The Scenario
A tourism board analyst inherited a regional campaign planning project from a colleague who left last month. The brief calls for a district-level breakdown of New York City as Tripadvisor defines it — every neighborhood and sub-region with location IDs and types — to feed into a territory mapping exercise. The campaign goes to the media buyer in two weeks.
There is a half-finished workbook in the handoff folder. It has the parent location ID for New York City. Nothing else.
The bad version:
- Find the Tripadvisor geographic hierarchy endpoint, construct the API call for the NYC parent ID, parse the response
- Copy child location IDs, names, and types out of the JSON and paste them into the workbook one at a time
- Realize the response has 30-plus children and you have no clean way to batch-paste structured JSON into separate columns without importing it as a flat object and reformatting from scratch
The media buyer needs this broken out by district type, not as a JSON blob. And the analyst who understood the original structure is no longer answering messages.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook, calls the Tripadvisor geographic hierarchy endpoint for your parent location ID, and writes each child location's ID, name, and type into separate columns — ready for sorting and filtering.
Here is the prompt for this specific task:
For each parent location ID in column A of my Excel sheet, get the TripAdvisor geographic sub-regions and write each child's ID, name, and location type into new rows in a results tab
What You Get
- Column A: Child location ID
- Column B: Location name (neighborhood, district, or sub-region)
- Column C: Location type as returned by Tripadvisor
- One row per child location, organized by parent location ID if multiple parents are in column A
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You have a single parent ID rather than a column and want the results in the current worksheet
Fetch the immediate geographic children of TripAdvisor location ID 60763 (New York City) and write each child location's ID, name, and type into this worksheet
You want to filter to only neighborhoods and districts, excluding other location types
For each parent location ID in column A, get the TripAdvisor geographic children, filter to only those with location type "district" or "neighborhood," and write their IDs, names, and types into the Results worksheet
You need geographic children for multiple parent cities on separate worksheets
For each parent location ID in column A of the Destinations worksheet, get the TripAdvisor geographic sub-regions and write each child's ID, name, and location type into a new worksheet named after the city in column B
You want the full hierarchy plus hotel counts per district for media planning
Fetch the immediate geographic children of TripAdvisor location ID 60763 and write their IDs, names, and types into the Districts worksheet, then for each district location ID fetch nearby hotels and write the count into column D of the Districts worksheet
Hotel density per district turns a territory list into a media planning input.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the handoff workbook with your parent location IDs, then ask it to fetch the geographic sub-regions and write them with IDs, names, and types. You can follow up in the same session by asking it to pull hotel or activity counts for each district.