VRBO API

The VRBO API for vacation-rental reviews.

Q: Is the VRBO API free?

You get 100 free requests on signup, both endpoints included, no credit card. After that it is flat monthly plans starting at $49. One request equals one credit, with no per-endpoint multipliers.

Pull listing reviews, ratings, sentiment tags, and host responses from VRBO as clean JSON, and resolve any VRBO URL to a property_id.

REQUEST GET

USE CASE Paginated reviews for a VRBO listing by property_id, sorted newest-first.

curl "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/vrbo/listing/reviews/19006312" \
  -G \
  -H "x-api-key: $STAYAPI_KEY" \
  -d "page=1" \
  -d "page_size=10" \
  -d "sort_by=newest"

USE CASE Resolve a VRBO listing URL to the property_id the reviews endpoint expects.

curl "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/vrbo/listing/extract-id" \
  -G \
  -H "x-api-key: $STAYAPI_KEY" \
  -d "url=https://www.vrbo.com/19006312?arrival=2025-01-01"

RESPONSE 200 OK

2.41s

{
  "property_id": "19006312",
  "total_reviews": 15,
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 10,
  "has_more": true,
  "sort_by": "newest",
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": "review_123456",
      "rating": 10,
      "rating_text": "Excellent",
      "title": "Perfect beach getaway!",
      "text": "This property exceeded all our expectations. The views were stunning and the host was incredibly helpful throughout our stay.",
      "reviewer_name": "Sarah J.",
      "verified": true,
      "sentiments": [
        "Great location",
        "Clean",
        "Responsive host"
      ],
      "host_response": "Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We're thrilled you enjoyed your stay."
    }
  ]
}

{
  "success": true,
  "property_id": "19006312",
  "url": "https://www.vrbo.com/19006312?arrival=2025-01-01"
}

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Overview

What the VRBO API gives you.

VRBO has no public data API for the guest reviews vacation-rental managers actually want to track. The usual answer is a scraping stack: headless browsers, rotating proxies, and a parser that breaks every time the listing page changes. VRBO is a vacation-rental marketplace, so the unit is a listing, not a hotel.

StayAPI is that layer, run for you. You send a property_id or a VRBO listing URL and get structured JSON back: review text and ratings, sentiment tags like "Great location" and "Clean", verified-stay flags, and host responses. The same data, the same shape, on every call. This is a reviews and id-resolution API, and we say so plainly.

One key, both endpoints.

x-api-key in, JSON out. Listing reviews and URL-to-ID resolution behind one base URL. No SDK to install.

We run the hard part.

Fetching, parsing, proxy rotation, and source uptime are ours. You consume normalized JSON and never touch a headless browser.

Real-time, not cached.

Every call hits VRBO live, so review counts and host responses are current to the request, not a stale nightly snapshot.

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Endpoints

Every VRBO endpoint, one base URL.

Each returns normalized JSON in the same shape. Click any endpoint for parameters, an example response, and a live playground.

GET Listing reviews /v1/vrbo/listing/reviews/{property_id} Paginated guest reviews with rating, sentiment tags, verified-stay flag, and host responses. GET Extract listing ID /v1/vrbo/listing/extract-id Resolve the property_id from any VRBO listing URL, query strings and all.

Browse the full VRBO docs

Use cases

What teams build on the VRBO API.

The same endpoints, pointed at different jobs. These are the ones we see most.

Review monitoring for rental managers.

Stream new VRBO reviews for every listing you manage into your dashboard, sorted newest-first, with verified-stay flags and host responses attached.

Reputation and sentiment analysis.

Run topic clustering and sentiment scoring on the full review text and the VRBO sentiment tags to see what guests praise and what they flag.

Comp-set benchmarking for short-term rentals.

Benchmark a listing against nearby rentals on rating and review volume using the same fields for every property_id.

AI agents and review context.

Feed structured VRBO review text and ratings into an LLM tool call so your agent answers from live guest feedback, not stale embeddings.

Pricing

100 free requests on signup.
Pick a plan when you need more.

Flat monthly plans, every endpoint included on every plan. 1 request = 1 credit. No per-endpoint multipliers, no surprise overages.

01 Free

Wire it up. See the schema.

$0 to start

100 free requests on signup
Every endpoint included
No credit card required
Same schema as paid

Start free

02 Basic

Kick the tires in production.

$49 per month

1,500 requests / month
Every endpoint included
Per-endpoint usage dashboard
Email support

Start Basic

What people ask about the VRBO API.

Don't see your question? Email us at info@stayapi.com.

Does VRBO have a public API?

VRBO (part of Expedia Group) has no public data API for pulling guest reviews or listing data. Access is gated and aimed at connectivity partners, not at teams that want review text and ratings over plain REST. StayAPI gives you that data with a key you get in 30 seconds.

How do I get VRBO reviews?

Call /v1/vrbo/listing/reviews/{property_id} with a VRBO property_id. You get paginated review text, ratings on a 1 to 10 scale, sentiment tags, verified-stay flags, and host responses as JSON. Sort with sort_by (recommended, newest, highest, lowest). See the listing reviews docs.

How do I get a VRBO listing ID?

Call /v1/vrbo/listing/extract-id with any VRBO listing URL and it returns the property_id, query strings and all. The ID also sits in the URL path itself, for example https://www.vrbo.com/19006312 resolves to 19006312. See the extract ID docs.

Is the VRBO API free?

You get 100 free requests on signup, both endpoints included, no credit card. After that it is flat monthly plans starting at $49. One request equals one credit, with no per-endpoint multipliers.

Two ways to start.

Both end with live VRBO data in your stack. The fast path is on the left.

01 · the fast path

Try it free

100 free requests after sign up. Fastest way to see if the schema fits.