🔍 Google Review Removal Checker, Change Tracker & Extractor

Did Google delete your client's 5-star review? Find out instantly.

The only tool on Apify that checks whether a specific Google Maps review has been removed, hidden, or is still live — and extracts the full review data in the process.

No headless browsers. No Playwright. No Puppeteer. Just pure HTTP requests that are 10x faster and 10x cheaper than any browser-based scraper.

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❓ What Problem Does This Solve?

Google silently removes reviews all the time — sometimes legitimate ones. If you manage Google Business Profiles for clients, you need to know:

• Was that 5-star review deleted? Detect when Google's algorithm flags a legitimate review as spam.
• Did the negative review finally disappear? After reporting a fake or policy-violating review, confirm it was actually taken down.
• Did a reviewer change their rating or text? Compare extracted data between runs to catch when a 1-star review gets updated to 3 stars, or when review text is edited.
• Are my client's reviews still live? Run periodic sweeps to catch unexpected deletions before your client notices.

Unlike every other Google Reviews scraper on Apify, this Actor doesn't scrape all reviews from a business page. Instead, it takes a list of specific review URLs and tells you the exact status of each one: ACTIVE, REMOVED, or UNKNOWN.

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🎯 Who Is This For?

🏢 Reputation Management Agencies

You reported a fake 1-star review to Google weeks ago. Did they actually remove it? Stop manually checking — feed your reported review URLs into this Actor and get instant confirmation. Automate it on a schedule and never miss a removal again.

📈 Local SEO Professionals

Google's review filter sometimes removes legitimate reviews during algorithm updates. Monitor your client's most important reviews to catch false-positive deletions early so you can appeal immediately.

🏪 Multi-Location Business Owners

Track reviews across dozens or hundreds of Google Business Profiles. Set up a weekly scheduled run to verify that critical reviews (positive or negative) haven't disappeared overnight.

🕵️ Competitive Intelligence Teams

Monitor a competitor's suspicious 5-star reviews to see if Google's spam detection eventually catches them. Track the lifecycle of reviews that look fake or incentivized.

📊 Review Monitoring SaaS Platforms

Build review status monitoring into your product. Use this Actor's API to power real-time dashboards that alert clients when reviews change status.

⚖️ Legal & Compliance Teams

Need proof that a defamatory review was removed after a takedown request? This Actor provides timestamped verification with full review metadata.

🔄 Review Change Detection

A disgruntled customer updated their 1-star review to 3 stars after you resolved the issue — but did the text change too? Schedule periodic runs and compare the extracted star ratings, review text, and owner replies against your stored data to detect any edits automatically.

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⚡ Why This Actor Over Others?

Feature	This Actor	Browser-Based Scrapers
Speed	50-100 reviews/minute	5-10 reviews/minute
Cost	Fractions of a cent per run	10-50x more expensive
Checks specific review URLs	✅ Yes	❌ No (scrape all reviews)
Detects removed reviews	✅ REMOVED status	❌ No way to tell
Extracts full review data	✅ Stars, text, replies, dates	⚠️ Varies
Handles server errors safely	✅ Returns UNKNOWN	❌ Crashes or gives false results
Auto-retries on CAPTCHA/403	✅ Smart proxy rotation	❌ Manual intervention
Survives Apify restarts	✅ Resumes from checkpoint	❌ Starts over

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🔗 Supported URL Formats

Paste any of these URL types and the Actor handles everything automatically:

1. Review Data URLs — /maps/reviews/data=... The direct permalink to a specific review on a business profile.

2. Contributor Profile URLs — /maps/contrib/.../place/... The link to a review from a user's public contribution page.

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📊 Output Fields

For every URL you provide, the Actor returns a rich JSON object:

Field	Type	Description
url	string	The review URL that was checked
status	string	"ACTIVE" = review is live, "REMOVED" = deleted/hidden, "UNKNOWN" = server error occurred
reviewer_name	string | null	The public name of the reviewer
review_stars	integer | null	Star rating (1 to 5)
review_text	string | null	Full review text (auto-translated to English if needed)
review_text_original	string | null	Original text before translation
review_date	string | null	Relative date posted (e.g. "3 months ago")
review_language	string | null	Detected language code (e.g. "es", "en")
business_name	string | null	Name of the Google Business Profile
business_address	string | null	Full address of the business
owner_reply	string | null	The business owner's response text
owner_reply_date	string | null	Relative date of the owner's reply
text_snippet	string | null	Human-readable summary of what happened
error	string | null	Error details (only if status is "UNKNOWN")
timestamp	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the check was performed

Example Output (Active Review)

{
  "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/114972551601633519894/place/...",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "reviewer_name": "John Doe",
  "review_stars": 5,
  "review_text": "This place has amazing coffee and great service!",
  "review_text_original": null,
  "review_date": "3 months ago",
  "review_language": "en",
  "business_name": "Awesome Cafe",
  "business_address": "123 Main St, City, ST 12345, United States",
  "owner_reply": "Thank you for the kind words!",
  "owner_reply_date": "3 months ago",
  "text_snippet": "This place has amazing coffee and great service!",
  "error": null,
  "timestamp": "2024-05-15T14:32:01.123456+00:00"
}

Example Output (Removed Review)

{
  "url": "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7...",
  "status": "REMOVED",
  "reviewer_name": null,
  "review_stars": null,
  "review_text": null,
  "review_text_original": null,
  "review_date": null,
  "review_language": null,
  "business_name": "STG Auto Group of Montclair",
  "business_address": "10477 Central Ave, Montclair, CA 91763, United States",
  "owner_reply": null,
  "owner_reply_date": null,
  "text_snippet": "Review block missing from RPC data. Review removed.",
  "error": null,
  "timestamp": "2024-05-15T14:32:05.789012+00:00"
}

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💡 Common Workflows

1. One-Time Bulk Check

Paste hundreds of review URLs into the input and run once to get a full status report. Export the results as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

2. Scheduled Monitoring

Set up an Apify Schedule to run the Actor daily or weekly. Combine with Apify's webhook integrations to get Slack, email, or API notifications when a review status changes from ACTIVE to REMOVED.

3. API Integration

Call this Actor programmatically via the Apify API to integrate review monitoring directly into your existing CRM, dashboard, or SaaS product.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("scraperpro/google-review-tracker").call(run_input={
    "reviewsToCheck": [
        "https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/114972551601633519894/place/...",
        "https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m8!14m7..."
    ]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if item["status"] == "REMOVED":
        print(f"⚠️ Review removed: {item['url']}")

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📈 Performance & Cost

Because this Actor uses pure HTTP requests instead of headless browsers:

• Speed: 50-100 reviews per minute (depending on proxy speed and concurrency settings)
• Cost: Fractions of a cent per run. A standard $5/month Apify plan can handle tens of thousands of review checks.
• Memory: Runs on minimal memory (256MB). No browser overhead.

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🛡️ Reliability & Error Handling

• 403/Rate Limits: Automatically retries with exponential backoff, then rotates to a fresh proxy IP.
• 500/Server Errors: Retries up to 3 times, then safely returns status: "UNKNOWN" with the error details — never a false REMOVED.
• Apify Restarts/Aborts: Checkpoints progress to Key-Value Store. Restarted runs resume exactly where they left off without re-checking already processed URLs.

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👨‍💻 Support & Maintenance

This Actor is actively maintained by an expert scraping team. If Google changes their API structures, we patch the Actor within 24-48 hours. For bugs or feature requests, use the Issues tab.

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