Setting Live Google My Business Questions and Answers Tasks

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This endpoint will provide you with a detailed overview of questions and answers associated with a specific business entity listed on Google My Business. By submitting a request to this endpoint, you can access comprehensive data on the inquiries and responses related to a particular business, including the full text of the questions and answers, as well as metadata such as timestamps, user information.
 
The provided results are specific to the selected location (see the List of Locations) and language (see the List of Languages) settings.
 
Your account will be billed for every 20 questions, the maximum number of answers returned for each question is 5.

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Pricing

Your account will be charged for setting a task. The cost can be calculated on the Pricing page.

All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). Task setting is done using the POST method. When setting a task, you should send all task parameters in the task array of the generic POST array. You can send up to 2000 API calls per minute, with each POST call containing no more than 100 tasks. If your POST call contains over 100 tasks, the tasks over this limit will return the 40006 error.

Below you will find a detailed description of the fields you can use for setting a task.

Description of the fields for setting a task:

Field name Type Description
keyword string keyword
required field
the keyword you specify should indicate the name of the local establishment
you can specify up to 700 characters in the keyword filed
all %## will be decoded (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)
if you need to use the “%” character for your keyword, please specify it as “%25”;

this field can also be used to pass the following parameters:
cid – a unique, google-defined id of the business entity;
place_id – an identifier of the business entity in Google Maps;
spp – a unique identifier of local services featured in the local_pack element of Google SERP

example:
cid:194604053573767737
place_id:GhIJQWDl0CIeQUARxks3icF8U8A
spp:CgsvZy8xdGN4cWRraBoUChIJPZDrEzLsZIgRoNrpodC5P30

learn more about the cid and place_id identifiers in this help center article

learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article

location_name string full name of search engine location
required field if you don’t specify location_code or location_coordinate
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_code or location_coordinate
you can receive the list of available locations with location_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/locations
example:
London,England,United Kingdom
location_code integer search engine location code
required field if you don’t specify location_name or location_coordinate
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_coordinate
you can receive the list of available locations with location_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/locations
example:
2840
location_coordinate string GPS coordinates of a location
required field if you don’t specify location_name or location_code
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_code
location_coordinate parameter should be specified in the “latitude,longitude,radius” format
the maximum number of decimal digits for “latitude” and “longitude”: 7
the minimum value for “radius”: 199.9 (mm)
the maximum value for “radius”: 199999 (mm)
example:
53.476225,-2.243572,200
language_name string full name of search engine language
required field if you don’t specify language_code
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_code
you can receive the list of available languages with language_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/languages
example:
English
language_code string search engine language code
required field if you don’t specify language_name
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_name
you can receive the list of available languages with their language_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/languages
example:
en
depth integer parsing depth
optional field
number of results in SERP
default value: 20
max value: 100

tag string user-defined task identifier
optional field
the character limit is 255
you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result
you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response

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As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.

Description of the fields in the results array:

Field name Type Description
version string the current version of the API
status_code integer general status code
you can find the full list of the response codes here
Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
status_message string general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time string execution time, seconds
cost float total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count integer the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_error integer the number of tasks in the tasks array that were returned an error
tasks array array of tasks
        id string task identifier
unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
        status_code integer status code of the task
generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000
you can find the full list of the response codes here
        status_message string informational message of the task
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
        time string execution time, seconds
        cost float cost of the task, USD
        result_count integer number of elements in the result array
        path array URL path
        data object contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
        result array array of results
            keyword string keyword received in a POST array
keyword is returned with decoded %## (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)
this field will contain the cid parameter if you specified it in the keyword field when setting a task;
example:
cid:2946633002421908862
learn more about the parameter in this help center article
            se_domain string search engine domain as specified in a POST array
            location_code integer location code in a POST array
            language_code string language code in a POST array
            check_url string direct URL to search engine results
you can use it to make sure that we provided accurate results
            datetime string date and time when the result was received
in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00”
example:
2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
            cid string google-defined client id
unique id of a local establishment;
learn more about the identifier in this help center article
            feature_id string unique identifier of the SERP feature
            item_types array item types
types of search engine results encountered in the items array;
possible item types: google_business_question_item
            items_without_answers array array of google business question items without answers
                type string type of element = ‘google_business_question_item’
                rank_group integer position within a group of elements with identical type values
positions of elements with different type values are omitted from rank_group
                rank_absolute integer absolute rank among all the elements
                question_id string ID of the question
                url string URL of the question
                profile_image_url string URL of the user’s profile image
                profile_url string URL of the user’s profile
                profile_name string displayed name of the user
                question_text string current text of the question
                original_question_text string original text of the question
                time_ago string estimated time when the question was posted
                timestamp string exact time when the question was posted
                items array array of items
items within google_business_question_item
            items_count integer the number of items in the items array
            items array array of google business question items with answers
possible item types: google_business_question_item
                type string type of element = ‘google_business_question_item’
                rank_group integer position within a group of elements with identical type values
positions of elements with different type values are omitted from rank_group
                rank_absolute integer absolute rank among all the elements
                question_id string ID of the question
                url string URL of the question
                profile_image_url string URL of the user’s profile image
                profile_url string URL of the user’s profile
                profile_name string displayed name of the user
                question_text string current text of the question
                original_question_text string original text of the question
                time_ago string estimated time when the question was posted
                timestamp string exact time when the question was posted
                items array array of items within google_business_question_item
contains answers to the google business questions;
possible item types google_business_answer_element
                    type string type of the element = ‘google_business_answer_element’
                    answer_id string ID of the answer
                    profile_image_url string URL of the user’s profile image
                    profile_url string URL of the user’s profile
                    profile_name string displayed name of the user
                    answer_text string current text of the answer
                    original_answer_text string original text of the answer
                    time_ago string estimated time when the answer was posted
                    timestamp string exact time when the answer was posted

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Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access

# Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access 
login="login" 
password="password" 
cred="$(printf ${login}:${password} | base64)" 
curl --location --request POST "https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live" 
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}"  
--header "Content-Type: application/json" 
--data-raw "[
    {
        "language_code": "en",
        "location_name": "Los Angeles,California,United States",
        "keyword": "The Last Bookstore"
    }
]"
<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');

$post_array[] = array(
	"location_name" => "Los Angeles,California,United States",
	"language_code" => "en",
	"keyword" => mb_convert_encoding("The Last Bookstore", "UTF-8")
);

try {
	// POST /v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live
	$result = $client->post('/v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live', $post_array);
	print_r($result);
	// do something with post result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
	echo "n";
	print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
	print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
	print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
	print  $e->getTraceAsString();
	echo "n";
}

$client = null;
?>
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': 'https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live',
  'headers': {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic c3VwcG9ydEBkYXRhZm9yc2VvLmNvbTpTUnJYVHp2UGtFSjgzdXlz'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify([
    {
      "language_code": "en",
      "location_name": "Los Angeles,California,United States",
      "keyword": "The Last Bookstore"
    }
  ])

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});
from client import RestClient
# You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/python/python_Client.zip
client = RestClient("login", "password")
post_data = dict()
# simple way to set a task
post_data[len(post_data)] = dict(
    location_name="Los Angeles,California,United States",
    language_code="en",
    keyword="The Last Bookstore"
)
# POST /v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live
response = client.post("/v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live", post_data)
# you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if response["status_code"] == 20000:
    print(response)
    # do something with result
else:
    print("error. Code: %d Message: %s" % (response["status_code"], response["status_message"]))
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace DataForSeoDemos
{
    public static partial class Demos
    {
        public static async Task business_data_questions_and_answers_live()
        {
            var httpClient = new HttpClient
            {
                BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.dataforseo.com/"),
                // Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
                DefaultRequestHeaders = { Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("login:password"))) }
            };
            var postData = new List<object>();
            postData.Add(new
            {
                language_code = "en",
                location_name = "Los Angeles,California,United States",
                keyword = "The Last Bookstore"
            });
            // POST /v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live
            var taskPostResponse = await httpClient.PostAsync("/v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/live", new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(postData)));
            var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(await taskPostResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
            // you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
            if (result.status_code == 20000)
            {
                // do something with result
                Console.WriteLine(result);
            }
            else
                Console.WriteLine($"error. Code: {result.status_code} Message: {result.status_message}");
        }
    }
}