pp-airbnb

name pp-airbnb description Skip the Airbnb platform fee. Find the host's direct booking site for any Airbnb listing. Trigger phrases: `find the direct booking site`, `skip the airbnb fee`, `vacation rental cheapest`, `book direct`, `use airbnb-pp`, `run airbnb-pp`. NOTE: VRBO support is currently disabled — pending Akamai workaround. author Matt Van Horn license Apache-2.0 argument-hint <command> [args] | install cli|mcp allowed-tools Read Bash metadata {"openclaw":{"requires":{"bins":"[Truncated]"},"install":["[Truncated]"]}} Airbnb — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the airbnb-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install airbnb --cli-only Verify: airbnb-pp-cli --version Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.5 or newer): go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/travel/airbnb/cmd/airbnb-pp-cli@latest If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH . Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When to Use This CLI Reach for this CLI when an agent or user names an Airbnb listing URL, asks about Airbnb fees or direct-booking savings, mentions 'book direct,' or wants to plan a trip across listings. The cheapest command is the headline; plan and compare extend it. The local store accumulates listings, hosts, and price history across sessions, so re-running queries gets faster and richer over time. When Not to Use This CLI Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Host-direct arbitrage cheapest — Given an Airbnb or VRBO listing URL, find the host's direct booking site and report the cheapest of three sources. When a user names an Airbnb/VRBO listing, this is the right tool to reach for. Returns a structured comparison of OTA fees vs direct booking with actionable URLs. airbnb-pp-cli cheapest 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493?check_in=2026-05-16&check_out=2026-05-19' --agent plan — Search Airbnb and VRBO in parallel for a city/dates/budget, then run cheapest on the top results, return a ranked-by-savings list. The agent-friendly trip planner. One call returns ranked results across both platforms with direct-booking URLs and savings amounts. airbnb-pp-cli plan 'Lake Tahoe' --checkin 2026-05-16 --checkout 2026-05-19 --guests 4 --budget 1500 --agent compare — Side-by-side: OTA total (with cleaning + service + tax fees) vs direct booking total, with dollar and percent savings. Use when an agent needs to justify a booking recommendation with concrete savings numbers. airbnb-pp-cli compare 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' --checkin 2026-05-16 --checkout 2026-05-19 --json find-twin — Reverse image search a listing's photos to find the same property on direct booking sites or alternate platforms. When host extraction fails (vague host name), reverse image search is the most reliable signal. airbnb-pp-cli find-twin 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' --json Cross-platform match — Given a listing on Airbnb (or VRBO), find the same property on the other platform via geocode + amenities + photo signal. Cross-platform price discrimination is real; the same condo can cost 15 percent less on VRBO. This finds it. airbnb-pp-cli match 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' --json Local state that compounds watch — Add saved listings to a watchlist with target prices; watch check re-scrapes each, records a dated price snapshot when a real price comes back, and exits 7 on a genuine drop. Subcommands: add , list , remove , check . Use when a user is shopping a specific listing and waiting for a price drop. Schedule watch check daily; act on exit code 7. A listing with no available price for the dates is reported under no_price and is never a hit (no false exit 7). Remove with watch remove <listing-url-or-id> . airbnb-pp-cli watch add 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' --max-price 350 --checkin 2026-05-16 --checkout 2026-05-19 airbnb-pp-cli watch remove 37124493 host portfolio — Given a host or property management company name, list every known listing under them across Airbnb and VRBO. Discover bulk patterns: which PMCs operate in this city, which have direct sites, where to focus arbitrage. airbnb-pp-cli host portfolio 'Vacasa' --json -- select listings.title,listings.location wishlist diff — Track price changes on Airbnb wishlists over time; report which saved listings dropped, by how much, and over what window. User saved a listing months ago and forgot. This surfaces price movement so they can act before booking. airbnb-pp-cli wishlist diff --since 2026-04-01 --json fingerprint — Stable hash from photos + amenities + host + city; used by match for dedupe; exposed for power-user export workflows. Build your own external joins on listings; stable across sessions. airbnb-pp-cli fingerprint 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' Discovery Signals This CLI was generated with browser-observed traffic context. Capture coverage: 66 API entries from 299 total network entries Protocols: rpc_envelope (80% confidence), rest_json (75% confidence) Auth signals: api_key — headers: X-Airbnb-API-Key, X-Goog-Api-Key Generation hints: has_rpc_envelope, weak_schema_confidence Candidate command ideas: create_GetViewportInfo — Derived from observed POST /$rpc/google.internal.maps.mapsjs.v1.MapsJsInternalService/GetViewportInfo traffic.; create_StaysPdpSections — Derived from observed POST /api/v3/StaysPdpSections/{hash} traffic.; create_get_data_layer_variables — Derived from observed POST /api/v2/get-data-layer-variables traffic.; create_js — Derived from observed POST /js/ traffic.; create_marketing_event_tracking — Derived from observed POST /api/v2/marketing_event_tracking traffic.; create_messages — Derived from observed POST /tracking/jitney/logging/messages traffic.; create_realtimeconversion — Derived from observed POST /track/realtimeconversion traffic.; get_GetConsentFlagsQuery — Derived from observed GET /api/v3/GetConsentFlagsQuery/{hash} traffic. Caveats: empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak.; empty_payload: API-looking request returned an empty or null payload; schema confidence is weak. Command Reference airbnb_listing — Airbnb listings (search and detail) via SSR HTML scrape (openbnb pattern, no auth required). airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_listing get — Get full Airbnb listing detail (amenities, house rules, location, highlights, description, policies, host) via SSR... airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_listing search — Search Airbnb listings by location, dates, and guest count via the public SSR HTML page (openbnb pattern). Walks... airbnb_wishlist — Airbnb wishlists (read user's saved listings; requires auth login --chrome). airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_wishlist items — Get items in a specific wishlist by listing IDs. airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_wishlist list — List the user's wishlists via Airbnb's GraphQL persisted query. host — Host identity extraction (the linchpin of host-direct arbitrage). airbnb-pp-cli host extract — Extract the host's brand or display name from a listing URL across both platforms. Uses propertyManagement.name... airbnb-pp-cli host portfolio — List every known listing under one host or PMC across Airbnb and VRBO from the local store. vrbo_listing — VRBO listings (search and detail) via /graphql with Akamai warmup pattern. airbnb-pp-cli vrbo_listing get — Get full VRBO property detail via the propertyDetail GraphQL operation (operation name discovered at runtime). Falls... airbnb-pp-cli vrbo_listing search — Search VRBO properties via the propertySearch GraphQL operation. Uses Akamai warmup (GET / first, wait 1.5s, then POST). Freshness Contract This printed CLI owns bounded freshness only for registered store-backed read command paths. In --data-source auto mode, those paths check sync_state and may run a bounded refresh before reading local data. --data-source local never refreshes. --data-source live reads the API and does not mutate the local store. Set AIRBNB_PP_NO_AUTO_REFRESH=1 to skip the freshness hook without changing source selection. Covered paths: airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_wishlist airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_wishlist items airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_wishlist list When JSON output uses the generated provenance envelope, freshness metadata appears at meta.freshness . Treat it as current-cache freshness for the covered command path, not a guarantee of complete historical backfill or API-specific enrichment. Finding the right command When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly: airbnb-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>" which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query. Recipes Find the cheapest way to book a saved Airbnb listing airbnb-pp-cli cheapest 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' --checkin 2026-05-16 --checkout 2026-05-19 --json -- select savings,direct.url,direct.total,airbnb.total Returns just the savings and price comparison fields, not the full host-extraction trace. Plan a 4-guest Tahoe trip across both platforms airbnb-pp-cli plan 'Lake Tahoe' --checkin 2026-05-16 --checkout 2026-05-19 --guests 4 --budget 1500 --agent Fans out across Airbnb + VRBO + direct discovery; ranks by total savings. Watch for price drops on saved listings airbnb-pp-cli watch add 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' --max-price 350 && airbnb-pp-cli watch check airbnb-pp-cli watch remove 'https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37124493' Add to watchlist, then check with cron — exits 7 only when a real scraped price is at or below the threshold. A listing with no available price for the dates is reported under no_price (never a hit, never exit 7). watch remove accepts the listing URL or the bare id from watch list . Keep price history current airbnb-pp-cli sync # re-scrapes watchlist + known listings, persists fresh snapshots airbnb-pp-cli sync --resources airbnb_wishlist # auth-gated wishlist sync (needs auth login --chrome) sync re-scrapes what the store already knows (watchlist entries + previously-scraped listings) and writes fresh price snapshots; on an empty store it reports empty_store and makes no network calls. The authenticated wishlist sync is opt-in via --resources airbnb_wishlist . Find a Vacasa property in Austin and book direct airbnb-pp-cli host portfolio 'Vacasa' --city Austin --agent -- select listings.title,listings.direct_url Bulk discovery of one PMC's portfolio with direct URLs already resolved. Compare deeply nested response airbnb-pp-cli airbnb get 37124493 --agent -- select listing.title,listing.coordinate.latitude,listing.coordinate.longitude,pricingQuote.structuredStayDisplayPrice.primaryLine.price,pricingQuote.structuredStayDisplayPrice.secondaryLine.price Use --select with dotted paths to narrow Airbnb's deeply nested SSR Apollo cache to just the high-gravity fields. Auth Setup Public search and listing detail need no auth. Authenticated features (Airbnb wishlists, trip history) use cookie import via auth login --chrome. The web-search backend is pluggable: Parallel.ai (paid, best), DuckDuckGo HTML (free default), Brave Search API (free tier), or Tavily (free tier). Run airbnb-pp-cli doctor to verify setup. Agent Mode Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes . Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs: airbnb-pp-cli airbnb_listing get --agent -- select id ,name,status Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests Response envelope Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope: { "meta" : { "source" : "live" | "local" , "synced_at" : "..." , "reason" : "..." } , "results" : <data> } Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal — piped/agent consumers get pure JSON on stdout. Agent Feedback When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it: airbnb-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive" airbnb-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt airbnb-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10 Entries are stored locally at ~/.airbnb-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl . They are never POSTed unless AIRBNB_PP_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or AIRBNB_PP_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true . Default behavior is local-only. Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds. Output Delivery Every command accepts --deliver <sink> . The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported: Sink Effect stdout Default; write to stdout only file:<path> Atomically write output to <path> (tmp + rename) webhook:<url> POST the output body to the URL ( application/json or application/x-ndjson when --compact ) Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr. Named Profiles A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern. airbnb-pp-cli profile save briefing --json airbnb-pp-cli --profile briefing airbnb_listing get airbnb-pp-cli profile list --json airbnb-pp-cli profile show briefing airbnb-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime. Exit Codes Code Meaning 0 Success 2 Usage error (wrong arguments) 3 Resource not found 4 Authentication required 5 API error (upstream issue) 7 Rate limited (wait and retry) 8 Bot challenge (datadome/Akamai). Wait, or refresh cookies via airbnb-pp-cli auth login --chrome 10 Config error Rate Limiting --rate-limit N (global flag) caps the request rate to N per second. Applies to BOTH the scrape path ( search , get , cheapest , plan , compare ) AND the GraphQL path ( BookingPrice for pricing, wishlist list , wishlist items ). Default (flag unset): 0.5 rps baseline. Non-regressive.