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# How to scrape Tripadvisor (2026 Tutorial)
- URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/how-to-scrape-tripadvisor-tutorial/
- Published: 2025-09-19T01:57:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-03T14:23:43.000Z
- Description: Learn how to scrape Tripadvisor easily using this simple API. Let's collect places' information such as description, rating, reviews, and more.
- Author: Hilman Ramadhan
- Tags: Tripadvisor API

Scraping Tripadvisor listings allows you to gather detailed information about various attractions, hotels, or restaurants, including descriptions, amenities, pricing, and user-generated ratings. This data can be instrumental in understanding market trends, identifying competitors, and optimizing your own listings or offerings in the travel industry.

Luckily, you can do this easily using our brand new [Tripadvisor API](https://serpapi.com/tripadvisor-search-api). We'll see how to scrape it in cURL, Python, and JavaScript. We can scrape restaurants, things to do, hotels, destinations, vacation rentals, and forum information.

## Available data on the Tripadvisor Search API

Here is the list of data you can retrieve from this Tripadvisor Search API:

- title
- description
- rating
- reviews
- location
- thumbnail
- highlighted overview

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/09/CleanShot-2025-09-19-at-09.25.42.png)

Tripadvisor Search API results

This is perfect if you need to collect place data from Tripadvisor. 

## How to scrape the Tripadvisor website?

Now, let's see how to use this simple API from SerpApi to collect the data!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/09/scrape-tripadvisor-API-1.webp)

scraping TripAdvisor listing thumbnail

**Get your API Key**  
First, ensure you register at serpapi.com to get your API Key. You can get 250 free searches per month. You can use this API Key to access all of our APIs, including the Tripadvisor Search API.

**Available parameters**  
On top of running the basic search, you can see all of our [available parameters here](https://serpapi.com/tripadvisor-search-api).

### cURL Implementation

Here is the basic implementation in cURL:

```bash
curl --get https://serpapi.com/search \
 -d api_key="YOUR_API_KEY" \
 -d engine="tripadvisor" \
 -d q="Rome"
```

The `q` parameter is responsible for the search query.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/09/CleanShot-2025-09-19-at-09.30.08.png)

Sample response from cURL request

### **Scrape Tripadvisor search results in Python**

Next, let's see how to scrape the Tripadvisor search results in Python.

**Preparation for accessing the SerpApi API in Python**

- Create a new `main.py` file
- Install requests with:

```
pip install requests
```

Here is what the basic setup looks like:

```python
import requests
SERPAPI_API_KEY = "YOUR_REAL_SERPAPI_API_KEY"

params = {
    "api_key": SERPAPI_API_KEY, #replace with your real API Key
    # soon
}

search = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search", params=params)
response = search.json()
print(response)
```

With these few lines of code, we can access all of the search engines available at SerpApi, including the Tripadvisor Search API. 

```python
import requests
SERPAPI_API_KEY = "YOUR_SERPAPI_API_KEY"

params = {
    "api_key": SERPAPI_API_KEY, 
    "engine": "tripadvisor",
    "q": "indonesia"
}

search = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search", params=params)
response = search.json()
print(response)
```

To make it easier to see the response, let's add indentation to the output. 

```python
import json

# ...
# ...
# all previous code

print(json.dumps(response, indent=2))
```

Running this Python file should show you the listing for that keyword from Tripadvisor website.

**Print specific information**  
Let's say we only need the title, description, rating, and reviews. This is how we can print specific columns from the `locations` results:

```python
# ...
search = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search", params=params)
response = search.json()

for result in response.get("locations", []):
    title = result.get("title")
    rating = result.get("rating")
    reviews = result.get("reviews")
    description = result.get("description")

    print(f"Title: {title}")
    print(f"Rating: {rating}")
    print(f"Reviews: {reviews}")
    print(f"description: {description}")
    print("-" * 10)

```

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/09/CleanShot-2025-09-19-at-09.36.36.png)

Sample response from printing specific information

**Export data to a CSV file**  
Let's see how to export this Tripadvisor product data into a CSV file in Python

```python
# ...

import csv

with open("tripadvisor_results.csv", "w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as csvfile:
    fieldnames = ["title", "rating", "reviews", "description"]
    writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=fieldnames)

    writer.writeheader()
    for result in response.get("locations", []):
        writer.writerow({
            "title": result.get("title"),
            "rating": result.get("rating"),
            "reviews": result.get("reviews"),
            "description": result.get("description")
        })
print("Data exported successfully.")
```

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/2025/09/CleanShot-2025-09-19-at-09.38.50.png)

Export Tripadvisor search results into a CSV file

### JavaScript implementation

Finally, let's see how to scrape the Tripadvisor search results in JavaScript.

Install the `serpapi` package:

```bash
npm install serpapi
```

Run a basic query:

```javascript
const { getJson } = require("serpapi");
getJson({
  engine: "tripadvisor",
  api_key: API_KEY, // Put your API Key
  q: "indonesia"
}, (json) => {
  console.log(json["locations"]);
});
```

### Other programming languages

While you can use our APIs using a simple GET request with any programming language, you can also see our ready-to-use libraries here: [SerpApi Integrations](https://serpapi.com/integrations).

## How to customize the search?

We provide many filters to customize your search. 

- tripadvisor\_domain: Parameter defines the Tripadvisor domain to use. It defaults to `tripadvisor.com`. Head to [Tripadvisor domains](https://serpapi.com/tripadvisor-domains) for a full list of supported domains.
- lat and lon: Specify the lat and lon GPS coordinates when performing the search

*Example using a different* Tripadvisor *domain:*

```bash
curl --get https://serpapi.com/search \
 -d api_key="YOUR_API_KEY" \
 -d engine="tripadvisor" \
 -d q="cafe" \
 -d tripadvisor_domain="wwww.tripadvisor.ca"
```

**Advanced Parameters:**

- ssrc: This parameter specifies the search filter you want to use for the Tripadvisor search.

Available options:  
`a` \- All Results  
`r` \- Restaurants  
`A` \- Things to Do  
`h` \- Hotels  
`g` \- Destinations  
`v` \- Vacation Rentals  
`f` \- Forums

### How to paginate the results?

You can scrape beyond the first page using the `offset` and `limit` parameter. 

- limit defines how many results you want to receive per page. By default, it's 30\. Maximum value is 100.
- Offset skips the given number of results. For example, 0 for the first page, 30 for 2nd page, 60 for 3rd page, and so on. Or if you're using `100` as the `limit`, then the 2nd page will be `100`, 3rd page will be `200`, and so on.

## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

**Is it legal to scrape the Tripadvisor website?**  
Scraping publicly available data from websites like Tripadvisor is generally permitted under U.S. law.

**How much does it cost?**  
Register at serpapi.com to start for free. If you want to scale, we offer tiered plans based on your usage.

**Why do you need to scrape Tripadvisor listing?**  
Scraping Tripadvisor listings can provide valuable data for market analysis, competitive insights, and understanding customer preferences in the travel and hospitality industry. This information can help businesses optimize their offerings and improve customer engagement.

## Closing

That's it! Thank you very much for reading this blog post. You can play around for free on our [playground here](https://serpapi.com/playground?engine=tripadvisor).

If you need more data points to collect place listings, you can try our Google Hotels API:

[How to Scrape Google Hotels ResultsIn my previous blog post, I showed you how to scrape Google Maps easily with SerpApi. Some popular searches on Google Maps are Restaurants, Hotels, and more. For hotel searches, Google also has powerful Google Hotels services, allowing you to search hotel pricing, availability, review data, and more. Google Hotels![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/icon/serpapi-favicon-146.png)SerpApiAndy L![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a5/00/a5004977-0dd2-4bcd-9292-dd0e05d4c59e/content/images/thumbnail/img-18dzPqeVx4XELfxfCCPWnO9i.png)](https://serpapi.com/blog/how-to-scrape-google-hotels-results/)