vrbo-availability

Check day-by-day Vrbo availability (the booking calendar) for a known listing over a date window. Use when a user asks whether a listing on Vrbo is open on specific dates. Powered by StayingAPI.

Check day-by-day availability for a known Vrbo listing — the booking calendar over any date window.

Setup

If $STAYINGAPI_KEY is not set, read references/auth-setup.md and follow it to get and store the key. A stay_test_ sandbox key works for evaluation at zero cost.

When to use this skill

DO use when the user asks:

• "Is this Vrbo listing free the first week of August?"
• "Show the calendar for this Vrbo place"

Do NOT use when:

• You do not yet have a listing id — search first
• The user wants a price, not open/closed dates — use the prices skill

Required headers

Every request needs:

• Authorization: Bearer $STAYINGAPI_KEY
• User-Agent: your agent's name (e.g. ClaudeCode/1.0).

Base URL: https://api.stayingapi.com/v1.

Tools

GET /v1/availability

Get day-by-day availability for a known listing (or a batch of listings) on one platform over a date window. Each day reports whether it is available, its minimum-night requirement, and whether check-in / check-out / booking is allowed.

Key parameters:

• platform — Single platform (not a fan-out endpoint).
• listingId — A single listing id on platform.
• listingIds[] — A batch of listing ids on platform.
• url — Full listing URL (alternative to an id).
• startDate — YYYY-MM-DD; not in the past.
• endDate — After startDate; window ≤ 365 days.

MCP (no key pasted into the agent)

On an MCP-capable runtime, connect https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp (OAuth 2.1 + PKCE) and use: check_availability.

The cross-OTA advantage

StayingAPI is cross-platform: Vrbo data comes back in the same unified schema as Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels, and the price-compare tool returns a computed min and median across every OTA — something a single-platform wrapper can't do.

Async & partial failures

A live call that has to scrape returns 202 + a jobId; poll GET /v1/jobs/{jobId} (free) until data.status is completed, then read data.result. On a fan-out, check meta.partial and meta.platformResults[].

Credits

Number-free by design — failed, empty and blocked calls are never billed, and stay_test_ sandbox calls are always free. Current costs: https://stayingapi.com/pricing · full contract: https://api.stayingapi.com/openapi.json.

Trademark

StayingAPI is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vrbo. Vrbo is a trademark of its respective owner.

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