The Scenario
You work at a travel agency and have been accumulating Tripadvisor location IDs for months — from client inquiries, past itineraries, a data pull someone ran last year. The workbook has 50 IDs in column A. No names, no addresses, no links. A client is coming in next week to review a curated property list.
Your manager asked you to have the workbook fully populated before Thursday's prep call. It is Tuesday morning.
The bad version:
- Open the Tripadvisor API console, make a details call for location ID one, find name, address, rating, category, and URL in the JSON response
- Paste each field into the correct column in the workbook, move to location ID two
- Reach row 20, find that four IDs return "location not found," decide whether to leave those blank or spend time tracking down replacement IDs
Fifty rows of manual API lookups is not a morning task. It is a day task that crowds out the actual client preparation.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads column A, calls the Tripadvisor location details endpoint for each ID, and writes the name, category, address, phone number, and website URL into the adjacent columns in one pass.
Here is the prompt for this task:
For each TripAdvisor location ID in column A of my Excel sheet, get the location details and write the name, category, formatted address, phone number, and website URL into the adjacent columns
What You Get
- Column B: Location name
- Column C: Category (hotel, restaurant, attraction)
- Column D: Full formatted address
- Column E: Phone number where available
- Column F: Website URL where available
- Rows with invalid or unresolvable IDs get a note in column B indicating the ID returned no result
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want rating, review count, and price level rather than phone and website
For each location ID in column A, fetch the full TripAdvisor location details and write the name, full address, overall rating, review count, price level, and TripAdvisor URL into columns B through G
Some IDs have trailing spaces that cause lookup failures
For each location ID in column A, trim any whitespace, then fetch TripAdvisor location details and write name, category, full address, and TripAdvisor URL into columns B through E
You want the enriched data on a new worksheet rather than filling into the same one
For each location ID in column A of the IDs worksheet, fetch TripAdvisor location details and write location ID, name, category, full address, rating, and URL as rows in a new worksheet called Enriched Properties
You want the full enrichment plus a two-sentence property description for a client handout
For each location ID in column A, fetch TripAdvisor location details — name, category, address, rating, review count, and URL — write them into columns B through G, then in column H write a two-sentence property description suitable for a client itinerary, drawing on the name, category, and rating
Writing 50 property descriptions by hand is two full days. As part of the same prompt, it is one operation.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook where your collected Tripadvisor location IDs live, then ask it to fill in name, category, address, rating, review count, and URL for all of them. You can also ask it to pull award histories or recent reviews for the same list in the same session.