How to export your Google reviews to a spreadsheet
Google Business Profile has no export button. Here are the three real ways to get your reviews into a spreadsheet, from copy-paste to the API, and when each one makes sense.
Sooner or later you need your reviews as rows: for a client report, a quarterly summary, a spreadsheet pivot, or just a record you control that doesn't live on Google's servers. Then you discover the surprising part: Google Business Profile has no export button. Your own reviews, and no way to download them. Here are the three ways people actually solve it.
Option 1: copy and paste
For a listing with a couple dozen reviews, brute force is honest work: open the reviews, select, paste into a sheet, clean up the columns. Budget more time than you think, because star ratings paste as images or not at all, dates come across as "3 weeks ago" instead of actual dates, and long reviews arrive full of line breaks that shatter your rows. It's fine exactly once, for a small listing, and it's stale the day after you do it.
Option 2: the Business Profile API
Google does expose reviews programmatically through the Business Profile API, which is the right answer if you have a developer, a Google Cloud project, and OAuth access to the profile. You get structured data: reviewer, rating, text, timestamps. You also get everything that comes with maintaining an integration: credential setup, quota requests, token refreshes, and code somebody has to own. For a single business that wants a spreadsheet, it's a lot of machinery for one CSV.
Option 3: a tool that already stores your reviews
Review monitoring tools sit on a copy of your review history by nature of what they do, which makes export nearly free. In Ocular, the Reviews page has an Export CSV button that downloads whatever the current view shows, and not just the page on screen: the full filtered set, whether that's everything, only critical ratings, or every review mentioning parking. Each row carries the date, rating, author, platform, business account, detected topics, the full text flattened to one clean line, and a link back to the original review.
Two details worth checking in any tool you use for this. First, that the export covers all your platforms in one file; a Google-only export means merging Yelp and Facebook by hand anyway. Second, how much history you actually have: Ocular's first sync loads about a year of reviews per listing, so the spreadsheet is useful on day one, not after months of collecting.