One key, every rental platform
Reach vacation rental platform data without becoming a certified partner of each one. The RapidEye API is a hosted gateway for AI agents and custom-built operator tools: connect an account once, and we handle whatever approval, OAuth dance, or admin-issued credential that platform demands. Free developer key, issued instantly.
# the base URL, once API=https://api.rapideyeinspections.com # 1. free key, instant curl -X POST $API/v1/signup \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -d '{"email": "you@company.com"}' # 2. connect a platform account once curl -X POST $API/v1/connections/hostaway \ -H "Authorization: Bearer re_..." \ -d '{"accountId": "12345", "clientSecret": "..."}' # 3. call it. auth is handled at the edge. curl $API/v1/hostaway/listings \ -H "Authorization: Bearer re_..."
- Built for agents, not just peopleEvery route is documented in machine-readable form at the API root, plus an llms.txt written as an agent quickstart. If you are an agent: only step 1 needs your human.
- One auth model instead of a dozenOAuth client credentials, basic auth, header keys: each platform demands something different. The gateway absorbs that. Your code sends one bearer token.
- Connect once, inherit foreverThe connection lives on the key, not in a config file. Next month's agent, in a new session with no memory, still has working access.
Looking for inspection findings rather than platform data? This page covers the gateway: one key that reaches the APIs of the platforms you already run. If you want to send turnover photos or video and get damage findings back, that is RapidEye's own inspection engine: see the RapidEye API.
Platforms
Live means you connect your own platform credentials and call it immediately. Request access means that platform controls its data at the source (partner approval, distribution permissions, admin-issued credentials), so we provision it on your key directly with you rather than by self-signup. Same key either way.
Hostaway
LiveOAuth client credentials minted and refreshed for you. Listings, reservations, tasks, calendar.
OwnerRez
LiveBookings, properties, guests and owners. Note the two-accounts-per-IP token limit.
PriceLabs
LivePricing and listing data, joinable against whatever PMS you are on.
Guesty
Request accessFive access tokens per client ID per 24 hours: token caching is not optional.
Hospitable
Request accessFirst official MCP in the industry, and write-capable. We say use theirs.
Escapia
Request accessPartner-gated GraphQL gateway plus per-property-manager permission.
Track
Request access90-plus resource collections. Mirrors the PMS operational core, not a listings feed.
Streamline
Request accessPropertyCare work orders: the field-ops layer most PMS APIs stop short of.
Turno
Request accessDocumented External API v2, access granted rather than self-serve.
TIDY
Request accessLive first-party MCP, write-capable. Cleaning state to join against a PMS.
Cloudbeds
Request accessSelf-serve keys with scopes chosen at creation. Rare in hospitality.
Mews
Request accessFive-state resource model plus a public demo environment to build against.
Lodgify
Request accessPublic API key carries write scope you cannot turn off. MCP is waitlisted.
Hostfully
Request accessA "lead" is the booking, not a sales prospect. Orders hold the money.
Tokeet
Request accessSelf-serve key, documented CAPI, and zero agent tooling anywhere.
iGMS
Request accessDocumented API, no MCP, and no Zapier app despite what blogs claim.
CiiRUS
Request accessIn-platform AI, but nothing for outside agents. CiiRUS-API is the route.
RentalReady
Request accessShipped an official MCP in June 2026, among the first to do so.
Your platform
AskNot listed? Tell us which one your build needs and we will look at it.
Real tools span platforms
A revenue dashboard needs bookings and pricing. An owner report needs reservations and cleaning status. No single platform's API can answer a question that crosses two systems; one key and one schema can.
Errors an agent can act on
A raw 403 tells an agent nothing. Our errors name the cause and the fix, including the exact next call, so an agent can self-correct instead of guessing or giving up.
State that outlives a session
Agents start every session with no memory. The connection lives on the key, so the next agent, in a new chat, with a different model, still has working access on day one.
When you should not use this
If your tool only ever touches one platform, and that platform has a good self-serve API you already hold credentials for, call it directly. Hostaway, PriceLabs, and OwnerRez all publish real documentation, and adding a hop through us buys you nothing on a single-platform task. We would rather say that plainly than win a request you did not need us for.
Where the gateway genuinely earns its place: platforms that gate access behind partner approval, tasks that span more than one system, and any agent-built tool that has to keep working long after the session that wrote it. This is the platform-data half of what we publish. The inspection engine itself, where you send photos or video and get back damage findings, is a separate product with its own docs at the RapidEye inspection API.
Questions
How do you connect a vacation rental platform to an AI agent?
A hosted gateway that gives AI agents and custom-built operator tools structured access to vacation rental platform APIs through one free developer key. You connect a platform account once, and the gateway handles that platform's authentication model, whether that is OAuth client credentials, basic auth, or a header key.
Is it free?
The developer key is free and issued instantly from an email address. Platforms marked live work immediately once you connect your own platform credentials. Platforms marked request access are provisioned on your key in a short call with the RapidEye founders, because those platforms control access at the source.
Does RapidEye store my platform credentials?
Yes, encrypted, because that is what lets one key reach many platforms and what lets every future agent session inherit a connection instead of reconfiguring it. Credentials are sealed with AES-GCM before storage and are only decrypted in memory to sign an outbound request.
Why would an AI agent use this instead of a platform's own API?
For a task touching one platform with a good self-serve API, it should not; the direct path is simpler and we say so on every page. The gateway earns its place when authentication is the hard part, when a task spans multiple platforms and you want one schema, when errors need to be readable enough for an agent to self-correct, or when the platform has no self-serve access at all.
What does RapidEye actually do?
RapidEye is AI inspection intelligence for property condition: we analyze the turnover photos and video walkthroughs operators already collect and flag damage, missing items, and staging issues. The gateway exists because the operators building their own tools are the same people who care about that. See the inspection API or the main site.
Start with the key
Free, instant, and it works on every live platform the moment you connect an account. Partner-controlled platforms are provisioned on that same key.