tripadvisor-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

tripadvisor-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from chrischall/tripadvisor-mcp. It costs 2,684 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for working on the TripAdvisor MCP server. MCP is a way for an AI assistant to use tools provided by another program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying or reviewing this TripAdvisor integration, including its location searches, details, photos, reviews, and website bridge.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project’s layout, conventions, API details, and authentication requirements in one reference.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is chrischall/tripadvisor-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on tripadvisor-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything tripadvisor-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chrischall/tripadvisor-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrischall/tripadvisor-mcp

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CLAUDE.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — tripadvisor-mcp

Guidance for Claude working in this repo.

TL;DR

TripAdvisor Terra API MCP server, plus an optional browser-bridge tier. The primary tier wraps the read-only Terra REST API (https://terra.tripadvisor.com/api) and exposes 5 tools to Claude over stdio: location search, nearby search, location details, photos, and reviews. Terra is TripAdvisor's current API; the legacy Content API is sunset on 2026-08-31 (an earlier build of this repo targeted it — see git history). A second tier reaches the bot-walled consumer site via fetchproxy: ta_web_healthcheck (bridge diagnostics) and ta_web_get_location (location details parsed from the public page's schema.org ld+json — works with no API key, covering attractions/hotels/restaurants). Web-tier shapes are pinned in docs/TRIPADVISOR-WEB-API.md.

Auth for the primary tier is a Terra key (TRIPADVISOR_API_KEY) sent as the X-API-Key header, via a thin custom fetch client (not createApiClient). The key never touches the URL, so cache keys and error messages are key-free by construction. A legacy Content API key gets a 403 on Terra (and vice-versa); that's the tell diagnosed in the 403 error. No writes (Terra has no write endpoints — nothing is confirm-gated because nothing mutates). Terra responses wrap list results as {data:[…], pagination}; the location object keys names/ descriptions/addresses as language-tagged arrays (primary = primary:true).

The web tier (src/web/) is the fleet's fetchproxy archetype: DataDome fronts tripadvisor.com, so those requests run as same-origin fetches in the user's signed-in tab via the bridge (fleet-shared port 37149). @fetchproxy/server is inlined by esbuild (not externalized), so the .mcpb bundle boots bare — guarded by tests/server-boot.test.ts. The primary API tools never touch the bridge.

Environment

TRIPADVISOR_API_KEY=<key>            # Required. A Terra key. Create at https://www.tripadvisor.com/developers
TRIPADVISOR_CACHE_TTL=<secs>         # Optional. Search read-cache TTL (default 300; 0 disables)
TRIPADVISOR_STATIC_CACHE_TTL=<secs>  # Optional. Details/photos/reviews TTL (default 3600; 0 disables)
TRIPADVISOR_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS=<ms>  # Optional. Web-bridge per-request timeout (default 30000)
TRIPADVISOR_DEBUG_LOG=1              # Optional. Log web-bridge requests to stderr
TRIPADVISOR_WS_PORT=<port>           # Optional, tests only. Bridge port override (default 37149)

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tripadvisor-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chrischall/tripadvisor-mcp (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,684 tokens to every session, about $0.0134 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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