You connect Hostaway to your AI assistant with a small MCP server: a local program that wraps the Hostaway Public API and exposes it as tools. Once connected, Claude, the Gemini CLI, or ChatGPT (via a hosted connector) can read your listings, reservations, calendar, and tasks and answer questions in plain English.
The setup paths
It's free, takes about 20 minutes, and is read-only by default, so the assistant can look but not change anything. The three steps are the same whichever assistant you use:
- Get your API credentials. In Hostaway, open Settings then Hostaway API and copy your Account ID and an API key. The Public API is self-serve, so no partner approval is needed.
- Run the MCP server. A small Node.js file wraps the API and exposes read-only tools for listings, reservations, calendar, and tasks.
- Ask in plain English. Point Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT at the server and ask things like "what checks out tomorrow?" or "which listings have a gap next week?"
The hosted API route
For a tool that has to keep running unattended, there is also a hosted path: the RapidEye API exposes Hostaway as a hosted connector, so the auth model and its limits are handled centrally and your code calls one consistent surface. The catalogue is machine-readable, so an AI agent can discover it mid-task and surface the next step itself.