List reviews
List reviews from Review Inbox with their status.
MCP tool brightlocal_read → list_reviews
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Returns the date, source, rating, review text and status of each review, newest first. can_respond is true only for Google and Facebook reviews of a location connected to Reputation Manager; for other sites BrightLocal offers a link to the listing.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| location_id string | string | Only reviews of this location. |
| source string | string | Review site, for example Google, Facebook or Yelp. |
| status string | string | Unread, Action Required, Do Not Respond, Manually Responded, Auto-Responded, Pending Removal, Successfully Removed or Removal Failed. |
| rating integer | integer | Only reviews with this star rating. |
| since string | string | ISO date; only reviews from this day on. |
| cursor string | string | Next page cursor from the previous call. |
tools/call
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "brightlocal_read",
"arguments": {
"operation": "list_reviews",
"arguments": {}
}
}
}Example response
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
}
],
"structuredContent": {
"reviews": [
{
"review_id": "rv_91c2",
"location": "Harbor Dental, Austin",
"source": "Google",
"rating": 5,
"date": "2026-10-21",
"author": "Dana R.",
"text": "Dr. Lee made my whitening visit painless. Booking was easy too.",
"status": "Unread",
"can_respond": true
},
{
"review_id": "rv_77d4",
"location": "Harbor Dental, Austin",
"source": "Yelp",
"rating": 2,
"date": "2026-10-20",
"author": "Sam T.",
"text": "Waited 40 minutes past my appointment time.",
"status": "Unread",
"can_respond": false
}
],
"next_cursor": null
},
"isError": false
}