Scrape Tripadvisor search results into a spreadsheet
The Tripadvisor Search Scraper turns a search into rows. You submit plain search terms - the sort of thing you would type into the site's own search box - or tripadvisor.com/Search URLs, one per line or uploaded as a CSV, XLSX, TXT or Parquet file, set a limit per query, and choose whether you want all results or just hotels, restaurants, things to do or vacation rentals. Every result comes back as a record with the query it came from, the name, the category, the rating and review count, the address, a link and an image. Eight columns, one row per result, downloadable as CSV, Excel or JSON.
The column names on this page are solid, and the cell contents are not described, because every export we hold is empty. The eight names and their order are corroborated by two independent sources that agree exactly: the column array the platform publishes for this service, and the header row of all seven run exports we hold, each declaring the same eight cells. But all seven are a header with no rows beneath it, and the service's own message names the reason - Tripadvisor uses bot protection that blocks datacenter addresses, and live results need a residential proxy. So there are no example values here, no formats and no fill rates: with no populated run, they would be invented.
One structural gap is worth carrying into your schema. The export has a rating column and a reviews count, but no max_rating, so the scale the rating sits on cannot be recovered from the file itself and needs confirming on a first real run before you compare or average anything. Note also that reviews is a count rather than review text - no reviewer name and no review body appears in this export at all.
On the legal side this is among the lighter exports in our catalogue: public results pages, no login and no paywall, and no person named in any of the eight columns. It is places, ratings and addresses. Tripadvisor's own terms still govern automated collection from their site, so read them before you scale, and remember that listing images and copy are somebody else's work if you intend to republish them. Start free: your first 500 rows cost nothing and need no credit card, and after that it is $0.002 per row, flat.