Owner routes come first in travel review monitoring: Google's Business Profile API lists all reviews of a location for bulk audits. A proxy fits one narrow job: seeing a public listing as another market sees it, where the site allows it. For that, about 50 GB of residential traffic cost $0.50 to $3.19 per GB on October 26, 2026. The HProxy Lite pool costs $0.45 per GB for 50 GB. The review sites set firm rules for crawlers. Tripadvisor's robots.txt shuts out 15 named crawlers entirely and closes review paths such as /AllReviews to all others, and Trustpilot's tells every crawler it does not name to read nothing.
The sections below cover the owner routes, the review sites' rules, where a proxy fits, and which proxies fit.
How should a hotel monitor its own reviews?
Through the owner routes first. Google's Business Profile API lets an owner "list all reviews of a location to audit reviews in bulk". It also lets the owner reply to a review and get reviews from several locations at once. Before any call, the owner must "register your application and obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials".
| Route | What it gives | Who can use it |
|---|---|---|
| Google Business Profile API | all reviews of your locations | the listing owner |
| Review sites' owner tools | your own listing's reviews | the listing owner |
| Reputation platforms | reviews across sites | paying customers |
Owner routes give the full text, the rating and the reply thread, with the platform's permission behind them.
What do review sites' robots files say?
Mostly no to crawlers. We read two review sites' robots.txt files on October 26, 2026:
- Tripadvisor. Its first group names 15 crawlers, among them GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and Bytespider, with "Disallow: /". For all other crawlers, it closes review paths such as /AllReviews, /ExpandedUserReviews and /MobileShowUserReviews.
- Trustpilot. Named search crawlers get detailed rules, such as "Disallow: /reviews/". Its closing group reads "User-agent: *" with "Disallow: /".
The robots standard itself, RFC 9309, does not treat these files as access control, so each site's terms decide the rest. Our pages on proxies for Tripadvisor and proxies for Yelp cover those sites one at a time.
Where does a proxy fit in review monitoring?
In a narrow place. Review sites run country versions in many languages, so a public listing can read differently elsewhere. A residential exit in that market shows the local view, on a site that allows the visit. A logged-in owner account needs one stable address, which a static ISP address gives.
An exit in another country shows that country's version of a page. Closed paths stay closed, and every term of the site stays in force.
What are the best residential proxies for review checks by market?
Pools with country targeting at a modest monthly volume. We read each seller's own pricing page on October 26, 2026:
| Seller | Price per GB, Oct 26 | Why it fits review checks |
|---|---|---|
| HProxy Lite | $0.50/GB from 1 GB | country, never expires |
| Rainproxy | $0.60 at 10 GB, $0.50 at 50 GB | traffic never expires |
| Evomi | $0.99 from 15 GB | city and ISP included |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 from 5 GB | free country targeting |
| MarsProxies | $3.99 at 10 GB, $3.19 at 50 GB | city targeting |
| HProxy Premium | $1.45/GB from 1 GB | state and city |
At about 50 GB a month, the four sellers we read spread more than sixfold:
Our best residential proxies page prices ten sellers at 10 GB and at 100 GB.
What should a review record hold?
Enough to compare like with like, across platforms, markets and months:
- Where it came from. The platform, the listing URL and the market or language version.
- What it says. The review id, the date, the rating and the text in its original language.
- What happened next. Whether the property replied, and when.
- When you saw it. The time of the read in UTC, since reviews can be edited or removed.
Records from an owner route carry most of this already. Keep the same fields for every platform, so a rating drop in one market stands out against the rest.
What does HProxy offer for review checks?
Residential Lite targets by country, from $0.50 for one GB down to $0.23/GB at 10,000 GB+. Premium adds state, city and ASN targeting from $1.45/GB. Both bill by the GB, and the balance never expires. The free proxy checker tests an address. For prices instead of reviews, see proxies for hotel rate monitoring and how to scrape hotel prices.
What this page could not check
- Nothing measured. We ran no review collection and measured no seller's network, our own included.
- Tripadvisor's owner tools. Its developer pages refused our crawler, so this page does not describe them.
- Booking.com. Its reviews API page served no readable text to us.
- Seller figures unconfirmed. The prices are those printed on October 26, 2026, and no order was placed with any seller.
- Not legal advice. Review sites' terms and the law differ by platform and country.
- Next read by January 26, 2027. Robots files, owner APIs and prices move, so each figure gets a fresh look by then.
Sources
- Google for Developers, Business Profile API, Work with review data, updated August 28, 2026, read October 26, 2026.
- Tripadvisor, robots.txt of tripadvisor.com, read October 26, 2026.
- Trustpilot, robots.txt of trustpilot.com, read October 26, 2026.
- IETF, RFC 9309, Robots Exclusion Protocol, September 2022.
- Rainproxy, Evomi, DataImpulse and MarsProxies, residential pricing pages, read October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, residential and ISP product pages and price list, read October 26, 2026.
