user_ratings_total No longer available in google places API. Alternative for getting total number of reviews?

Question

As of today (5/25/2016) there seems to no longer be data for user_ratings_total in the Google Places API. I use this to get the total number of reviews for a business. Is th

Answer 1

This is fixed now. Reposting a comment from the issue linked to above by @TechLeadAA

The total amount of ratings is now generally available for all Places API clients as part of the Basic SKU:

https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details#fields https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/place-data-fields#basic

Places API: user_ratings_total

Places SDK for iOS: GMSPlaceFieldUserRatingsTotal

Places SDK for Android: Place.Field.USER_RATINGS_TOTAL