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Setting 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.

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

<?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-dashboard
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');

$post_array = array();
// example #1 - a simple way to set a task
// this way requires you to specify a location, a language of search, and a keyword.
$post_array[] = array(
	"location_code" => 1013962,
	"language_code" => "en",
	"keyword" => mb_convert_encoding("The Last Bookstore", "UTF-8")
);
// example #2 - a way to set a task with additional parameters
// high priority allows us to complete a task faster, but you will be charged more money.
// after a task is completed, we will send a GET request to the address you specify. Instead of $id and $tag, you will receive actual values that are relevant to this task.
$post_array[] = array(
	"location_name" => "Los Angeles,California,United States",
	"language_name" =>"English",
	"keyword" => mb_convert_encoding("The Last Bookstore", "UTF-8"),
	"priority" => 2,
	"tag" => "some_string_123",
	"pingback_url" => 'https://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag'
);
// this example has a 2 elements, but in the case of large number of tasks - send up to 100 elements per POST request
if (count($post_array) > 0) {
	try {
		// POST /v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/task_post
		$result = $client->post('/v3/business_data/google/questions_and_answers/task_post', $post_array);
		print_r($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;
?>

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
  "version": "0.1.20240422",
  "status_code": 20000,
  "status_message": "Ok.",
  "time": "0.2147 sec.",
  "cost": 0.00075,
  "tasks_count": 1,
  "tasks_error": 0,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "04261229-1535-0577-0000-e3c2f0a46daf",
      "status_code": 20100,
      "status_message": "Task Created.",
      "time": "0.0064 sec.",
      "cost": 0.00075,
      "result_count": 0,
      "path": [
        "v3",
        "business_data",
        "google",
        "questions_and_answers",
        "task_post"
      ],
      "data": {
        "api": "business_data",
        "function": "questions_and_answers",
        "language_code": "en",
        "location_name": "Los Angeles,California,United States",
        "keyword": "The Last Bookstore",
        "se_type": "questions_and_answers",
        "se": "google",
        "device": "desktop",
        "os": "windows"
      },
      "result": null
    }
  ]
}

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.

You can retrieve the results of completed tasks using the unique task identifier id. Alternatively, we can send them to you as soon as they are ready if you specify the postback_url or pingback_url when setting a task. Note that if your server doesn’t respond within 10 seconds, the connection will be aborted by timeout, and the task will be transferred to the ‘Tasks Ready’ list. The error code and message depend on your server’s configuration. See Help Center to learn more about using pingbacks and postbacks with DataForSEO APIs.

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

priority integer task priority
optional field
can take the following values:
1 – normal execution priority (set by default)
2 – high execution priority

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 question rows in the result
default value: 20
max value: 700
Note: your account will be billed for every 20 questions;
thus, setting a depth above 20 may result in additional charges if the search engine returns more than 20 questions;
if the specified depth is higher than the number of questions in the response, the difference will be refunded automatically to your account balance
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
postback_url string return URL for sending task results
optional field
once the task is completed, we will send a POST request with its results compressed in the gzip format to the postback_url you specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.
example:
http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id
http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id&tag=$tag
Note: special characters in postback_url will be urlencoded;
i.a., the # character will be encoded into %23

learn more on our Help Center

pingback_url string notification URL of a completed task
optional field
when a task is completed we will notify you by GET request sent to the URL you have specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.
example:
http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id
http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag
Note: special characters in pingback_url will be urlencoded;
i.a., the # character will be encoded into %23
learn more on our Help Center

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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 tasksarray
tasks_error integer the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasks array array of tasks
        id string unique task identifier in our system
in the Universally unique identifier (UUID) format
        status_code integer status code of the task
generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000
        status_message string informational message of the task
        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
in this case, the value will be null

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