
Retry-After. The client waits and retries for you; you seeRateLimitedonly if that runs out. - Retries: a read is safe to repeat: the client retries it on no answer, a 502/503/504 and a 429.
- Timeout: 15 s per attempt by default; raise
timeout(milliseconds) inconfig/attract.tsfor longer.
More examples
Test it
It calls the controller above with the SDK faked:fakeAttract() puts the fake in the container for this one test, and it answers every call with a valid example, so nothing leaves your machine and no key is read. Save it as tests/unit/google_reviews_get_google_review.spec.ts, then run your tests:
tests/unit/google_reviews_get_google_review.spec.ts
Terminal
googleReviews.getGoogleReview with factories.GoogleReview({...}), the fields you give over a valid example.
tests/unit/google_reviews_get_google_review_answers.spec.ts
Related
List a Google review’s locales
site.googleReviews().getGoogleReviewLocales()List Google reviews
site.googleReviews().listGoogleReviews()Create a Google review
site.googleReviews().createGoogleReview()Replace a Google review
site.googleReviews().replaceGoogleReview()Delete a Google review
site.googleReviews().deleteGoogleReview()Update a Google review
site.googleReviews().updateGoogleReview()GET /google-review/{_id}
The endpoint this calls, in the API reference: the HTTP request and answer, and every rule the site checks.