Common Errors

Bad Request

Error responses of this type indicate that the request to the API was malformed in some way or that bad input data was provided.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#bad-request",
    "title": "Bad Request",
    "status": 400,
    "detail": "Failed to read request",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint/bad-request",
    "trace_id": "68e3aa514e89b2474781dd2884ecb2f4"
}

Constraint Violation

Error responses of this type typically indicate that the request to the API was malformed (e.g. missing parameters, or invalid parameter type/name/value). Usually contains extra field_errorsarray field consisting of validation errors per field.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#constraint-violation",
    "title": "Parameter is not valid",
    "status": 400,
    "detail": "name: size must be between 3 and 10",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint/no",
    "field_errors": [
        {
            "field": "name",
            "message": "size must be between 3 and 10",
            "object_name": "name",
            "rejected_value": "no"
        }
    ],
    "trace_id": "68e3a7e320aa837e098a39716e3c1bea",
    "message": "Validation error"
}

Forbidden Access

Error responses of this type most likely mean the provided API key does not have access to the requested API endpoint.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#forbidden-access",
    "title": "Forbidden",
    "status": 403,
    "detail": "Access Denied",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint/forbidden",
    "trace_id": "68e3aaa6645d68993802b810d55f1eda",
    "message": "API Key does not have access to endpoint"
}

Resource Not Found

Error responses of this type indicate the requested resource was not found.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#resource-not-found",
    "title": "Not Found",
    "status": 404,
    "detail": "Custom details",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint/404",
    "trace_id": "68e3aac49cfaf11226bfcca58c2b4433"
}

Too Many Requests

Errors indicating about trespassing Rate Limits, configured for the supplied API_KEY.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#too-many-requests",
    "title": "Too Many Requests",
    "status": 429,
    "detail": "Custom details",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint/429",
    "trace_id": "68e3aafe4eeb7d54441934d46863fa0e"
}

Internal Server Error

Error responses of this type mean that an unpredictable situation happened in the API.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#internal-server-error",
    "title": "Internal Server Error",
    "status": 500,
    "detail": "Something went wrong",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint/500",
    "trace_id": "68e3abeddd1ccfd426919b76d00d9c65"
}

Unauthorized

Error responses of this type indicate that credentials (API key) were not provided or are invalid.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#unauthorized",
    "title": "Unauthorized",
    "status": 401,
    "detail": "API key is not provided",
    "instance": "/test-endpoint",
    "trace_id": "68e3ac3bf00cf217e8788cf7ea9f7ef0"
}

Content-specific

Geo Not Found

Parent of this error type is Resource Not Found error type. Geo data type specific only. Includes ids field.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#/geo-not-found",
    "title": "Geo not found",
    "status": 404,
    "detail": "No geo could be found for the supplied ids",
    "instance": "/geos/123,456,789",
    "trace_id": "68e3af3b7942a306aacfd6ec53370b51",
    "ids": [
        123,
        456,
        789
    ]
}

Location Not Found

Parent of this error type is Resource Not Found error type. Location data type specific only. Includes ids field.

{
    "type": "https://tripadvisor-content.readme.io/reference/errors#/location-not-found",
    "title": "Location not found",
    "status": 404,
    "detail": "No location could be found for the supplied ids",
    "instance": "/locations/123,456,789",
    "trace_id": "68e3aeb2ec4a3da7f04132e25b4af2b7",
    "ids": [
        123,
        456,
        789
    ]
}

Additional

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Each error response consists of (but is not limited to) the following fields:

type– The type of the problem. (current page is the full list of all types)

title– The main message (title) of the problem.

status– The advisory JSON number indicating the HTTP status code.

detail– Detail message describing the occurred problem.

instance– The JSON string containing a URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.

trace_id– Trace (request) ID of the request caused the error.