Most review scrapers answer one question: what do people say about this place? The Google Maps Contributor Reviews API flips the axis and answers the harder one: what else has this person reviewed? Feed it a single contributor ID and it returns that reviewer's entire public Google Maps history as structured JSON.

What you get

One row per review, each carrying the rating, the review text, the date, likes, and the place reviewed with its GPS coordinates, plus the reviewer's Local Guide profile: level, points, and total contributions. String the coordinates together and you have the reviewer's geographic footprint, which is where fake-review patterns start to show.

Who uses it

Trust-and-safety teams vetting suspicious five-star clusters, reputation researchers checking whether a rival's reviews come from real locals, and data journalists studying how review activity behaves. It is public data, so use it proportionately.

Run it

Paste a contributorId in the Apify Console, set maxResultsPerContributor, and export JSON, CSV, or Excel. Start from Get a reviewer's full review history or Vet a reviewer for fake-review signals. Over MCP the Actor becomes a tool that Claude, Claude Code, or Cursor can call directly.

Related APIs

Pair it with the Google Maps Reviewer Geo Profile API, the Google Maps Places API, and the Yelp Reviews API.