How to export product reviews
There is no one answer, so here it is by platform. Google Play does export a CSV, but from the reports bucket rather than the Reviews page. Etsy gives you JSON, not CSV. Shopify and WooCommerce both need a third-party app, because neither core product stores review text any more. App Store Connect has an API and no export button. Trustpilot and Amazon do not let you export review text at all — for those two the rest of this guide is about what to do instead.
What this comes down to
- There is no single answer — the export route differs per platform, and for two of them it does not exist.
- Google Play does export CSV, but from Download reports rather than the Reviews page, as monthly files posted three to seven days after capture.
- Etsy exports reviews as JSON. The CSV downloads on the same tab are listings, orders and payments.
- Shopify and WooCommerce both need a third-party app, because neither core product stores review text any more.
- Trustpilot and Amazon have no bulk export of review text at all. Trustpilot’s Export button is aggregated rating data; Amazon answered the question directly and said no.
Where each platform stands
Checked against each platform’s own documentation in September 2026. Every row links to a page with the exact steps, or the exact reason there are none.
| Platform | Official export | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Google Play | Official CSV export | Play Console does export reviews as CSV, but through the reports bucket rather than the Reviews page. |
| App Store | API only | App Store Connect has no export button for reviews. The only official route is the App Store Connect API. |
| Steam | API only | Steam has no review download, not even in Steamworks. The official route is the public appreviews endpoint, which needs no API key and returns up to 100 reviews per request. |
| Etsy | Official export, wrong format | Etsy does let you download your reviews — but as JSON, not CSV. Listings and orders are the CSV exports. |
| Shopify | Via your review app | Shopify itself no longer holds your reviews — the Product Reviews app was sunset, so the export lives in whichever review app you use. |
| WooCommerce | Via your review app | Core WooCommerce exports products, not reviews. Reviews are WordPress comments, and getting them out takes a plugin. |
| Trustpilot | No official export | Trustpilot has no export for review text. The Export buttons in Business export aggregated ratings and your product catalog, not what people wrote. |
| Amazon | No official export | Amazon does not let sellers export review text. Asked exactly this on the Seller Central forums, Amazon answered that downloading customer reviews is not an option. |
Trustpilot’s Export button gives you aggregated ratings by day, week or month. The review text is an API job.
The platforms that do give you a file
Google Play is the cleanest. Reviews are a detailed report: Download reports → Reviews, pick the app and the month, and you get a CSV. Two things to know — the reports live in a private Google Cloud Storage bucket for your developer account, and the data is captured daily but posted within three to seven days, so the current month is always incomplete.
Etsy has a review download, but it produces JSON: Shop Manager → Settings → Options → Download Data → Download Your Reviews. The CSV exports on that same tab are listings, orders and payments. If you were looking for a review CSV on Etsy, that is why you could not find one.
The platforms where it is an API or nothing
App Store Connect lets you view, sort and respond to reviews in the interface, and does not let you export them. Sales and Trends has no review report either. The documented route is the App Store Connect API endpoint for customer reviews, which pages at a maximum of 200 per request.
One detail with real consequences: when a customer edits a review, the new version replaces the old one. Apple keeps no history. If you want to compare this quarter with last, you need to have been snapshotting all along — the API cannot reconstruct it retrospectively.
Trustpilot is the one most likely to catch you out, because it has Export buttons. They export the wrong thing: Analytics exports aggregated rating numbers by day, week or month, and the product catalog export is the catalog. For the review text in bulk, the API is the route. There is no help article for a bulk text export because there is no bulk text export.
The platforms where the reviews are not really theirs
Shopify sunset its own Product Reviews app, so your reviews live in Judge.me, Loox, Okendo, Yotpo or similar — and the export is theirs. Judge.me’s is worth knowing in detail: under 25 reviews downloads immediately, more than that is prepared in the background and emailed to your admin notification addresses, and a single file caps at 100,000 reviews.
WooCommerce stores reviews as WordPress comments. The built-in Product CSV Importer and Exporter does products only, and WooCommerce’s own reviews import/export documentation points at a paid extension. Its Product Reviews Pro documentation does not include an import tool either, and suggests general WordPress comment plugins while stating that WooCommerce does not endorse them. Because reviews are comments, the columns are comment columns — comment_content is the one holding the review.
Amazon: no, and not for a technical reason
Asked exactly this question on the Seller Central forums — how to export customer reviews to Excel or CSV — an Amazon representative answered that it is not an option, and pointed to Voice of the Customer and Seller Feedback downloads instead. A seller in the same thread added the underlying reason: a review is the reviewer’s intellectual property.
Two further things changed recently. The Customer Reviews tool in Seller Central was deprecated at the end of September 2025 and folded into Voice of the Customer. And Brand Analytics exports — including the SP-API brand analytics reports — are search and purchase data with no review text in them.
Voice of the Customer is a genuinely useful substitute for the specific job of finding defects: it is per-ASIN and carries customer comments about what went wrong. It is not a review export and does not pretend to be.
We are not going to tell you how to scrape the public review pages. It is against Amazon’s terms, and a guide that recommends it is recommending you take the risk on its behalf.
What to do when there is no export
Copy and paste, and be deliberate about what you paste. This is not a consolation prize: for the question people usually have — “what are the complaints in my one-star reviews this quarter?” — a filtered thirty is a better dataset than an unfiltered thirty thousand.
Filter on the platform first: one or two stars, last quarter, one product. Then paste that into the Review Analyzer — thirty at a time, free, no account — and you get the topics, severities and the reviews that need a reply, counted rather than summarised. If you do have a file, the same approach at volume is the next guide.
Questions
Can I export Amazon reviews?
No. Amazon answered this directly on the Seller Central forums: downloading customer reviews is not an option, and the suggested alternatives are Voice of the Customer and Seller Feedback. The Customer Reviews tool itself was deprecated at the end of September 2025 and folded into Voice of the Customer.
Does Google Play export reviews as CSV?
Yes. Play Console → Download reports → Reviews, selecting the app and a month. The files are monthly CSVs in a private Google Cloud Storage bucket for your developer account, and data is posted three to seven days after capture.
Why is my Etsy review download not a CSV?
Because Etsy exports reviews as JSON. The CSV downloads on the same Download Data tab are for listings, orders and payments. Convert the JSON, or paste the reviews instead.
Trustpilot has an Export button — why does it not have my reviews in it?
Because that export is aggregated rating data from Analytics, by day, week or month. The product catalog export is the catalog. Trustpilot has no bulk export of review text; that is an API job.
What is the minimum number of reviews worth analysing?
Enough that you would not read them all, which in practice starts around fifty. Below that, reading them is faster than preparing them — though a filtered thirty is still a reasonable way to check whether a specific complaint is common or just loud.
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