How to get reviews in Bright Local API

Question

I'm working on Bright Local API ( https://tools.brightlocal.com/ ) to get reviews of a business from Yelp ,Google+ etc. I got some code of this API from GitHub with some examples.So I just register a free account in Bright Local and try those examples to get Reviews.

Below code is used to fetch the reviews of some business.After running this code i got a job id.But I dont know how to get reviews using this Job id.

$profileUrls = array(
    'https://plus.google.com/114222978585544488148/about?hl=en',
    'https://plus.google.com/117313296997732479889/about?hl=en',
    'https://plus.google.com/111550668382222753542/about?hl=en'
);

// setup API wrappers
$api = new Api(API_KEY, API_SECRET, API_ENDPOINT);
$batchApi = new BatchApi($api);

// Step 1: Create a new batch
$batchId = $batchApi->create();

if ($batchId) {
    printf('Created batch ID %d%s', $batchId, PHP_EOL);

    // Step 2: Add review lookup jobs to batch
    foreach ($profileUrls as $profileUrl) {
        $result = $api->call('/v4/ld/fetch-reviews', array(
            'batch-id'    => $batchId,
            'profile-url' => $profileUrl,
            'country'     => 'USA'
        ));
        if ($result['success']) {
            printf('Added job with ID %d%s', $result['job-id'], PHP_EOL);
        }
    }

    // Step 3: Commit batch (to signal all jobs added, processing starts)
    if ($batchApi->commit($batchId)) {
        echo 'Committed batch successfully.'.PHP_EOL;
    }
}

Anybody knows how to get reviews using this API ?

Thanks in advance.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '15 at 15:15

It looks like you're missing the final step which is to poll for results. Our system works by adding jobs to a queue and then processing those jobs in parallel. Having created a batch, added jobs to that batch and committed it you then need to set up a loop, or come back and check for results periodically, until you see that the batch is marked as "Finished" and all jobs have returned data.

To do this call:

$results = $batchApi->get_results($batchId); // repeat this call until complete

$results will contain "status" which will be marked as "Finished" once all jobs have finished processing as well as the actual results associated with each job.

How to get reviews in Bright Local API

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