Trip Advisor

TripAdvisor is an online travel company that operates a website and mobile app featuring user-generated content, reviews, and comparison shopping for hotels, restaurants, attractions, and other travel-related services.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Trip Advisor API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Trip Advisor connector is purpose-built for Trip Advisor, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Trip Advisor or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Trip Advisor workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a TripAdvisor credential, you need to obtain your API Key from your TripAdvisor account. TripAdvisor uses API key authentication for all API requests, with the key sent as a URL parameter.

To obtain your TripAdvisor API key, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your TripAdvisor account using your administrator credentials.

2. Navigate to the TripAdvisor Content API portal or visit the TripAdvisor Developer Portal to access API key management.

3. In the TripAdvisor Content API portal, navigate to API Keys or Developer Settings to access your API key management.

4. If you don't have an API key yet, click Create API Key or Generate API Key to create a new API key.

5. Configure your API key settings:

   • Enter a name for the API key (e.g., "Nexla Integration")
   • Review and accept the TripAdvisor API Terms of Service
   • Click Create or Generate to create the API key

6. After the API key is created, copy the API Key value immediately, as it may not be accessible again after you navigate away from the page.

7. Store the API key securely, as you will need it to configure your Nexla credential. The API key is sensitive information and should be kept confidential.

The API key is sent as a URL parameter (key) for all API requests to the TripAdvisor Content API. The key authenticates your requests and grants access to TripAdvisor resources based on your account permissions. If your API key is compromised, you should immediately revoke it in your TripAdvisor account settings and generate a new one. For detailed information about obtaining API keys, API authentication, and available endpoints, refer to the TripAdvisor Content API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key Value	Yes	Yes

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Trip Advisor

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your API Key Value in the API Key Value field. This is the API key you obtained from your TripAdvisor Content API portal (API Keys or Developer Settings) in Prerequisites. The API key is sent as a URL parameter (key) for all API requests to the TripAdvisor Content API and must be kept confidential.

   Your TripAdvisor API key can be found in the TripAdvisor Content API portal under API Keys or Developer Settings. The API key is sent as a URL parameter (key) for all API requests to the TripAdvisor Content API.

   If your API key is compromised, you should immediately revoke it in your TripAdvisor account settings and generate a new one. The API key provides access to your TripAdvisor account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Keep your API key secure and do not share it publicly.

   For detailed information about obtaining API keys, API authentication, and available endpoints, see the TripAdvisor Content API documentation and TripAdvisor Content API overview.

4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the TripAdvisor connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the TripAdvisor instance, and click Next; or, create a new TripAdvisor credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common TripAdvisor endpoints. Each template is designed specifically for the corresponding TripAdvisor endpoint, making source configuration easy and efficient. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Get resource of a location

This endpoint template retrieves a specific resource (details, photos, or reviews) for a location from your TripAdvisor account. Use this template when you need to access location information, photos, or reviews for analysis, reporting, or integration purposes.

• Enter the Location ID in the Location id field. This should be the unique identifier of the location whose resource you want to retrieve. The Location ID determines which location's resource will be retrieved. You can find the Location ID by using the "Location search" endpoint or from TripAdvisor location URLs.
• Enter the Resource Type in the Resource type field. This should be the type of resource you want to retrieve: details for location details, photos for location photos, or reviews for location reviews. The Resource Type determines which type of resource will be retrieved for the specified location.

This endpoint returns the specified resource type for the specified location from your TripAdvisor account. The Location ID can be found by using the "Location search" endpoint or from TripAdvisor location URLs. The Resource Type determines whether you retrieve location details, photos, or reviews.

For detailed information about location resources, API response structures, and available resource data, see the TripAdvisor Content API documentation.

Location search

This endpoint template searches for locations based on a search query from your TripAdvisor account. Use this template when you need to find locations by name, address, or other search criteria for analysis, reporting, or integration purposes.

• Enter the Search Query in the Search query field. This should be the search term you want to use to find locations (e.g., location name, address, or other search criteria). The Search Query determines which locations will be returned in the search results. This field is optional, and if left empty, the endpoint may return default or all available locations.

This endpoint returns a list of locations matching the search query from your TripAdvisor account, including location IDs, names, addresses, and other location metadata. The search results can be used to find Location IDs for use with the "Get resource of a location" endpoint.

For detailed information about location search, API response structures, and available search options, see the TripAdvisor Content API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

TripAdvisor data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid TripAdvisor API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates or when you need custom API configurations, such as sources that use chained API calls to fetch data from multiple endpoints. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

TripAdvisor Content API endpoints use the GET method and follow the base URL https://api.content.tripadvisor.com/api/v1/, e.g., https://api.content.tripadvisor.com/api/v1/location/{locationId}/{resourceType} or https://api.content.tripadvisor.com/api/v1/location/search?searchQuery={query}. For the Set Path to Data in Response field, use $.* for location resource responses (details, photos, or reviews) or $.data[*] for location search responses.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new TripAdvisor data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.