Tripadvisor Dataset API
Hotel reviews, restaurant ratings, attraction information, and travel data for hospitality intelligence.
Available Data
Here's what you can extract from Tripadvisor using AlterLab:
Business Use Cases
How businesses use Tripadvisor data to make better decisions:
- Hospitality reputation monitoring
- Competitive benchmarking for hotels
- Travel market research
- Guest sentiment analysis
How It Works
Identify target properties on Tripadvisor
Provide Tripadvisor property URLs for the hotels, restaurants, or attractions you want to monitor. Tripadvisor property URLs include stable geo and property IDs in the path, making them reliable references for long-term tracking.
AlterLab renders the property pages and review content
Tripadvisor loads review content via JavaScript. AlterLab renders the complete property page including the rating breakdown, individual reviews with traveler type indicators, and property ranking within the destination.
Get hospitality reputation and competitive intelligence
Receive property ratings (bubble score), ranking within destination, total review count, traveler type breakdown, individual review text and dates, and amenity lists — ready for reputation dashboards or competitive hospitality analysis.
Key Insight
Tripadvisor's ranking of a property within its destination (e.g., '#3 of 147 hotels in Rome') is influenced by both rating and review recency — a property with fewer but more recent reviews can outrank one with more total reviews. For hospitality competitive intelligence, track both the absolute rating and the destination ranking separately, as they can move independently.
Data Freshness
Property ratings and destination rankings update as new reviews are submitted. For active reputation monitoring, weekly collection captures meaningful changes. Destination rankings during peak travel seasons (summer, holidays) are more volatile — daily monitoring during these periods provides finer-grained competitive intelligence.
Quick Start
POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY
{
"url": "https://tripadvisor.com/...",
"advanced": { "render_js": true }
}Need an API key? — no credit card required. 5,000 requests included.
Pricing at Scale
AlterLab uses pay-as-you-go pricing — no monthly minimums, no contracts. Balance never expires.
| Volume | Static pages | JS-rendered pages |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests | $0.20 | $2.00 |
| 10,000 requests | $2.00 | $20.00 |
| 100,000 requests | $20.00 | $200.00 |
| 1,000,000 requests | $200.00 | $2,000.00 |
Static pages: $0.0002/request · JavaScript-rendered pages (like Tripadvisor): $0.002/request · First 5,000 requests free. Full pricing details →
Frequently Asked Questions
What Tripadvisor data can I extract?
You can extract property ratings, review text, pricing data, ranking positions, amenity lists, and traveler feedback from any public Tripadvisor listing.
How do hotels use this data?
Hotels monitor their own reviews for service improvement, benchmark against competitors, track pricing in their market, and identify trends in guest expectations.
Can I monitor multiple properties?
Yes. AlterLab can collect data from any number of Tripadvisor listings simultaneously, making it easy to monitor your properties and competitors across multiple locations.
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Responsible Use
AlterLab is designed for extracting publicly available data. Always review the terms of service for any website you access, respect robots.txt directives, and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.
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Pricing
From $0.0002/request. No subscriptions. Balance never expires.
Your first scrape.
Sixty seconds.
$1 free credit — up to 5,000 scrapes. No credit card.
Just a POST request.
No credit card required · $1 free credit, up to 5,000 scrapes · Balance never expires