Export Google Reviews: Download All Your Reviews to a CSV
July 5, 2026
If you’ve searched for a ‘Google review exporter’ or a ‘review downloader,’ you already know what you want: your reviews out of Google’s interface and into a file you can actually work with — sort, filter, chart, archive, or drop into a report. What you probably don’t want is to copy and paste hundreds of reviews by hand.
This guide covers what a review exporter actually does, the two real ways to export (a free official one and a one-click one), what ends up in the file, and how to pick the right approach for what you’re trying to accomplish.
The short answer
A Google review exporter pulls every review off your Business Profile into a spreadsheet — connect the profile, click export, download the CSV.
A review exporter (or ‘downloader’) turns the reviews scattered across your Google Business Profile into a single, sortable CSV file — reviewer name, rating, date, review text, and your responses, all in tidy columns. TrueReview does this in one click and, unlike Google’s own export, pulls Yelp, Facebook, Tripadvisor, and 20+ other platforms into the same file. There’s a free official route too (Google Takeout), which is fine for a raw one-off backup but leaves you cleanup work.
What a Google Review Exporter Does
Google shows your reviews one at a time inside your Business Profile, which is fine for reading and replying but useless for analysis. There’s no built-in ‘download all reviews’ button in the profile interface. A review exporter closes that gap: it reads every review on your connected profile and writes them out to a structured file — almost always a CSV (comma-separated values) that opens in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers.
Once your reviews are in a spreadsheet, the things that were impossible inside Google become trivial:
Analyze trends
Sort by rating, chart review volume over time, or track how sentiment shifts month to month — the kind of reporting Google’s interface simply doesn’t offer.
Back up your history
Keep an offline copy of every review in case of a profile suspension, an accidental deletion, or a business transition where the profile changes hands.
Combine platforms
Merge Google reviews with Yelp, Facebook, Tripadvisor, and other sources into one file so you’re looking at your whole reputation, not one silo.
Feed reports & dashboards
Pipe the CSV into a BI tool, a client report, or an internal dashboard for ongoing stakeholder reporting.
The Two Real Ways to Export Google Reviews
There are exactly two legitimate approaches. Everything else you’ll find (browser scrapers, copy-paste macros, sketchy ‘downloader’ sites) either violates Google’s terms, breaks constantly, or risks your data. Stick to these two.
Option 1: Google Takeout (free, official, raw)
Google Takeout is Google’s own data-export tool, and it can include the data tied to your Business Profile. It’s free and it’s the official route. The trade-off: the output is a raw data dump, not a clean review spreadsheet, and it only covers Google — not Yelp, Facebook, or any other platform. It’s a reasonable choice for a one-off backup if you don’t mind doing cleanup afterward.
Option 2: A one-click exporter like TrueReview
A purpose-built exporter connects to your Business Profile and produces a clean, analysis-ready CSV in seconds — every field already in its own column, no cleanup required. Because it’s built for reviews specifically, it also pulls your other platforms (Yelp, Facebook, Tripadvisor, BBB, Zillow, and more) into the same file, so one export gives you your entire review footprint rather than just Google.
Does Google Takeout Export Business Profile Reviews?
The short answer
Not the reviews customers left on your Business Profile. Google Takeout exports the reviews you have written as a Google user, along with other account data — but it does not produce a clean file of the inbound reviews on the business you manage. To download those, you need an exporter that connects to your Business Profile and reads them directly.
This trips up a lot of people, because Takeout is the obvious first stop — it’s Google’s own official export tool and it’s free. The catch is what it’s scoped to. Takeout hands you the data tied to your personal Google account: the reviews you’ve posted, your Maps history, and similar. The reviews that actually matter for reputation work — the ones your customers left on your Business Profile — aren’t part of that personal export in a clean, per-review format. For those, connect the profile to a purpose-built exporter and pull them into a CSV in one step.
Google Takeout
Exports data tied to your personal Google account — the reviews you wrote, not the reviews on the business you manage. Free and official, but a raw dump that needs cleanup and only covers Google.
A connected exporter
Reads your Business Profile directly and writes every inbound customer review to a clean CSV — reviewer, rating, date, text, and your reply in columns. Pulls Yelp, Facebook, and 20+ other platforms into the same file.
Export your Google reviews in the next 5 minutes
TrueReview works as a one-click Google review exporter: connect your Business Profile, click Export Reviews, and download a clean CSV with every review, rating, date, and response already in columns. The 14-day free trial includes full export access. Start your trial and pull your first export today. Full walkthrough in our guide to exporting Google reviews.
What Ends Up in the File
A good export gives you every field you’d want to work with, one review per row:
Reviewer name — who left the review. Star rating — 1 to 5, so you can sort and average. Review text — the full written content. Date posted — for tracking volume and recency over time. Source platform — Google, Yelp, Facebook, etc., when you’ve connected more than one. Your response — the reply you posted, if any, so you can audit reply rates and coverage.
One thing that doesn’t come through in a CSV: the photos and videos attached to reviews. Those are hosted by Google and aren’t part of a text export — to keep a specific review’s video or photo, open it in Google Maps and save it directly.
How to Export Google Reviews to Excel or CSV
Every export lands as a CSV, and a CSV opens natively in Excel, Google Sheets, orNumbers — no conversion step required. The five moves below take you from a rawexport file to a clean, sortable sheet you can actually report from.
1
Run the export and grab the CSV
Export your reviews (one-click with TrueReview, or via Google Takeout for the raw Google-only dump). You’ll get a .csv file — the universal format Excel, Google Sheets, and Numbers all read directly.
2
Open it in your spreadsheet app
Excel: double-click the file, or File → Open. Google Sheets: File → Import → Upload, then choose “Replace spreadsheet.” Numbers: double-click to open. Each review becomes one row, with columns for reviewer name, rating, date, text, source, and your response.
3
Fix encoding if characters look garbled
If names or emoji show up as odd symbols in Excel, the file needs UTF-8. Use Data → From Text/CSV, then set File Origin to “65001: Unicode (UTF-8)” before loading. Google Sheets handles UTF-8 automatically, so this step is Excel-only.
4
Format the sheet for analysis
Turn the range into a table (Excel: Ctrl+T; Sheets: Format → Convert to table) so you get filter dropdowns on every column. Set the date column to a real date format so you can sort chronologically, and freeze the header row.
5
Sort, filter, or pivot
Sort by rating to isolate 1- and 2-star reviews, filter by date to see the last quarter, or drop the data into a pivot table to chart review volume and average rating over time. Save as .xlsx to keep the formatting for reuse.
Exporting Is Half the Job — Keep the Reviews Coming
An exporter is only as useful as the reviews you have to export. If your profile has been quiet for months, a fresh CSV just documents a stagnant file. The businesses that get real value from exporting are the ones with a steady stream of recent reviews to analyze — which means the inbound side matters as much as the export.
That’s the other half of what TrueReview does: automated review request software texts and emails every customer a one-tap Google review link after each visit or job, so by the time you run an export you have months of fresh, authentic reviews to work with. For the full playbook, see our guide to getting more Google reviews, and for where the exported data fits in the bigger picture, our guide to review management.
One tool to collect, monitor, and export your reviews
TrueReview automates compliant SMS and email review requests, monitors Google and 20+ platforms in one dashboard, drafts AI-assisted replies you approve, and exports your entire review history to CSV whenever you need it. Start a free 14-day trial — setup takes about 15 minutes.
FAQ
The most common questions about exporting and downloading Google reviews.
Is there a free Google review exporter?+
Yes — Google Takeout is the free, official route and can export the data tied to your Business Profile. The catch is that it’s a raw data dump rather than a clean spreadsheet, and it only covers Google. For a ready-to-analyze CSV across Google and other platforms, a purpose-built exporter like TrueReview is faster, though it’s a paid tool after the free trial.
Can I download all my Google reviews at once?+
Yes. That’s exactly what an exporter does — it pulls every review on the connected profile into a single file in one action, whether that’s 50 reviews or 5,000. There’s no per-review limit and no manual copying. Multi-location businesses can export all locations into one file.
What format do exported reviews come in?+
Almost always CSV (comma-separated values), which opens directly in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers. Each review is one row, with columns for reviewer name, rating, date, text, source platform, and your response. From there you can sort, filter, build pivot tables, or import into another tool.
Can a review exporter download reviews from Yelp or Facebook too?+
A Google-only tool like Google Takeout can’t — it’s limited to Google. A multi-platform exporter like TrueReview can: connect Yelp, Facebook, Tripadvisor, BBB, Zillow, and other profiles, and the export pulls them all into the same CSV so you see your whole review footprint at once.
Are browser-based Google review downloaders safe?+
Be cautious. Scraper extensions and ‘downloader’ sites often violate Google’s terms of service, break whenever Google changes its interface, and sometimes ask for risky account access. The two safe routes are Google’s official Takeout export and a legitimate connected tool that uses proper authorization. Stick to those.
Does exporting reviews remove them from Google?+
No. Exporting is read-only — it copies your reviews into a file and leaves everything on your Google Business Profile exactly as it was. You can export as often as you like without affecting the live reviews. Deleting a review is a separate action entirely, and only the reviewer or Google can remove one.
How do I export Google reviews?+
Connect your Google Business Profile to an exporter, then export in one action. With TrueReview: sign in, connect the profile, click Export Reviews, and download the CSV. Every review comes down at once — reviewer name, rating, date, text, and your response, each in its own column, ready to open in Excel or Google Sheets. The free Google Takeout route also exists, but it returns a raw account-level dump rather than a clean per-review file.
Is there a way to export Google reviews?+
Yes — two legitimate ways. Google Takeout is the free, official export tied to your Google account, but it’s a raw dump and Google-only. A purpose-built exporter like TrueReview connects to your Business Profile and produces an analysis-ready CSV across Google and 20+ other platforms in seconds. Avoid browser-scraper extensions — they break constantly and often violate Google’s terms.
Can I export Google reviews to Excel?+
Yes. Exports come as CSV, which opens directly in Excel — double-click the file or use Data → From Text/CSV (set File Origin to UTF-8 if any characters look off). Each review is one row with columns for name, rating, date, text, source, and your reply, so you can sort, filter, and build pivot tables immediately. Save as .xlsx to keep the formatting.
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