The Scenario
You're a travel writer and your editor wants a "Top Hotels in Lisbon" guide live on the site by next Friday. You need 20 hotels, ranked by TripAdvisor rating, with names, ratings, review counts, addresses, and a representative photo URL in a formatted sheet — that's the content input for the CMS template. You've done this before. The last time you compiled a guide like this you spent a full afternoon clicking through TripAdvisor pages, copying data into a spreadsheet, then formatting everything by hand. Your deadline is tighter this time.
The bad version:
- Search TripAdvisor for "hotels in Lisbon," scroll through the results, open each listing in a new tab.
- Copy the name, rating, review count, and address from each listing. Hunt for a photo URL in the page source.
- Stop at hotel 12 to realize you accidentally sorted by "most reviewed" not "top rated" and have to start over.
Friday is six days away and you haven't started the actual writing yet.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. Open a blank sheet, open the SheetXAI sidebar, and ask it to do the search and fill the results directly.
Search TripAdvisor for hotels in Lisbon, take the top 20 results ranked by rating, and fill my sheet with name, overall rating, number of reviews, address, and one photo URL per row.
What You Get
- 20 rows, one hotel per row, sorted by TripAdvisor rating descending
- Column A: hotel name
- Column B: overall rating (numeric)
- Column C: total review count
- Column D: street address
- Column E: one representative photo URL from TripAdvisor
- Rows where no photo is available: cell left blank rather than broken URL
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
I need hotels in a specific neighborhood, not the whole city
Search TripAdvisor for hotels in the Chiado neighborhood of Lisbon. Take the top 15 results ranked by rating and fill my sheet with name, rating, review count, address, and one photo URL.
I need multiple destination guides — Lisbon, Porto, and Sintra — each in a separate tab
Search TripAdvisor for the top 20 hotels by rating in Lisbon and write results (name, rating, review count, address, photo URL) to the Lisbon tab. Repeat for Porto and write to the Porto tab. Repeat for Sintra and write to the Sintra tab.
I want both hotels and boutique guesthouses, not just large hotels
Search TripAdvisor for accommodations in Lisbon — including hotels, guesthouses, and bed and breakfasts. Take the top 20 results ranked by rating and fill my sheet with property name, type (hotel/guesthouse/B&B), rating, review count, address, and one photo URL.
Pull the top venues, filter by minimum review threshold, and tag budget vs. premium in one shot
Search TripAdvisor for hotels in Lisbon ranked by rating. From the top 30 results, include only hotels with at least 200 reviews. Fill my sheet with name, rating, review count, address, and photo URL. Add a final column that tags each hotel as "Premium" if the rating is 4.7 or above, and "Recommended" for everything else.
One prompt handles the search, the filter, the fill, and the classification.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a blank sheet before you start your next destination guide. Ask SheetXAI to pull the top-rated venues and have the content spreadsheet ready in under a minute. Also useful: bulk-enrich a venue list with ratings and contact details, or see the TripAdvisor Content API hub.