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VRBO covers the vacation-rental side: listing reviews, with property IDs resolvable straight from a listing URL. Here the reviews endpoint pours that text into Looker Studio as sortable rows.
Looker Studio reads best from a data source that refreshes itself. The reliable pattern is a Google Sheet in the middle: a script fills it on a schedule, Looker Studio treats it as a live table. On this page it holds VRBO reviews, refreshed from one endpoint call.
The VRBO Listing Reviews endpoint returns clean JSON for one listing. Send your key in the X-API-Key header. See the
endpoint docs for every parameter.
Create a StayAPI account and copy your API key from the dashboard.
Load the API response into a Google Sheet with the Apps Script below, on a time-driven trigger.
In Looker Studio, add that sheet as a data source.
Build your report; it re-reads the sheet on each refresh.
This uses the real endpoint URL with the example listing id. Swap in your listing id and your API key.
function refreshData() { var url = "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/vrbo/listing/reviews/19006312"; var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, { method: "get", headers: { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY" }, muteHttpExceptions: true }); var body = JSON.parse(response.getContentText()); var records = (body.data && body.data.reviews) || body.reviews || body.rooms || []; var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); sheet.clear(); sheet.appendRow(["retrieved_at", "id", "rating", "rating_text", "title"]); var now = new Date(); records.forEach(function (r) { sheet.appendRow([now, r.id, r.rating, r.rating_text, r.title]); }); }
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Each field from the VRBO Listing Reviews response, and a suggested column name.
The fields from the mapping above land as columns: property_id, total_reviews, page, page_size. Refreshed on the schedule you set.
Every row is one listing record from the VRBO Listing Reviews response. These fields become columns:
Sign up, copy your key into the snippet above, and pull live VRBO reviews into Looker Studio.
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