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 their 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 sheet in the handoff folder. It has the parent location ID for New York City. Nothing else.
The bad version:
- Find the Tripadvisor API endpoint for geographic children, construct the call for the NYC parent ID, parse the response
- Copy the child location IDs, names, and types out of the JSON and paste them into the sheet one at a time
- Realize the response has 30-plus children and you have no good way to batch-paste structured JSON into separate columns without importing it as a whole object and reformatting it from scratch
The media buyer needs this broken down by district type, not as a flat JSON blob. And the analyst who understood the original methodology is no longer in Slack.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, calls the Tripadvisor geographic hierarchy endpoint for the parent location ID you specify, 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:
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 sheet
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, ordered as the API returns them
- If the parent has no geographic children, a note is written to the cell
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You need geographic children for multiple parent cities on separate tabs
For each parent location ID in column A of the Destinations tab, get the TripAdvisor geographic sub-regions and write each child's ID, name, and location type into a new sheet named after the city in column B
You want only districts, not all child types
Fetch the immediate geographic children of TripAdvisor location ID 60763, filter to only children with location type "district" or "neighborhood," and write their IDs, names, and types into this sheet
You want to add a campaign-region classification column alongside the Tripadvisor data
Fetch the geographic children of TripAdvisor location ID 60763, write each child's ID, name, and type into columns A, B, and C, then in column D classify each one as "Manhattan," "Outer Borough," or "Unknown" based on common knowledge of NYC geography
You want the full hierarchy plus a count of hotels in each district for media planning
Fetch the immediate geographic children of TripAdvisor location ID 60763 and write their IDs, names, and types into the Districts tab, then for each district location ID fetch nearby hotels and write the hotel count into column D of the Districts tab
Adding the hotel density step turns a territory list into a media planning input.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the handoff sheet with your parent location IDs, then ask it to fetch the geographic sub-regions and write them out with IDs, names, and types. You can also ask it to follow up by pulling hotel or activity counts for each district in the same session.