Vrbo — Complete Toolkit

Complete Vrbo toolkit — search, availability, listing detail, price, cross-OTA price comparison and reviews, all in one unified schema. Install this when an agent needs broad Vrbo coverage. Powered by StayingAPI.

The everything skill for Vrbo: search, availability, listing detail, price, cross-OTA price comparison and reviews — one key, one schema. Install the focused skills instead when you want a minimal tool surface.

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:

• Any Vrbo data task — the agent picks the right call

Do NOT use when:

• You want the smallest possible tool surface — install a focused 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/search

Discover properties matching a location, dates, occupancy and filters across one or more platforms. Results from every requested platform are normalized to the same Property shape and merged into a single, cursor-paginated list. This is the breadth / funnel endpoint — and the clearest demonstration of "one schema, every platform".

Key parameters:

• location — Place name ("Split, HR") or "lat,lng". Required.
• checkIn — YYYY-MM-DD; required if checkOut given; not in the past.
• checkOut — YYYY-MM-DD; required if checkIn given; must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1.
• children — ≥ 0.
• childAges[] — Length must equal children. Coarsened for Vrbo/Airbnb.

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.

GET /v1/listing/{platform}/{id}

Full normalized detail for one listing: amenities (canonical taxonomy), photos, host, geo, ratings, and — when you pass dates — an embedded live price. The detail body is cached 24 h; any embedded live price is cached at the 1 h price TTL and composed at read time, so a stale price never rides on fresh detail.

Key parameters:

• platform — vrbo | booking | airbnb | google.
• id — Platform-native listing id (case-sensitive, verbatim from source). A bare booking.com slug needs a country — without one it returns 400 needs_country (booking slugs are not globally unique).
• country — ISO-3166 alpha-2 (booking). Disambiguates a bare booking slug without the %2F-encoded /hotel/{cc}/{slug} id — e.g. ?country=co.
• checkIn — Pairs with checkOut; presence embeds a best-effort live price (may be null; the call still bills).
• checkOut — Must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1 (only used with dates).

GET /v1/price

Quote one listing for specific dates and occupancy. Pass the platform-native platformListingId returned by /v1/search — numeric on Airbnb and Vrbo, a slug string on Booking.com and Google (e.g. "abramovic2") — or a full listing URL. The response is always a real numeric price or a typed error — never a wrong property's price.

Key parameters:

• platform — vrbo | booking | airbnb | google.
• listingId — Platform-native id from /v1/search platformListingId — numeric (Airbnb/Vrbo) or a slug string (Booking.com/Google). Or pass a url.
• checkIn — YYYY-MM-DD; not in the past.
• checkOut — Must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1.
• children — ≥ 0.

GET /v1/price-compare

Compare the price of one property across booking platforms in a single call, resolved through the Google Hotels backbone. The response carries the offers plus StayingAPI-computed min and median as first-class fields, so you can read the cheapest and typical cross-OTA price without re-deriving them. No cross-platform short-term-rental price-comparison API exists elsewhere — this is the wedge.

Key parameters:

• name — Property name to resolve.
• googleHotelId — Precise Google Hotels id.
• location — Disambiguating place / "lat,lng".
• checkIn — YYYY-MM-DD; not in the past.
• checkOut — Must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1.

GET /v1/reviews

Normalized, paginated reviews for one listing on one platform. Native rating scales are preserved and echoed alongside each rating (TripAdvisor/Airbnb/Vrbo use 5; Booking.com/Expedia/Hotels.com use 10) — never silently rescaled.

Key parameters:

• platform — Platform enum.
• listingId — Listing id on platform.
• url — Full listing URL.
• limit — 1–100.
• cursor — Opaque base64 cursor.
• language — ISO-639-1 filter.

Filter results to Vrbo by passing platforms=vrbo to the search call.

MCP (no key pasted into the agent)

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

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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