The Scenario
The web team is rebuilding a destination marketing organization's gallery section and asked you for a workbook with the top five Tripadvisor photo URLs for each of 20 featured attractions — large-size images, captions if available. They want it by end of week so the developer can start populating the staging environment.
You are the digital content coordinator. You have the 20 attraction location IDs in a worksheet. You have Tripadvisor API access. What you do not have is a quick way to run 20 lookups and extract photo metadata without doing them one API call at a time.
The bad version:
- Write an API call for the first location ID, get the photo array back, pull out the five large-size URLs, note any captions
- Paste them into the workbook across five columns, move to location two
- Reach location eight, realize you have been pulling medium-size URLs instead of large, go back and redo locations one through seven
The developer is blocked on the gallery build until this lands. Three hours of API calls and reformatting is not a reasonable use of the day.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your column of location IDs, hits the Tripadvisor photos endpoint for each, and writes large-size URLs into the adjacent columns — exactly as you specify.
Here is the prompt for this specific task:
Get the TripAdvisor photos for each location ID in column A of my Excel sheet and write the large-size photo URLs into columns B through F, leaving blank for any location with fewer than 5 photos
What You Get
- Columns B through F: Up to five large-size photo URLs per location ID
- Cells are blank where fewer than five photos exist for a location
- One row per location ID — no additional rows created
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want photos written one per row rather than across columns
For each TripAdvisor location ID in column A, fetch up to 5 photos and write each as its own row in the Photos worksheet — columns for location ID, attraction name, photo rank, large-size URL, and caption
You want original-size URLs and photographer credits alongside the images
For each TripAdvisor location ID in column A, fetch up to 5 photos and write the original-size image URL, caption, and photographer username into columns B, C, and D for each photo
Some location IDs may return no photos — you want those flagged rather than left blank
For each location ID in column A, fetch up to 5 TripAdvisor photos, write the large-size URLs into columns B through F for locations that have photos, and write "no photos" in column B for any location that returns zero results
You want the photo pull plus a check against assets already in your CMS
For each TripAdvisor location ID in column A, fetch up to 5 large-size photo URLs and write them into columns B through F, then for each URL check whether it appears in column A of the ExistingAssets worksheet and write "existing" or "new" in the corresponding Status columns
Combining the retrieval with the inventory check gives the developer a workbook they can action immediately.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook where your attraction location IDs live, then ask it to pull the top 5 large-size photo URLs for each one. You can also ask it to pull full location details for the same list or to fetch bookable activities for the destinations these attractions belong to.