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HomeAway *

HomeAway was an Austin, Texas vacation-rental marketplace that connected travelers with owners and property managers of holiday homes, cabins, condos, and beach houses worldwide. It published a first-party HomeAway API (OAuth 2.0) for listing management, availability and booking synchronization, pricing, and guest communication, along with a Ruby SDK and the hacurl command-line tool from its GitHub organization. HomeAway was acquired by Expedia Group in 2015 and the brand was retired into Vrbo: homeaway.com now redirects to Vrbo and the developer platform is no longer maintained. This profile captures the genuine historical first-party API surface (SDK, CLI, OAuth auth model) that remains publicly available.

agent aware

Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles HomeAway * the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — HomeAway * scores 13.6/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 16/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 13.6/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile HomeAway *

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for HomeAway *. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Homeaway Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Homeaway Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Homeaway Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for HomeAway * — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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