Tripadvisor Restaurant Scraper

Scraper to extract restaurant details from Tripadvisor.com using Python and SelectorLib

Details to extract

1. Restaurant Name
2. Restaurant Link
3. Cuisine
4. Price
5. Rating
6. Number of reviews

Prerequisites

Install Python 3 and Pip. Follow the guides below:

• Linux – http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install3/linux/
• Mac – http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install3/osx/
• Windows  – https://www.scrapehero.com/how-to-install-python3-in-windows-10/ Packages
• PIP to install the following packages in Python (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ )
• Python Requests, to make requests and download the HTML content of the pages ( http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/install/).
• SelectorLib to take the YAML file as input and parse the HTML. (Learn how to install that here https://selectorlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Code

https://github.com/scrapehero-code/tripadvisor-scraper/blob/master/tripadvisor_restaurants.py

Export Product Data into CSV

Execute the full code by typing the script name followed by a -h in command prompt or terminal:

positional arguments:
  url         Tripadvisor Listing URL

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Here is the command to extract the first-page of restaurant listings in Boston, MA.:

python3 tripadvisor.py https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60745-Boston_Massachusetts.html

Output

Sample Output