Importing Your TripIt Data Into Tripsy

UPDATE - 24th September, 2026

It appears TripIt have, at least for now, restored their API for developers to use and we've been able to confirm that new connections can once again be made and our import functionality is working as it was prior to the removal of the API.

Of course, given it took nearly a month for this to be restored, we can't guarantee this won't be removed again and so we're keeping the information about alternatives available in this guide.

If further outages take place, we'll add an update here.

TripIt API Outage - 29th August, 2026

As of August 29, 2026, at 12:31 UTC, TripIt began returning a 404 error when users attempt to connect their accounts to third-party services, including Tripsy. This means that any new connections to TripIt from within Tripsy would fail and you wouldn't have been able to import your data via the normal import option.

If you had previously connected your TripIt account to Tripsy, your imports would still happen as normal as you'd already made the connection.

Importing via Our TripIt Importer

If you're new to Tripsy and have been using TripIt to plan previous trips, or maybe your business uses TripIt for travel planning and you'd like to also have this data in Tripsy, we offer an automated import tool to bring over your trips and activities from TripIt into Tripsy.

To set this up:

• Open Tripsy's settings from the trips list by tapping your profile icon at the top-right of the list.
• Scroll down to Automations and tap TripIt Importer
• Tap Connect TripIt Account
• You'll be taken to the TripIt login page to authenticate and allow access to your TripIt account.

Once connected, your TripIt data will begin to import; depending on how many trips and plans you have this may take some time.

Other Ways To Import Your Data.

Whilst our TripIt import works really well, given the recent issues we can't guarantee the stability of TripIt's API. Similarly, TripIt do not provide any kind of export option within their web interface, you may be able to request your data from them in a JSON format. This is especially true in countries and regions with GDPR like regulations, where data portability is a requirement under those regulations - this notably includes the UK, EU, and Australia.

Importing the Data Export (If Available)

If you can get a copy of your data, you can use your AI tool of choice to process this and import this into Tripsy using our MCP server connection.

Of course, if you prefer not to use any AI tools, we absolutely understand that and for our PRO customers, we'd be happy to import that data for you manually if Tripit's API is unavailable to you. Just reach out to us via Settings > Talk to Us and we'll discuss the next steps.

Using AI Tools to 'Scrape' The Data

Even if you can't get a copy of your data, there's still some options and we're hearing very positive results from customers who use tools like Claude to effectively login to their TripIt account in a browser session and scrape the data which can then be imported into Tripsy.

Your experiences will differ depending on the tools you choose to use, and to be transparent, you will likely require some form of paid subscription to, or a number of 'tokens' for, an AI tool unless you're hosting your own solution (in which case, you probably already have the skills to handle the import).

However, from our own testing, the process looks a bit like this with Claude Cowork.

• Make sure you're using Claude Pro.
• Connect Tripsy to Claude
• Install the Claude Chrome extension to your browser, as long as it's Chromium based (Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, for example) you should be able to use this.
• Create a new prompt in Cowork mode

• As an example, you could use the following:

  "Using my logged in session at https://www.tripit.com/app/trips?trips_filter=past&page=1 please convert all trips to JSON, in a format that the Tripsy MCP server can understand and turn into trips with all activities."

• Cowork should then guide you through the process, our experience is that it will ask to do a try run with a few trips first so you can ensure everything is imported.

Of course, we can't provide detailed support for this process, but we'll be happy to do our best to help where we can.

Frequently Asked Questions

Importing TripIt Data via JSON or AI Tools

• Why can't Tripsy just do the scraping of the browser for me?
  • Because we would need to have your full TripIt credentials and unrestricted access to your account and frankly that's not an area we want to explore as it means taking responsibility for credentials to a third-party service.. Additionally, we would have to use the same AI tools you would and this would become incredibly time and resource consuming for us as a small indie developer.
• If the API Breaks, Can't you just hack something together?
  • There's all sorts of issues with this, and whilst it's possible we could, we couldn't guarantee it would work, and it would likely be against TripIt's terms of service. Whilst we strongly object to their remove of the API, we still have to act within reasonable bounds.
• Why do I need to be a PRO customer to send you my exported TripIt data?
  • Because our TripIt importer is a PRO feature, and the work involved is manual and requires the team to take time away from development. We do treat our manual TripCase import option in the same way.

Importing via A TripIt Connection from within Tripsy

• Does Tripsy have access to my TripIt email and password?
  • No, if you previously connected to TripIt, Tripsy does not have access to your email and password. When you first authenticate to TripIt, we request an access token to retrieve data from TripIt, this token can be revoked by you at any time from within your TripIt settings.
• Does Tripsy send updated trips and activities back to TripIt?
  • No, Tripsy is designed to read the existing data in your TripIt account and does not add or modify any trips or activities (plans) on your TripIt account, This is a one-way automatic import only.
• Does Tripsy automatically check my TripIt account for new data?
  • Yes, if you were able to connect before TripIt stopped accepting new connections, we'll check your TriptIt account on a daily basis to get the latest information and import this into Tripsy if the trip in question doesn't already exist.
• Will trips in TripIt that I'm not the traveller on be imported into Tripsy?
  • No, the TripIt API only provides us with trips where you're the traveller, even if you own that trip.