Google places reviews limit?

The Google Places API has a limit on the number of reviews that can be retrieved in a single request. This limit is set by Google to prevent abuse of their services and to ensure fair usage by all developers.

By default, the Google Places API returns up to 5 reviews for a particular place. If you need to retrieve more than 5 reviews, you can use the `pagetoken` parameter to paginate through the results and retrieve additional reviews.

Here is an example of how you can use the `pagetoken` parameter to retrieve more than 5 reviews:

$place_id = 'YOUR_PLACE_ID';
$api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY';
 
$url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=' . $place_id . '&fields=name,rating,review&key=' . $api_key;
 
$response = file_get_contents($url);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
 
$reviews = $data['result']['reviews'];
 
if(isset($data['result']['next_page_token'])){
    $next_page_token = $data['result']['next_page_token'];
 
    $url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=' . $place_id . '&fields=name,rating,review&key=' . $api_key . '&pagetoken=' . $next_page_token;
 
    $response = file_get_contents($url);
    $data = json_decode($response, true);
 
    $additional_reviews = $data['result']['reviews'];
 
    $all_reviews = array_merge($reviews, $additional_reviews);
} else {
    $all_reviews = $reviews;
}
 
foreach($all_reviews as $review){
    echo $review['text'] . '<br>';
}

In this code snippet, we first make a request to the Google Places API to retrieve the initial set of reviews for a specific place. If the response contains a `next_page_token`, we make a second request to fetch additional reviews and merge them with the initial set. Finally, we iterate through all the reviews and display them on the page.

By using the `pagetoken` parameter, you can overcome the default limit of 5 reviews and retrieve all the reviews for a particular place. Just make sure to handle the pagination logic properly in your code to avoid hitting any rate limits imposed by Google.