Vrbo API · REST + MCP · no channel-manager approval
The Vrbo API the platform won’t give you.
Vrbo has no self-serve public API — only gated channel-manager onboarding for property managers. ScoutingAPI gives you live Vrbo search, availability, and pricing in the same schema as Airbnb, Booking.com, and Google Hotels. Vrbo and Airbnb in one call.
100 credits free · no credit card · failed calls cost 0 credits
GET /v1/search
?location=Murter, HR
&checkIn=2026-07-13&checkOut=2026-07-20
&adults=2&children=2
&platforms=vrbo{
"data": [
{
"id": "stays_vrbo_5663861ha",
"platform": "vrbo",
"platformListingId": "5663861ha",
"url": "https://www.vrbo.com/5663861ha",
"name": "Awesome home in Pirovac with swimming pool",
"propertyType": "house",
"location": { "lat": 43.82, "lng": 15.58, "city": "Murter",
"region": "Sibenik-Knin", "country": "HR" },
"guestRating": 4.8, "ratingScale": 5, "reviewCount": 142,
"maxOccupancy": 8, "bedrooms": 3, "bathrooms": 2,
"amenities": ["pool", "kitchen", "air_conditioning", "wifi", "parking_free", "bbq"],
"host": { "name": "Croatia Retreats", "isSuperhost": false },
"price": { "currency": "EUR", "nightlyPrice": 350, "totalPrice": 2450,
"nights": 7, "fees": { "cleaning": 120, "service": 92, "taxes": 168 } }
}
],
"meta": {
"platforms": ["vrbo"], "cached": false, "creditsCharged": 5, "currency": "EUR",
"platformResults": [{ "platform": "vrbo", "status": "ok", "count": 1 }],
"pagination": { "cursor": null, "hasMore": false }
}
}Show, don’t sell
Real Vrbo data — in a schema you already use for every other platform.
This is an actual /v1/search response for Vrbo. Toggle the platform and the fields don’t change. Write your code once; point it at Vrbo, Airbnb, Booking, or Google.
id + platformStable composite id and the source platform — identical keys everywhere.
guestRating + ratingScaleRating with its native scale (Vrbo 5, Booking 10) so you never mis-compare.
amenities[]One canonical taxonomy — pool, wifi, parking_free, bbq — across every platform.
priceLive nightly + total with a fee breakdown (cleaning, service, taxes) when you pass dates.
host.isSuperhostNormalized host/trust signal, null where a platform has no equivalent.
meta.creditsCharged5 credits per successful platform leg — and 0 on a failed or empty call.
The exact same object shape comes back for platform "airbnb", "booking", or "google" — normalized ratings (always read ratingScale), the canonical amenity vocabulary, and an embedded price when you pass dates. Vrbo, like Airbnb, returns a native 5-point rating; Booking, Expedia & Hotels.com return 10 — we echo ratingScale so you never silently mis-compare Vrbo against a hotel.
Self-serve access
Instant access. No channel-manager. No connectivity application.
Vrbo’s only “API” is partner onboarding through an approved connectivity provider or channel manager — built for property managers, gated, and slow. ScoutingAPI is self-serve: sign up, get a key, make your first Vrbo call in under five minutes.
100 free credits — no credit card
Enough to build and test against real Vrbo responses before you decide anything.
scout_test_ sandbox at zero cost
Deterministic fixtures wire up your integration before you ever spend a credit.
Predictable credits after that
Starter $19 · Pro $99 · Scale $499, or pay-as-you-go top-ups that never expire.
- 1Get your free key
- 2curl the /v1/search example
- 3Ship
The trust wedge
Reliability you can build a product on.
Scrapers and RapidAPI listings give you raw data and a shrug. We run a product — monitoring, multi-actor failover, retries, and caching behind one contract.
99.9% monthly uptime SLA
Committed on the ScoutingAPI response envelope and published on a public status page. Multi-actor failover, retries, and caching sit behind one contract.
Failed calls cost 0 credits
Failed, empty, or blocked calls are never charged. If Vrbo is briefly unreachable you get a typed upstream_unavailable and we charge nothing — not the pay-per-attempt model of raw scrapers.
Honest scope, surfaced in meta
The SLA covers our envelope — accept, authenticate, meter, return a well-formed response. Upstream degradation is surfaced as meta.partial / upstream_unavailable with 0 credits. We don’t bill you for a platform’s bad day.
Runnable in five minutes
curl it, import the SDK, or hand it to your agent.
Every sample is copy-paste runnable against your free key and generated from @scoutingapi/sdk, so it never drifts from the live API.
curl -s -G "https://api.scoutingapi.com/v1/search" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer scout_test_YOUR_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "location=Murter, HR" \
--data-urlencode "checkIn=2026-07-13" \
--data-urlencode "checkOut=2026-07-20" \
--data-urlencode "adults=2" \
--data-urlencode "children=2" \
--data-urlencode "platforms=vrbo" \
--data-urlencode "limit=20"
# Tip: your scout_test_ key returns deterministic fixtures at zero cost.The MCP tab adds ScoutingAPI’s native server (Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 / PKCE) to Claude, Cursor, or n8n — then the agent calls search_properties({ location: "Murter, HR", platforms: ["vrbo", "airbnb"] }) across every platform.
The honest comparison
Vrbo data: scraper, gated connectivity API, analytics tool, or ScoutingAPI?
| Capability | ScoutingAPI | Raw scraper / RapidAPI | Connectivity / channel-manager API | STR analytics (AirROI / AirDNA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access | Self-serve, free key in minutes | Self-serve, but per-actor | Approved PMs only / connectivity-gated | $10 min (AirROI) / ~$50k, sales-gated (AirDNA) |
| Platform coverage | Vrbo + Airbnb + Booking + Google (STR and hotels) | One platform per actor | One platform | Airbnb / Vrbo only (STR) |
| Output schema | One unified schema, every platform | Different shape per actor | Platform-specific | Analytics-specific |
| Live availability & price | Yes — search, availability, price for real dates | Yes (raw) | Varies / gated | No — historical analytics (occupancy, ADR, RevPAR) |
| Cross-OTA price-compare | Yes — one property, every OTA, computed min / median | No | No | No |
| Reliability | 99.9% SLA, status page, failover | None (~86% success, no SLA) | Platform-dependent | Vendor-dependent |
| Failed-call billing | Free — 0 credits | You pay per attempt | n/a | n/a |
| Agent-native (MCP) | First-class MCP + OAuth + Connectors | Bolt-on per actor | No | No |
| Pricing | Predictable credits + free tier | Pay-per-result | Contracts / revenue share | PAYG / enterprise contract |
The honest read: scrapers are powerful but you assemble and babysit the pipeline; connectivity APIs are built for property managers and gated behind approval; analytics tools answer “how did this market perform,” not “what’s bookable now.” ScoutingAPI delivers the answer — Vrbo alongside every platform, in one schema, with an SLA.
Built for real work
What developers and agents build on the Vrbo API.
Not “extract listings data” — the outcomes a specific reader recognizes, with Vrbo and the OTAs in one feed.
STR investment & arbitrage underwriting
Pull live Vrbo nightly rates and availability for a target market, combine with occupancy signals, and underwrite a deal in your own model — across Vrbo and Airbnb, not just one source.
Vrbo-vs-Airbnb competitive pricing
Benchmark a listing’s nightly price against comparable Vrbo and Airbnb inventory for the same dates; feed a pricing engine that sees both closed platforms at once.
Portfolio & market benchmarking
Track a portfolio’s Vrbo listings against the local competitive set — rating, amenities, price, availability — in one normalized feed.
Availability monitoring & price-drop alerts
Poll /v1/availability for a Vrbo property and date range; fire a Slack, email, or Telegram alert on a change or a price drop — shippable from /workflows in minutes.
Multi-platform availability checks
The executive-retreat agency that “stopped checking availability by hand across four platforms” now makes one call and gets Vrbo, Airbnb, Booking, and Google together.
Travel-planning & sourcing agents
Give your AI agent a dependable accommodation tool: “house with a pool near Murter, July 13–20, 2 adults + 2 kids” → real, normalized Vrbo results via the native MCP server.
Answers
Vrbo API — frequently asked questions
The questions developers actually search — answered in full, with FAQ structured data for rich results.
Get your free Vrbo API key.
100 credits, no credit card. First successful call in under five minutes.
No credit card · failed calls cost 0 credits · native MCP included