This unofficial Tripadvisor API is a data extraction tool able to get data on hotels, restaurants, things to do, vacation rentals, attractions, tours, and public trips. Get pricing, contact details, amenities, awards, ratings, and more. Download your data in Excel, JSON, CSV, and other formats.
This changelog summarizes all changes of the TripAdvisor Actors provided by Maximillian Copelli. The specific Actors that are affected are listed for each change.
2024-10-24
Features (tripadvisor)
Added support for keyword search queries such as elephant or paddleboard
You can specify either location or keyword query using the new query input field
Fixes (tripadvisor)
Fixed hotel search crawling and result extraction
Deprecations (tripadvisor)
Deprecated locationFullName, use query instead (the Actor now supports both location and keyword queries)
2024-10-21
Fixes (tripadvisor)
Fixed top-category restaurant search crawling from tourism page locationFullName input
2024-09-05
Features (tripadvisor)
Added output field input to make it easier to match results with the requested scrape URLs
2024-08-30
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed extraction of listing images to fetch more results
All types of listings affected: hotels, restaurants, attractions, vacation rentals
2024-08-18
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added extraction of online order providers for restaurant listings
New output field orderOnline which is an array of objects with the following properties:
Fixed crawling issues that was causing the scraper to crash often
2024-07-01
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Optimized requests enqueueing (total number of processed requests decreased)
2024-06-24
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added extraction of nearby results for hotels, vacation rentals and restaurants
New output field isNearbyResult
New input field includeNearbyResults (false by default)
2024-06-23
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed parsing of vacation rentals
Removed no longer available output fields from rental results: bedroomInfo, bathroomInfo, baseDailyRate.currency
2024-06-05
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Significantly improved the success rate of requests, which were being blocked by TripAdvisor's recent anti-scraping measures
Fixed Tourism search pages crawling not working due to a change on the website
2024-05-29
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added extraction for TripAdvisor's "Traveler's Choice Award" badge under the new travelerChoiceAward output field
2024-05-28
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed location search query failing for specific less common locations
2024-05-26
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed restaurants price range extraction, for cases where the price range is not available and a secondary page layout
Fixed restaurants preview photos extraction on secondary page layout
Fixed ranking denominator data extraction on secondary restaurants page layout
Fixed cuisines extraction for restaurants
2024-05-13
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added support for find restaurants URL filters, which are now used during the search
e.g. https://www.tripadvisor.com/FindRestaurants?geo=60763&establishmentTypes=10591&mealTypes=10598
Features (tripadvisor-reviews)
Improved Actor to Actor integration from the full Tripadvisor Scraper to now output the scraped placeInfo data, which essentially merges the two datasets together
2024-05-04
BREAKING CHANGES (All TripAdvisor Actors)
Added custom "error" results in cases, where the input configuration results in 0 results found. For example:
inputted a location that doesn't exist
scrape reviews for a place that has no reviews
scrape review in only a specific language, but the place has no reviews in that language
2024-04-28
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed extraction of price range and photos for restaurants
Fixed extraction of ranking denominator data
Fixes (tripadvisor-reviews)
Fixed review owner response extraction
2024-04-24
Hot fixes (All TripAdvisor Actors)
Fixed crawling issues on various pages caused by a major Tripadvisor update
Hot fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed restaurant search pages crawling, also caused by a Tripadvisor update
2024-04-19
Fixes (tripadvisor-reviews)
Fixed specific reviews which were being incorrectly translated to English
2024-03-29
Hot fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed extraction and crawling for location search pages (caused by a Tripadvisor update)
Improved blocking rate for tourism search pages
2024-03-24
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added extraction of property detail preview photos under the photos field
added for hotels, restaurants, and attractions
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed handling of a very rare TripAdvisor server error, which was causing the Actor to stop crawling
2024-03-22
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed extraction of hotel's category review scores (categoryReviewScores) for certain hotel pages
Fixed crawling of tourism search pages
2024-02-25
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed extraction of ranking data for hotels and restaurants
Fixed extraction of restaurants price range data
2024-02-14
Hot fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed restaurant search pages failing to crawl. This was caused by Tripadvisor's updated blocking.
2024-02-09
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed categoryReviewScores extraction not working
Fixed listing pages input URLs offsets being incorrectly updated if the URL parameter was already present
2024-02-08
Hot fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed hotel and vacation rentals listing page extraction issues caused by Tripadvisor's update
2024-01-30
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added extraction of hotel's WhatsApp redirect URL - whatsAppRedirectUrl field
Added extraction of location's AI generated reviews summary - aiReviewsSummary field
2023-12-25
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added detection and handling of TripAdvisor's blocking for specific location detail pages
Added support for a different page layout of restaurant listings
2023-12-13
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed locationFullName input field search not working for certain locations
2023-12-11
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed a few bugs related to the extraction logic of 'vacation rentals' search/listings pages.
2023-12-07
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Implemented back an updated version of the overcome 3000 results limit feature. The current version is based on a different approach and doesn't get all the results, but still gets a way larger portion than the default search.
2023-12-05
Hot fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Removed the overcome 3000 results limit feature, because Tripadvisor has disabled their functionality that allowed us to overcome this limit.
2023-11-30
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed crawling of vacation rentals search pages (caused by a Tripadvisor update)
2023-11-27
Fixes (tripadvisor-reviews)
Fixed detection of last review pages for rare cases, where Tripadvisor was displaying incorrect number of reviews
Fixes (tripadvisor-places)
Fixed incorrect input validation of checkInDate and checkOutDate fields
2023-11-24
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added support for relative dates in checkInDate and checkOutDate input fields (e.g. 3 days, 1 week or 3 months)
note: you need to use the JSON input editor to set relative dates
Features (tripadvisor-reviews)
Added support for relative dates in lastReviewDate input field (e.g. 3 days, 1 week or 3 months)
note: you need to use the JSON input editor to set relative dates
Added support for Actor to Actor integration from the full Tripadvisor Scraper
Automatically takes the scraped place URLs from the dataset of the full scraper and appends them to the startUrls input field
2023-11-20
Fixes (All TripAdvisor Actors)
Fixed pagination offsets for certain hotel pages sometimes not working
2023-11-13
Fixes (tripadvisor-reviews)
Fixed Actor not exiting after extracting all reviews
2023-11-11
Fixes (tripadvisor-reviews)
Fixed the default value for lastReviewDate input field
Fixed duplicates caused by English reviews reaching the lastReviewDate limit with 'all review languages' filter
2023-10-28
Fixes (All TripAdvisor Actors)
Fixed extraction issues related to the Chinese language
2023-10-27
BREAKING CHANGES (tripadvisor-reviews)
Changed/removed a few fields in the output. Most of these fields shouldn't significantly impact most users. If any of these fields are missed, please open a new issue for further consideration.
Features (tripadvisor-reviews)
Added review rating filters (reviewRatings)
Added review language filter for 'All languages' (reviewLanguages)
Added functionality to select multiple review languages filters simultaneously (reviewLanguages)
Implemented extraction of review's trip type (tripType), room tip (roomTip) and the job title of the place owner respondent (ownerResponse.connectionToSubject)
Improved the reviews-saving process to work continuously, instead of one large batch after scraping all reviews for a specific place
Fixes (tripadvisor-reviews)
Fixed review language filter targeting unwanted languages when a hotel lacked reviews in the desired language
2023-10-24
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added 'max items limit per query' input option (maxItemsPerQuery)
Limits the number of items that will be extracted per each start URL or search query
2023-10-13
Fixes (All TripAdvisor Actors)
Fixed and adjusted to Tripadvisor's update that broke our scraping for certain pages
Other (All TripAdvisor Actors)
Set Actor memory to 2 GB - this value provides optimal performance and cost
2023-10-07
Features (tripadvisor-places)
Added 'Category review scores' extraction for hotels - categoryReviewScores field
Maximillian Copelli
