How to Scrape Hotel & Restaurant Data from TripAdvisor
Introduction:
Tripadvisor is the best travel website. This website is flooded with information of various hotels, restaurants, and attractions along with its details, ratings, and reviews. Over the years, TripAdvisor has highly influenced the mind and the decisions of travelers. To sustain in this tough competition, you need to analyze the data of your competitors or the trip destinations as well as ratings of the travelers.
However, Analysing this large set of data is next to impossible, hence all you need is a ProWebScraper. ProWebScraper is the data extractor that can extract and transform the data into a structured format like JSON or CSV. This data will help you in taking the most appropriate business decision.
Are you confused regarding how to extract data using ProWebScraper?
No worries…
We have come up with the easiest ProWebScraper tutorial. Here, we will build a TripAdvisor Scraper to scrape fields from the website as follow:
- Title
- Reviews
- Address
- Phone
- Rating
Watch the below video, which shows how most of the above data of hotels or restaurants can be scraped from Tripadvisor using ProWebScraper.
Below is a screenshot of the data which we will be scrapping.
Well, let’s begin.
To simplify things, we have divided the entire process into 3 stages and each stage consists of a few easy steps to follow.
- Create A Free Account at ProWebScraper
- Create and Configure a Scraper
- Download Your Data
Step 1: Create A Free Account at ProWebScraper
Go to Prowebscraper.com and create a free account. With ProWebScraper, you can scrape 100 pages for free.
Once you’ve logged in for ProWebScraper, you’ll be brought to your ProWebScraper scraper tab. Here’s how it’ll look like:
Step 2: Create & Configure Scraper
- Now we will start to create and configure our scraper by entering an URL of the TripAdvisor Detail Page. Once the website is loaded at the ProWebScraper, thereafter we will select the desired review data by ProWebScraper’s easy point-and-click selector feature.
- Let’s have a look at the whole flow, step-by-step:
(2.1) Insert URL at ProWebScraper’s Scraper tab:
At ProWebScraper Scraper tab, enter the URL of the TripAdvisor Detail Page, such as https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60750-d79971-Reviews-Catamaran_Resort_Hotel_and_Spa-San_Diego_California.html, and click on “Go” to load the page.
(2.2) Select hotel name:
- Once the page is loaded, you can start configuring scraper.
- All you need to do is click on the data point of the page to select that data point.
- To scrape the Hotel name, just click on that.
- To name this data point, either double click on the column name or from the list of data columns settings, select rename.
(2.3) Add a new column and select other details.
To scrape more data points such as Address, Reviews, Contact Number, etc. you just need to click on the “Add column”, and then click that data point on the page to select that data point and rename it.
Here is an example of how to “Add Column” and rename it for Reviews. You can do the same for other fields too.
(2.4) Save scraper and run.
- Once all the data points are selected, then Save the scraper. Click the “Save” button to save your scraper.
- You can enable/disable the option ”is this listing page” based on your scraper. For now, we will disable this option as we are scraping details.
- Once the scraper is saved, it will take you to the scraper Dashboard. From there, you can download the results of the run once it is over.
Step 3: Downloading Your Data in CSV or JSON
After the scraper is successfully finished, your data will be available for download within the Scraper Dashboard.
You can easily access the data from the Run History tab. You can see the previous runs including the latest one with the results at the top.
The data will be available for download (1) in JSON or CSV format.
You can see the “Data Preview” of the scraped data (2).
Sample Data File (CSV Format) :
Sample Data Preview:
Benefits of using ProWebScraper:
- ProWebScraper is an easy to run the tool. Just a few points and clicks on desired data, and extract 100 pages of data for free.
- Not just running the tool, ProWebScraper provides the “Free Service setup”. This setup will build scrapers within 2 hours.
- ProWebScraper is the best web scraping tool at the lowest possible rates.
- From texts to images, links, tables, etc, ProWebScraper can scrape any web data needed.
- With ProWebScraper, you can scrape data by schedule like monthly, weekly, daily, etc.
- No worry about getting blocked, as ProWebScraper rotates IP addresses with each request.
- You can run multiple scrapers at a time, using ProWebScraper.
Conclusion:
If you are still confused that, how web scraping will help you grow your business, then check the following points:
- Web scraping will help you understand the current market trends. You can easily identify the demand curve of destinations and can make suitable business decisions according to the provided data.
- You can keep an eye on your competitors by scraping hotel room prices. This will help you in fixing the best possible price, to attract more buyers.
- Also, the reviews provided by customers on the website will help you in monitoring the hotels, restaurants, or destinations.
We hope that this blog will be helpful to you in understanding the concept of web scraping and learning how to scrape Tripadvisor data using ProWebScraper.
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