9flats

9flats is a European vacation-rental marketplace, founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2010, that lists privately-owned apartments, houses and rooms for short-term stays and takes bookings directly from travellers. It operates 9flats.com in multiple languages and, in 2016, combined with its Berlin-based competitor Wimdu. 9flats published a public read API (v1, later v3) covering place search, place detail, photos, prices, reviews, availability calendars, user profiles, favourites and bookings, authenticated with OAuth 1.0a and shipped with a first-party Ruby SDK. That developer surface has decayed: the SDK was last released in 2011 and is marked unsupported by its own maintainers, and the API reference site the SDK links to has been deleted.

9flats publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Travel, Hospitality, Vacation Rentals, and Short-Term Rental.

9flats’ developer surface includes authentication and 13 more developer resources.

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11.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
1 APIs
CompanyTravelHospitalityVacation RentalsShort-Term RentalAccommodationMarketplaceBookingEurope

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 11.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11
Contract Governance 0.5 / 10
Discoverability 5.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15
Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

9flats API

The 9flats read API over the marketplace's listing data: search places, fetch a place with its photos, prices, reviews and monthly availability calendar, and fetch a user with t...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

9Flats Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

9Flats Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

9Flats Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

9Flats Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 SourceCode
SourceCode
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: 9flats
name: 9flats
description: '9flats is a European vacation-rental marketplace, founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2010, that lists privately-owned
  apartments, houses and rooms for short-term stays and takes bookings directly from travellers. It operates 9flats.com in
  multiple languages and, in 2016, combined with its Berlin-based competitor Wimdu. 9flats published a public read API (v1,
  later v3) covering place search, place detail, photos, prices, reviews, availability calendars, user profiles, favourites
  and bookings, authenticated with OAuth 1.0a and shipped with a first-party Ruby SDK. That developer surface has decayed:
  the SDK was last released in 2011 and is marked unsupported by its own maintainers, and the API reference site the SDK links
  to has been deleted.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/9flats/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: 'enrichment pass 2026-09-05: first-party Ruby SDK, GitHub org and OAuth 1.0a auth model found and captured;
  no machine-readable contract published and the live host is behind a Cloudflare managed challenge'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - 9flats/nineflats-api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
tags:
- Company
- Travel
- Hospitality
- Vacation Rentals
- Short-Term Rental
- Accommodation
- Marketplace
- Booking
- Europe
apis:
- aid: 9flats:9flats-api
  name: 9flats API
  description: 'The 9flats read API over the marketplace''s listing data: search places, fetch a place with its photos, prices,
    reviews and monthly availability calendar, and fetch a user with their favourites and (for the authenticated user) their
    bookings. Authenticated with OAuth 1.0a plus a client_id query parameter; responses are JSON envelopes keyed by resource
    name with links[] rel/href navigation and page-number pagination. Nine operations, all GET — no write surface is published.
    Reconstructed from 9flats'' own client library, because the reference site the library points at has been withdrawn.'
  humanURL: https://github.com/9flats/nineflats-api
  baseURL: https://www.9flats.com/api/v1
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Travel
  - Vacation Rentals
  - Search
  - Listings
  - Availability
  - Reviews
  - Booking
  tags_raw:
  - Travel
  - Vacation Rentals
  - Search
  - Listings
  - Availability
  - Reviews
  - Bookings
  properties:
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/9flats/nineflats-api
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/9flats-packages.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/9flats-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/9flats-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/9flats-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/9flats-rate-limits.yml
  x-status: Unverified as reachable. The documented base host answers HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare managed challenge to every
    non-browser client, so no operation could be called; the surface is described from the provider's own SDK source, not
    from a live response.
  x-contract: none published — no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, WSDL, .proto or Postman collection was found
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/9flats-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.9flats.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/9flats
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/9flats/nineflats-api
- type: Packages
  url: packages/9flats-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/9flats-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/9flats-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/9flats-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/9flats-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/9flats-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/9flats-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/9flats-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/9flats-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/9flats-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: local-v3

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