How to Get Airbnb Listing Data With an API (2026 Guide)

If you have ever tried to get structured Airbnb listing data at scale, you already know the problem. Airbnb has no public API for listing content. The pages are rendered client-side, the markup changes without notice, and a single listing spreads its photos, reviews, host details, amenities, availability, and pricing across half a dozen lazy-loaded fragments. Build a scraper and you have signed up to maintain it forever.

This guide shows the alternative: pulling the same data through a single REST API that returns a clean, predictable JSON shape. We will cover what data is available, how to make your first call, how to search across a city, and how to think about cost and reliability.

What counts as “Airbnb listing data”?

A single Airbnb stay is really a bundle of sub-resources. When people ask for “listing data,” they usually mean some subset of:

Core details — title, description, property type, capacity, coordinates
Photos — full-resolution image URLs with captions and room tags
Reviews — rating breakdowns and individual guest reviews
Host info — name, superhost status, response rate, other listings
Amenities — the normalized list of what the place offers
Availability — the booking calendar for a date range
Pricing — nightly rate, fees, and totals for given dates

The hard part of doing this yourself is not fetching one field — it is fetching all of them, consistently, for thousands of listings, in a shape your code can rely on. That is exactly the problem a dedicated Airbnb data API solves.

Step 1: Get an API key

With Staying API you get 100 free credits on signup and no credit card is required. Once you are in the dashboard, open API keys, click Create key, and copy the secret — it is shown exactly once.

Keys look like this:

sk_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You authenticate by passing the key as a bearer token on every request. The full walkthrough lives in the quickstart.

Step 2: Fetch a single listing

Every stay has a stable ID — the number in its airbnb.com/rooms/{id} URL. Pass it to the stays endpoint:

curl https://api.stayingapi.com/v1/stays/1135700964697993602 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."

You get back one canonical Stay object:

{
  "data": {
    "id": "1135700964697993602",
    "title": "Beachfront flat in Estoril",
    "pricing": { "price": 184, "currency": "USD" },
    "host": { "is_superhost": true }
  },
  "request_id": "req_..."
}

No HTML, no headless browser, no brittle selectors — just JSON. If you only have a listing URL rather than an ID, you can hand the whole URL to /v1/stays/by-url instead and skip the parsing.

Step 3: Request only the sub-resources you need

You rarely need every field. Each sub-resource is addressable on its own URL, so you only pay for and transfer what you use:

# Just the photos
curl https://api.stayingapi.com/v1/stays/1135700964697993602/photos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."

# Just the reviews
curl https://api.stayingapi.com/v1/stays/1135700964697993602/reviews \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."

The available sub-resources are photos, reviews, host, amenities, availability, pricing, location, and rating. See the Stays reference for the full field list and projection options — you can also narrow a response with a fields parameter when you want, say, only id,title,pricing.price.

Step 4: Search a whole city

Single-listing lookups are great when you already know the IDs. To discover listings, use the search endpoint with a free-text location and optional filters:

curl -X POST https://api.stayingapi.com/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "location": "Lisbon, Portugal",
    "checkIn": "2026-07-01",
    "checkOut": "2026-07-06",
    "priceMax": 250,
    "minBeds": 2
  }'

Search returns a page of matching stays plus a next_page_token for paging through the rest. If you want the search results and their full details in one shot, POST /v1/search/with-details runs both stages for you. The full filter list — capacity, price, bedrooms, bathrooms, currency, locale — is in the Search reference.

A note on cost and scale

Staying API uses prepaid credits rather than per-seat subscriptions, so cost scales with usage and is easy to forecast. A single-stay lookup is 1 credit; a search page is a flat rate covering up to 50 results. Batch lookups settle asynchronously and notify you via webhook when they finish, which is the right pattern when you are pulling thousands of listings. The full breakdown — including worked examples — is on the pricing page.

Scraping vs. an API

If you are weighing whether to build this yourself, the trade-off comes down to maintenance, reliability, and legal posture. We covered it in depth in Airbnb scraping vs. an Airbnb API — worth reading before you commit engineering time to a scraper you will have to babysit.

Where to go next

Quickstart — from zero to your first call in five minutes
Stays reference — every field and sub-resource
Search reference — filters, paging, and projections
Pull pricing and availability data — the dynamic data most teams actually want

Ready to try it? Grab an API key and make your first call against real listing data — 100 credits are on the house.