The Scenario
You work at a travel agency and you have been collecting Tripadvisor location IDs for months — from client inquiries, from past itineraries, from a scrape someone ran six months ago. The sheet has 50 IDs in column A and nothing else. No names, no addresses, no links. A client is coming in next week and wants to review a curated property list.
Your manager asked you to have it 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 the name, address, rating, category, and URL in the JSON response
- Paste each field into the correct column in the sheet, move to location ID two
- Reach row 20, discover that four of your IDs return a "location not found" error, decide whether to leave those rows blank or track down replacement IDs, lose 25 minutes investigating
Fifty rows of manual API lookups is not a morning task. It is a day task that crowds out the actual client preparation work.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads column A, calls the Tripadvisor location details endpoint for each ID, and writes the name, address, rating, category, and URL into the adjacent columns — all in one pass.
Here is the prompt for this specific task:
For each location ID in column A of this sheet, 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
What You Get
- Column B: Location name
- Column C: Full formatted address
- Column D: Overall rating
- Column E: Total review count
- Column F: Price level (budget indicator where applicable)
- Column G: Direct Tripadvisor URL
- 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
Some IDs in column A have trailing spaces or extra characters that cause lookup failures
For each location ID in column A, trim any whitespace and extra characters, then fetch the TripAdvisor location details and write name, full address, rating, review count, and TripAdvisor URL into columns B through F
You want the enriched data on a new tab rather than filling into the same sheet
For each location ID in column A of the IDs tab, fetch TripAdvisor location details and write location ID, name, category, full address, rating, and URL as rows in a new tab called Enriched Properties
You want to categorize each property as hotel, restaurant, or attraction based on the returned category
For each location ID in column A, fetch the TripAdvisor location details and write name, address, rating, and URL into columns B through E, then in column F write "hotel," "restaurant," or "attraction" based on the category returned
You want the full enrichment plus a short description of each property for a client-facing document
For each location ID in column A, fetch TripAdvisor location details — name, address, rating, review count, price level, 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
Two sentences per property across 50 rows would take an afternoon to write manually. As part of the same prompt, it is handled in the same pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Google Sheet where your collected Tripadvisor location IDs live, then ask it to fill in the name, address, rating, review count, price level, and URL for all of them. You can also ask it to pull award history or recent reviews for the same list.