vrbo-search

Search live Vrbo stays by location, dates and occupancy, returned in one unified schema alongside every other booking platform. Use when a user wants to find Vrbo listings. Powered by the StayingAPI REST API / MCP server.

Search live Vrbo stays via StayingAPI — one call, the same unified schema you use for Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels.

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:

• "Find Vrbo places in Split, HR for mid-July"
• "Search Vrbo for a 2-bed under a budget"

Do NOT use when:

• A location appears incidentally in conversation
• The user has one known listing already — use the availability or 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/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.

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.

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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