tripadvisor

Search TripAdvisor hotels

Searches TripAdvisor hotels in a destination, with filters for nightly price band, hotel class, guest rating, and property type. Returns a unified PlaceList: name, category, and the url_path you pass to /v1/tripadvisor/hotel or /v1/tripadvisor/reviews. Note this lane returns no star rating and no review count per result - chain /v1/tripadvisor/hotel for those, or use /v1/tripadvisor/restaurants and /v1/tripadvisor/attractions, whose results do carry ratings.

get/tripadvisor/hotels

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tripadvisor/hotels
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

qstring required

City, region, or destination, e.g. 'Paris'.

depthinteger

Number of hotels to retrieve (default 30, max 100).

sort_by'BEST_VALUE' | 'RANKED' | 'PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH' | 'DISTANCE'

Ordering: BEST_VALUE | RANKED | PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH | DISTANCE.

price_mininteger

Minimum nightly price. Omit for no minimum.

price_maxinteger

Maximum nightly price. Omit for no maximum.

star_rating_min'any' | '0' | '1' | '2' | '3' | '4' | '5'

Minimum hotel class: any | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5.

review_score_min'any' | '3' | '3.5' | '4' | '4.5' | '5'

Minimum guest rating: any | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 5.

property_type'any' | 'hotel' | 'resort' | 'apartment' | 'villa' | 'hostel' | 'guest_house' | 'bed_and_breakfast'

Property type: any | hotel | resort | apartment | villa | hostel | guest_house | bed_and_breakfast.

currencystring

Optional 3-letter currency code, e.g. 'USD'.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "tripadvisor",
  "endpoint": "/v1/tripadvisor/hotels",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

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