Enter your Google Places API Key and a business name or Maps link to retrieve a Google Review link, as well as QR Codes pointing to the Google Review Page and the Google Maps Page, and the Business's Place ID.
Your API key is saved locally in your browser and never sent anywhere except back to Google.
The Google Places API has a generous free monthly credit of up to 10,000 monthly API calls, meaning for the occasional lookup, this service is basically free to use. However, they do still require you to set up a Google Developer Account with a valid billing account in order to use this service. If you're using this service to help clients (or yourself) land Google Reviews by simplifying the process for customers, then the small amount of work necessary to set everything up is well worth it.Waiting for submission...
Credits:
Google Places API: Places API | Google
QR Code Generation: QRCode.js | davidshimjs
Code Assist: GLM-4.6 | Z.ai
Note:
AI was used to turn this full day coding job into an hour-long coding job. I know how to write HTML, program with JS, and style with CSS. I understand how to interact with cloud-based API's and use keys to submit requests to external services. I chose to use GLM-4.6 (and some Claude 4.5) to speed up the creation of this tool by making it do a lot of the gruntwork of setting up the base that I could then tune and tweak to my liking. I just needed a quick and dirty solution to getting a Google review link (and QR codes) quickly and easily without relying on some 3rd party to get it for me. AI assisted me in doing so at a much faster pace than if I had done it on my own. If that upsets you, feel free to write up your own tool and use that instead. Either way, I hope you find use in this tool and enjoy using it for whatever you might need.