How to scrape Tripadvisor (2025 Tutorial)

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. 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

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!

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.

cURL Implementation

Here is the basic implementation in cURL:

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.

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:

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.

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.

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:

# ...
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)

Export data to a CSV file
Let's see how to export this Tripadvisor product data into a CSV file in 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.")

JavaScript implementation

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

Install the serpapi package:

npm install serpapi

Run a basic query:

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.

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 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:

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.

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