By Jim Ross · Builder, Cybertrickz · Last updated June 2026
Here is a frustration every business owner eventually hits: you have hundreds of Google reviews, you want them in a spreadsheet, and Google gives you no way to download them. There is no “export all” button in your Business Profile dashboard — you can read reviews one at a time, reply to them one at a time, but you cannot pull them out in bulk. For a shop with fifty reviews that is annoying; for a multi-location business with hundreds, it is a wall. This tool gets around that wall the legitimate way: it takes the official export Google already provides through Google Takeout and converts it into a clean, structured CSV — reviewer names, star ratings, dates, full review text, and your replies, all in columns you can sort and analyse. It runs entirely in your browser, so your review data is never uploaded anywhere, and it needs no API keys, no developer setup, and no scraping. Below is how it works, why the official route matters, and what you can actually do with the data once you have it.
What this tool does, and why the official route matters
The tool converts a Google Business Profile export into a usable CSV. You download your own review data from Google Takeout — Google’s official data-export service — which hands you the raw files, and this tool reads that export locally and turns it into a tidy spreadsheet with one row per review. That is the whole job: bridging the gap between the data Google will give you and the format you can actually work with, since Takeout delivers its export as JSON that is awkward to open in a spreadsheet on its own.
Why insist on the Takeout route rather than a scraper? Because it is the only method that is both yours by right and safe. Scraping reviews off Google Maps with a browser extension or a cloud service pulls data you do not own and frequently violates Google’s terms of service, which can get an IP banned. Takeout, by contrast, is Google formally giving you a copy of your own business’s data — no terms broken, nothing to ban. Pair that with the fact that this converter runs client-side, so your customer review data never passes through anyone else’s server, and you have a workflow that is both compliant and private. That combination is the point: you should not have to choose between getting your data and protecting it.
What you can do with exported reviews
Drop the CSV into a spreadsheet or BI tool to chart average rating over time, review volume by month, and response rate. A live picture of reputation beats scrolling reviews one by one in the dashboard.
With every review’s full text in one column, you can run sentiment scoring or theme extraction to find what customers consistently praise or complain about — patterns that are invisible when reviews are read individually.
Agencies and managers need monthly reports clients can read. A CSV pipes straight into report templates, so you present rating trends and highlighted quotes instead of screenshots of the reviews page.
Profiles get suspended, merged, or lost. Keeping a CSV copy of your full review history means a platform issue or accidental deletion never wipes out years of customer feedback you may need later.
If you manage several locations, exporting each and combining the CSVs gives you one dataset to compare branches side by side — something the Business Profile interface never shows you in one place.
Filter the spreadsheet for five-star reviews mentioning a product or service, and you have a ready shortlist of quotes to use on your site or marketing — sourced from real, dated, attributable feedback.
How to export your Google reviews to CSV, step by step
- Open Google Takeout. Go to Google Takeout and sign in with the Google account that manages your Business Profile. Takeout is Google’s official tool for downloading a copy of your data, so this is the account that actually owns the reviews — not a third-party login or a scraper connecting to your profile.
- Select only Google Business Profile. Click “Deselect all” so you are not exporting your entire Google account, then scroll down and tick only “Google Business Profile”. Narrowing the export to that one product keeps the download small and means you are not waiting on unrelated data like Photos or Drive to package up.
- Run the export and wait for it. Click “Next step”, choose your delivery method, and start the export. Google prepares the file in the background and emails you a download link when it is ready. Depending on how much data you have this can take anywhere from a few minutes to a while, so do not expect it instantly.
- Download and extract the ZIP. Open the link Google emails you, download the ZIP archive, and extract it on your computer. Inside you will find your Business Profile data folder, which contains your reviews in Google’s raw export format — usable, but not yet in a spreadsheet-friendly shape, which is the gap this tool fills.
- Load the folder into the tool. Come back to this page and use the file picker to select the extracted Takeout folder. Everything from here happens in your browser — the tool reads the export locally, so your review data is never uploaded. You will then see the businesses found in that export listed for you to choose from.
- Generate and download your CSV. Pick the business you want and run the extraction. The tool builds a clean CSV with one row per review — reviewer name, star rating, date, full review text, and your reply where one exists — ready to open in Excel, Google Sheets, or any analysis tool. Download it and your reviews are finally portable.
Source: Google provides bulk access to your own business data through Google Takeout; there is no native bulk “export reviews” option inside the Business Profile dashboard, which is why the Takeout export plus conversion is the standard route.
Select The Takeout Folder
Select Your Business
🎉 Your CSV is Ready!
Your Google reviews have been successfully converted to CSV format.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, completely free, with no account, no trial, and no limit on how many reviews you export. Many review-export tools charge per thousand reviews or lock the CSV behind a paid plan; this one does not, because the conversion runs in your browser and costs almost nothing to provide. You bring your own Google Takeout export, and the tool turns it into a spreadsheet at no cost, as many times as you need.
No. The Takeout folder you select is read and converted entirely inside your browser, so your reviews and customer data never leave your computer. You can confirm this in your browser's network inspector — the outbound request count stays at zero during conversion. For business owners handling customer feedback, that matters: the tool gives you the spreadsheet without you having to trust a third party with the underlying data.
Your own — the reviews on Business Profiles your Google account owns or manages. Because the data comes from your Takeout export, you can only export what Google already lets you access as the owner. This tool is not a scraper and cannot pull a competitor's reviews, which is deliberate: scraping other businesses' reviews off Google Maps typically violates Google's terms and risks your access being blocked. This route stays firmly on the right side of that line.
Each row represents one review and typically includes the reviewer's name, the star rating, the date, the full review text, and your reply if you posted one. That structure is what makes the data analysable: you can sort by rating, filter by date range, search the text for a product name, or count how many reviews you have actually responded to. Exactly which fields appear depends on what Google includes in your Takeout export.
Because Google does not offer a direct bulk export of reviews inside the Business Profile dashboard — there is no "download all" button there. Takeout is the official channel Google provides for getting a full copy of your data, so it is the legitimate source. The catch is that Takeout delivers the data in a raw format rather than a ready spreadsheet, which is the specific gap this tool fills by converting that export into a clean CSV.
No. Using Google Takeout to download your own business data is an official, Google-sanctioned process — you are exercising your right to a copy of your data, not circumventing anything. What does break the rules is scraping reviews from businesses you do not own using extensions or bots, which can violate Google's terms and get an IP banned. This tool deliberately works only from your own Takeout export, keeping the whole workflow compliant.
A Takeout export is a snapshot from the moment you run it, so it will not update on its own. When you want fresh data — say, for a monthly report — run a new Takeout export and convert it again. Some people schedule recurring Takeout exports so a new copy arrives automatically on a set interval, which removes the manual step if you are tracking review trends regularly rather than as a one-off.
Yes. If your Google account manages several locations, the Takeout export includes the businesses you manage, and the tool lets you pick which one to convert. To analyse them together, export and convert each location, then combine the CSVs in your spreadsheet. That consolidated view — every location's reviews in one dataset — is something the Business Profile interface does not give you, and it is one of the most useful reasons to export in the first place.
Google Takeout delivers your Business Profile data in a structured raw format inside a ZIP, which is complete but not convenient to open directly in a spreadsheet. This tool reads that export and outputs a standard CSV, which opens cleanly in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or any data tool. CSV is deliberately chosen because it is universal — nearly every analysis, reporting, or BI application can import it without any conversion on your side.
It works best on desktop, because the workflow involves downloading and extracting a ZIP from Google Takeout, which is more practical on a computer than a phone. The conversion step itself runs in any modern browser, but handling the Takeout archive — unzipping it and selecting the folder — is simply easier with a desktop file system. If you only have a phone, you can still do it, but expect the ZIP extraction to be the fiddly part.
Exporting other Google data too?
The same private, browser-based approach for your other exports.
Google has no "export all reviews" button. That isn't an oversight — and scraping them is a fast way to get banned.
The compliant route is Google Takeout: Google handing you your own data. Convert that export to CSV locally and you get every review in a spreadsheet without breaking a single term of service.