Get a review link with Google My Business API - google-my-business-api

Is there a way to get the link of a review using the GMB APIs?
The closest to what I need is this:
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113400145807499011881/place/ChIJSRSm38NhLxMRBgg2EGMZqKc/
Where the first ID (113400145807499011881) is the ID of the user who left the review, and the second ID (ChIJSRSm38NhLxMRBgg2EGMZqKc) is the place ID.
However, the review object returned by the API does not seem to contain enough information to obtain the reviewer user ID.
Thank you,
Guido

I was searching for a way to get the url to the review overview for a specific location via the API too.
After checking the links, IDs ect. in the API Responses and lots of documentations an tuturials i found NO way to get the link over tha API.
BUT a workarround with a few manual steps can help to find the link (I know that is not a final answer to the question, but maybe it is still helpfull)
go to google search, and search for you Location/ Company that contains the reviews
on the right side you should see a pannel that shows the current stars for your location and a link "xxxx Google-Rezensionen"
klick on this link and copy the url in the browser
(optional remove parameters like "&client" ect.
Check this youtube-video of the Step by Step Tuturial to see a tuturial how you can do this.

newReviewUrl is the Parameter if someone read this:
https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v4/accounts.locations#urlattributevalue

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How to add "Order Online" link on GMB using the API

[NOTE: This may be not the right place for this question. Can you please refer me to the right place if this is not.]
I know you can login to GMB, verify the business and than add the "Order Online" link from the GMB console.
We are an agency and expanding fast so we are trying to find out a way of adding our link to all our customer's GMB pages without needing to getting verified for each of them separately but rather using the API if possible.
Anyone here has experience doing this? I looked through the API, but can not find anything like this.
It is not possible to influence this attribute. See this article
In some cases, links to certain third-party booking services will appear automatically on business listings. These links cannot be edited in Google My Business.
If you want to remove or fix a link in your own listing, please contact the third-party provider’s support team or a technical contact to request they remove your data from the information they are sending Google.

Unable to locate my business in Google Places API

I'm currently attempting to create a link for my customers to leave a Google review. I have attempted to find my business via Places API but nothing shows up. My business is verified on Google. Can anyone help?
Hope you have created API key for the google place api,
Now just modify below link accordingly, then hopefully it will give the desired result.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?types=establishment&input=&key=
If you created your business as Service Area Business, it won't show up in Places API web service. In order to find place ID for SABs you have to use the place ID finder of Google My Business that is located at
https://developers.google.com/my-business/content/faq#how-to-find-placeid
When I search the 'David Grant Simpson Photography' in this place ID finder I get the place ID ChIJaUxp_09GiEgRpgCejm52hQg as shown in my screenshot
I hope this helps!

How to loop through modules, link topics, and LTI links

When we import content from our system to D2L, we create an LTI Link, a Quick Link given the LTI Link, and a Link Topic given the public URL from the Quick Link. This is all good, a nice traceable chain and relationship.
Now, I am in need to pull this same information out.
I can see a GET to /orgId/content/root will give me modules.
I can see a GET to /orgId/content/modules/moduleId/structure will give a array which includes Link Topics and Modules (and recursively more of the same).
However, I am stuck on obtaining LTI Links for the Link Topics. These are they 2 key abstractions for us.
I am further stuck on what exactly the Quick Link does for us. There is no way to GET a Quick Link.
Now, going the other way, I can see a GET to /lti/link/orgId will get me all the LTI Links in the course. But, there's no way to tell which Link Topic it's associated with.
Ditto for the Quick Link in this approach; I just don't know where this abstraction fits in.
Please advise. Thanks dearly.
A response has been posted in the Developer Community of Practice: https://community.brightspace.com/devcop/f_technical/how_to_loop_through_modules_link_topics_and_lti_links

Google Analytics Custom URL Reorting

I have used custom url builder to build custom url and submitted to different directories.
URL is
?utm_source=directory&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=DirectoryReferrals
Now i am stuck with reporting coz it shows source as "directory" thats what i need it to show but full referral part is showing as not set.
How can i get full url of the referral source? Need help as soon as possible.
Is there any way to get the url of the referral?
I think you may be misunderstanding the usage of the utm_source parameter in the context of custom campaigns. It wouldn't be used to get the source URL that you used when tagging your campaign, but rather it should show the source where the campaign is originating from, for example advertiser, site (eg. "google"), publication (eg. "newsletter", "billboard"). More information on campaigns can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863. Also some good info on why you are getting "not set": https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2820717?hl=en.
If you are trying to see where traffic is coming from, eg. www.google.com, www.facebook.com, then you wouldn't use custom campaigns for that.
Hope this helps.
I agree with Nyuen, you might have misunderstood the concept of UTM tracking code.
I would suggest that if you want to know that from which referral source you got the traffic then you can write it under UTM_SOURCE.
Suppose if you have promoted your post in the Facebook and Google, then in the UTM_SOURCE you can write Facebook there.
Example:
http://www.grazitti.com/resources/webinars/5-must-have-features-for-your-service-cloud-implementation.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Webinar_Tweet&utm_term=Service_Cloud&utm_campaign=Social
Hope this Works :)
You always able to find your refferal traffic under > Acquisition > referral even you tagged link with utm.
If it's not help, please upload some screenshot.

Find the number of times a tweet has been viewed

There have been quite a few number of start-up pertaining to analyzing Twitter data. There is CrowdBooster, then there is Klout, which use Twitter data to tell the user their True reach.
I have got the following two questions:
1) Is there a way to find out who has viewed one's tweet, or the number of people that have viewed a tweet. Crowdbooster claims to tell you how many impression one received per tweet. How do they do it?
2) Thousands and thousands of links are shared each day on Twitter. Can we find out which user has clicked the link in a tweet?
I have looked through Twitter API and some of the companies that have licensed Twitter's Firehose, but have not found anything that meet my needs.
Also, to give you a short answer to your 2nd question. Now that we've established that view analysis is impossible. Can you find out which user has clicked on that link, absolutely. And depending on what your talking about, user as far as the user who has clicked on the link or the user that has the link on their Twitter stream. Both are possible,
in the case of A, you would get the referring users IP address. Methods vary depending on language.
But what I think your asking for is scenario B, finding out which user has the link in their Twitter stream. This can be done by querying the link, the API response you will get can include tweet entities which will list all this information out for you and more. Open up a firehose with your link and watch what comes in.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods
1) Is there a way to find out who has viewed one's tweet, or the
number of people that have viewed a tweet. Crowdbooster claims to tell
you how many impression one received per tweet. How do they do it?
No, in the case of a view - this would be impossible. The tweet impression can happen in multiple silos. On the website, in a widget, in a mobile app. You can imagine that it's simply not possible to get the impression of a tweet on a view because of this reason and because unlike a click, there is no I viewed this tweet identifier sent when a view has been enacted. I spent a great deal of time researching for a way to get the tweet impression even based on a similar clicked link and this is not even possible. (edit: it's possible see the last paragraph) This brings us to question 2.
2) Thousands and thousands of links are shared each day on Twitter.
Can we find out which user has clicked the link in a tweet?
Yes, what these websites are mainly doing is analyzing links that you process through their website. If you can have a unique hash marker on a link then analysis becomes possible. Without a unique hash marker, Twitter will re-interrupt two of the same links in a exactly the same way, even in the case that it shortens your link to it's custom t.co wrapper.
This means the only reliable way to do tweet analysis is by including a unique link marker code on your tweet and analyze the the fact that somebody that has hit your server has clicked on that link.
There is a somewhat hidden Twitter API feature that helps you understand how popular a particular link is. That being the link count API .. http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=
Something really outside of the box you can do if your set on analyzing multiple versions of exactly the same link without using markers and if your also using the Streaming (firehose) would be to analyze the tweet views (using the link count API) on similar links that hit your server. The link that got the +1 boost in view is the one that hit your server. But that's about the extent of creative analysis you can get with your tweets and more specifically the links, as mentioned links are the only thing your really able to analyze when it comes to Twitter.
1) Is there a way to find out who has viewed one's tweet, or the number of people that have viewed a tweet. Crowdbooster claims to tell you how many impression one received per tweet. How do they do it?
Yes, sign up for Twitter Analytics https://analytics.twitter.com (free service provided by Twitter) and you can see how many people view (impressions) for each tweet and totals for specific dates or a date range.
2) Thousands and thousands of links are shared each day on Twitter. Can we find out which user has clicked the link in a tweet?
Yes, you can do this. Using a URL shortening service like Bitly.com you can track how many clicks you had from Twitter (only give out that Bitly link on Twitter to do this). But if you want more indept information you may need to create a tracking software, as I don't know of any available. To do that you would need the tracking software to track the link and find out the refer header and see if it's from Twitter (or better yet, just give out a unique URL for your tweets), then you would need to use the Twitter API to find out the handle (username) of that visitor who clicked your link. Lastly store this information in a database so you can review who clicked what link.

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