# Tripadvisor Reviews Scraper (`plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews`) Actor

Get Tripadvisor reviews of hotels, restaurants and attractions: stars, title, text, visit date, photos, management response and the place rating. Paste Tripadvisor links. No reviewer names. Only-new-reviews mode for alerts. Pay per review.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews.md
- **Developed by:** [PlainRows](https://apify.com/plainrows) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.20 / 1,000 reviews

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Tripadvisor Reviews Scraper

Get **Tripadvisor reviews of hotels, restaurants and attractions**: **stars, review title and text, visit date, publication date, language, photos and the management response**, plus the place's name, address, average rating and review count on every row. Paste Tripadvisor links from tripadvisor.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr or any other Tripadvisor domain.

It calls a commercial data API instead of driving a browser: **no proxies, no CAPTCHAs, no Tripadvisor account**. **Nothing about the reviewer is collected** (no name, profile, picture, home town or review count), and the replier's name field is dropped too (a signature inside the response text stays as written): you get the opinion, not the person.

### Typical uses

- **Hotel and restaurant reputation monitoring**: turn on **Only new reviews**, schedule a daily run and send new 1- and 2-star reviews to Slack or a spreadsheet: you never get (or pay for) the same review twice.
- **Competitor benchmarking**: compare ratings, complaints and response rates of the hotels or restaurants around you.
- **Travel and hospitality research**: what guests praise or complain about, by traveler type (families, couples, business) or month of visit.
- **Sentiment analysis and AI summaries**: feed clean review text to an LLM, a BI tool or an AI agent (MCP).
- **Agencies**: monthly review reports for hospitality clients.

### What you get

One row per review:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `input` | The link as you gave it |
| `placeTitle`, `placeAddress`, `placeUrl` | Place name, address and Tripadvisor page |
| `placeRating`, `placeReviewsCount` | The place's average rating out of 5 and its total number of reviews |
| `reviewId`, `reviewUrl` | Tripadvisor's review ID (stable: used to keep only new reviews) and a link to the review |
| `rating`, `title`, `text` | Stars (1-5), review title and text |
| `language`, `originalLanguage` | Language of the text you get, and the language it was written in |
| `visitDate`, `publishedAt` | Month of the stay or visit (first day of the month) and publication date (UTC, ISO 8601) |
| `ownerResponse`, `ownerResponseAt` | The management response (text only) and its date |
| `imageUrls` | Photos attached to the review |
| `observedAt` | When the data was fetched (UTC) |

Missing values are always `null`, never guessed. A page that does not exist, has no review or none matching your filters gets one free row with `found: false` and `notFoundReason` (the blocks requested for it are still charged, see Pricing).

### Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100,
  "sortBy": "most_recent"
}
```

- **startUrls**: one Tripadvisor link per line, up to 500: hotel (`Hotel_Review-…`), restaurant (`Restaurant_Review-…`) or attraction (`Attraction_Review-…`) pages, on any Tripadvisor domain. Other links are skipped for free and listed in the run summary.
- **maxReviewsPerPlace**: 1 to 500 (default 100).
- **sortBy**: `most_recent` (default) or `detailed_reviews`.
- **ratings**, **visitTypes**, **months** (optional filters): e.g. `["poor", "terrible"]`, `["business"]`, `["july", "august"]`.
- **translateReviews**: off by default (each review in the language it was written in). On: Tripadvisor's machine translation (the target language is chosen by Tripadvisor and not guaranteed). The same place on two Tripadvisor domains is requested once, unless this option is on.
- **onlyNewReviews** (optional, monitoring) and **monitorName**: see below.

### Monitor places: get only new reviews

Turn on **Only new reviews** (`"onlyNewReviews": true`), keep `sortBy: "most_recent"` and add an Apify **schedule** (daily, for example). The first run returns the reviews it finds and remembers their IDs in a key-value store of your own Apify account (default `plainrows-tripadvisor-reviews-monitor`); each later run returns **and bills only reviews it has never delivered**. A place with nothing new gets a free row with `notFoundReason: "no-new-reviews"`. The blocks requested are still charged on every check (the data source bills them either way): set `maxReviewsPerPlace` just above the number of new reviews the place gets between two runs (with some margin for busy days), not lower.

- The history is kept per Tripadvisor place: the same place on tripadvisor.com and tripadvisor.de shares it.
- Each run reads only the `maxReviewsPerPlace` most recent reviews. **If more new reviews arrive between two runs than that limit, the older new ones are not read again and are missed.** When a check finds a full page of reviews and none of them was delivered before, the run warns you (`more than … new reviews since the last run`, also counted in `placesPossiblyMissingReviews` in the run summary): raise `maxReviewsPerPlace` or run the check more often. When a check reads new reviews that your limit leaves out (reviews are read in blocks of 10, so a limit of 15 reads 20), the run warns too (`… new reviews beyond your limit were not delivered this run`, counted in `reviewsBeyondLimitNotDelivered` in the run summary): they come with a later run only if still among the reviews it reads.
- Use a different **monitorName** per monitoring task to keep separate histories, or a new name to start over.

### Output example

Real row (Margaritaville Resort Times Square, New York, 2026-10-11; text shortened):

```json
{
  "input": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html",
  "found": true,
  "placeTitle": "Margaritaville Resort Times Square",
  "placeAddress": "560 7th Ave, 10018, New York City, New York, US",
  "placeUrl": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html",
  "placeRating": 4.5,
  "placeReviewsCount": 963,
  "reviewId": "1080835550",
  "reviewUrl": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60763-d23462501-r1080835550-Margaritaville_Resort_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html",
  "rating": 1,
  "title": "Canceled our reservation at 9 a.m. while we were on a plane",
  "text": "If I could give zero stars, I would. We made a reservation at Margaritaville Resort Times Square weeks in advance...",
  "language": "en",
  "originalLanguage": "en",
  "visitDate": "2026-10-01",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-07T07:42:43.000Z",
  "ownerResponse": "Dear Guest, I'm sorry to hear about your experience...",
  "ownerResponseAt": "2026-10-07T15:47:46.000Z",
  "imageUrls": [],
  "observedAt": "2026-10-11T13:51:56.000Z",
  "schemaVersion": "1.0"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription, no proxy costs. See the **Pricing** tab for current prices. Three events, nothing else:

- **Review**: one per review returned, cheaper on higher Apify plans. Photos, management response and the place's rating are included.
- **Block of 10 reviews requested**: reviews are fetched in blocks of 10 per place, and the data source bills us every block requested. So 100 reviews = 10 blocks. A block is charged once Tripadvisor has answered, even if the place has fewer reviews than you asked for (or none matching your filters), or the page is not found. Tip: set `maxReviewsPerPlace` to what you need to pay for fewer blocks (with Only new reviews, keep it above the number of new reviews expected between two runs).
- **Actor start**: a small fixed fee per run, charged by Apify when the run starts.

Example, 100 reviews of one place at free Apify plan prices, run start included: about **$0.043**, i.e. about $0.0004 per review.

Duplicates and malformed links cost nothing beyond the start fee, and requests Tripadvisor does not answer in time are not charged. A well-formed link to a page that does not exist (a mistyped ID) still costs its blocks when Tripadvisor answers "no review". A review that comes back without its text or date field at all (the data source changed its format) is neither delivered nor charged, and neither are the blocks of a place where no review was readable. The run never spends more than the maximum cost you set.

**Free Apify plan:** each run returns up to 2 places with up to 50 reviews each, so you can check the output. A paid Apify plan removes these limits.

### Use it from code, automations or AI agents

**API (one call, results returned directly):**

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainrows~tripadvisor-reviews/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": ["https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html"], "maxReviewsPerPlace": 50}'
```

**n8n, Make, Zapier:** use the Apify integration, pick `plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews`, schedule it daily with Only new reviews and post new 1- or 2-star reviews to Slack.

**AI agents (MCP):** add `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews` to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client.

### See also

- [Google Maps Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-maps-reviews): the same place's Google reviews, same format and pricing.
- [Google Hotels Prices Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-hotels-prices): hotel prices by date across booking sites.

### What this is not

- **No reviewer names, profiles, pictures, home towns or review counts, and no name of the person who replied** (privacy by design, in line with GDPR data minimisation). Review and response texts are delivered as written: they may themselves mention names.
- Not every review ever written: up to 500 per place and run. Use Only new reviews to build a full history over time.
- Not a search tool: give the Tripadvisor page of each place.
- Not affiliated with Tripadvisor.

### Run summary

Each run stores a summary in the key-value store (`OUTPUT`): places submitted and run, blocks charged, how many returned nothing, reviews billed, requests Tripadvisor did not answer, monitored places that probably got more new reviews than `maxReviewsPerPlace` since the last run (`placesPossiblyMissingReviews`), new reviews read but left out by that limit (`reviewsBeyondLimitNotDelivered`), duplicates, reviews dropped because the data source changed its format (`reviewsWithChangedFormat`) and invalid links (with the reason, e.g. `NOT_A_TRIPADVISOR_LINK`), and anything skipped because of the free-plan or budget limit.

### FAQ

**How do I export the reviews of a hotel or restaurant on Tripadvisor?**
Paste its Tripadvisor link and run: one row per review with stars, title, text, dates, photos and management response.

**Which Tripadvisor sites work?**
tripadvisor.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, .es, .com.au, .ca and the other Tripadvisor domains.

**How many reviews per place?**
Up to 500 per run. For more history, run on a schedule with Only new reviews.

**Does it include reviewer names?**
No: nothing about the reviewer is collected.

### More PlainRows tools

Same pay-per-result pricing, same clean JSON, built to chain together in n8n, Make, Zapier or AI agents.

- **SEO and keywords:** [Keyword Search Volume, CPC & Difficulty](https://apify.com/plainrows/keyword-search-volume) · [Keyword Ideas Generator](https://apify.com/plainrows/keyword-ideas-generator) · [Google Autocomplete & People Also Ask](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-autocomplete-questions) · [Google Trends Explorer](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-trends-explorer) · [Website Organic Traffic & Top Keywords](https://apify.com/plainrows/domain-seo-overview) · [Bulk Domain Authority Checker](https://apify.com/plainrows/domain-authority-checker) · [Backlink Checker](https://apify.com/plainrows/backlink-checker) · [Broken Link Checker](https://apify.com/plainrows/broken-link-checker) · [AI Search Visibility Tracker (ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode)](https://apify.com/plainrows/ai-search-brand-visibility) · [Google Maps Rank Tracker (Geo-Grid Local SEO)](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-maps-rank-tracker)
- **Leads and companies:** [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-maps-businesses) · [Website Technology Checker](https://apify.com/plainrows/website-tech-stack) · [ATS Jobs Scraper (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby)](https://apify.com/plainrows/ats-job-postings) · [Google Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-jobs-scraper) · [Google Ads Scraper (Transparency Center)](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-ads-transparency) · [Company Registry Lookup (SIRENE, LEI, Brreg)](https://apify.com/plainrows/company-registry-lookup) · [Public Tenders Search (EU TED & UK)](https://apify.com/plainrows/public-tenders-search)
- **E-commerce and travel:** [Amazon Product Search Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/amazon-product-search) · [Google Shopping Prices Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-shopping-prices) · [Google Hotels Prices Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-hotels-prices)
- **Content and media:** [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-news-scraper) · [YouTube Search Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/youtube-search-scraper) · [YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/youtube-comments-scraper) · [Google Images Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-images-scraper) · [Website Screenshot API](https://apify.com/plainrows/website-screenshot) · [Google Maps Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/google-maps-reviews) · [App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/plainrows/app-reviews-scraper)

**Compared with other APIs:** [Tripadvisor reviews API](https://nadaho.github.io/plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews-api/)

### Support

Missing a field or found a bug? Open an issue on this page. Issues are read and answered.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One per line: the Tripadvisor link of a hotel, restaurant or attraction page (tripadvisor.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr and other Tripadvisor domains). Other links are skipped for free. Up to 500 places per run.

## `maxReviewsPerPlace` (type: `integer`):

Up to 500. Reviews are fetched in blocks of 10: each block requested and each review returned is billed; see Pricing.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Most recent first suits monitoring.

## `ratings` (type: `array`):

Keep only reviews with these ratings. Empty = all.

## `visitTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep only reviews from these traveler types. Empty = all.

## `months` (type: `array`):

Keep only reviews of visits in these months (any year). Empty = all.

## `translateReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Off: each review in the language it was written in. On: Tripadvisor's machine translation (target language chosen by Tripadvisor, not guaranteed).

## `onlyNewReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Return only reviews this tool has never delivered to you for the same place. The first run returns the reviews and remembers them; later runs (for example a daily schedule) return and bill only new reviews. Each run reads only the most recent "Max reviews per place": set it above the number of new reviews expected between two runs, or older new reviews are missed (the run warns you). The block fee still applies.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Name of the key-value store in your Apify account that remembers delivered reviews (default "plainrows-tripadvisor-reviews-monitor"). Use a different name per monitoring task to keep separate histories, or a new name to start over. Lowercase letters, digits and hyphens.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100,
  "sortBy": "most_recent",
  "translateReviews": false,
  "onlyNewReviews": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": ["https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html"],
    "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60763-d23462501-Reviews-Margaritaville_Times_Square-New_York_City_New_York.html"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerPlace": 100
}' |
apify call plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,plainrows/tripadvisor-reviews"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2UzV2ECwTJ1MptfEl/builds/c8sMNzDfMzC4wd0n1/openapi.json