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Tripadvisor Scraper API in Python

Restaurants or hotels from a Tripadvisor listing, with rating, review count and coordinates. One POST from Python with location, rows back as JSON with 22 fields, $0.001 per delivered place. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the tripadvisor_search collector returns one dict per place, at $0.001 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/tripadvisor_search/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "location": "New York City",
        "type": "restaurants",
        "max_results": 60,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("id"), row.get("name"), row.get("type"), row.get("rating"))

Python: one Tripadvisor listings run (Ristoranti a New York), printing id, name, type, rating

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Tripadvisor listings collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`location`	string	yes	City or area, e.g. "New York City" or "Rome, Italy". Resolved through Tripadvisor's own destination lookup; the resolved name is reported in the run notes.
`type`	string: `restaurants`, `hotels`	no (default restaurants)	Restaurants or hotels for that destination.
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`max_results`	integer	no (default 30)	How many places to deliver at most (1–300). You pay only for delivered places.

Response fields

22 fields per place.

Fields of each row (place)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	Position in Tripadvisor's order for this response. Tripadvisor re-ranks between requests, so this is not a stable property of the place.
`id`	string, nullable	Tripadvisor location id.
`name`	string	Place name.
`type`	string	"restaurant" or "hotel".
`rating`	number, nullable	Average rating out of 5.
`reviews`	integer, nullable	Number of reviews.
`price_level`	string, nullable	Price band as Tripadvisor states it ($$ - $$$ for restaurants, a currency tier for hotels). Not a nightly rate.
`cuisines`	string[], nullable	Cuisine tags (restaurants only).
`address`	string, nullable	Full address on one line.
`latitude`	number, nullable	GPS latitude.
`longitude`	number, nullable	GPS longitude.
`phone`	string, nullable	Phone number as published.
`url`	string, nullable	Canonical detail page URL.
`image`	string, nullable	Thumbnail URL.
`street`	string, nullable	Street line.
`city`	string, nullable	City.
`region`	string, nullable	State or region when Tripadvisor states one.
`postal_code`	string, nullable	Postal code.
`country`	string, nullable	Country.
`opening_hours`	object[], nullable	Restaurants: one entry per day (Monday first) with its time ranges, e.g. { day: "Sunday", hours: ["12:00-15:30", "17:30-23:00"] }.
`menu_url`	string, nullable	Restaurants: menu link when the listing has one.
`accepts_reservations`	boolean, nullable	Restaurants: whether reservations are accepted.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/tripadvisor_search/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"location":"New York City","type":"restaurants","max_results":60}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.001 per delivered place.

What Tripadvisor listings rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.001
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00

Up to 300 places per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 2,000 places. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Tripadvisor listings API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,000 places of this collector at $0.001 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 300 places per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.001 per delivered place, no subscription.

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