HouseTrip

HouseTrip was a London-based online vacation-rental marketplace founded in 2009 by Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun Chen, backed by Accel and Balderton Capital, that grew to roughly 300,000 European holiday properties before being acquired by TripAdvisor in April 2016. The standalone HouseTrip brand and its developer surface (formerly dev.housetrip.com) have since been retired; the housetrip.com domain now serves TripAdvisor's HolidayLettings marketplace. This profile is retained as a historical consumer-sector company record in the API Evangelist network; no live first-party API, SDK, or developer portal is currently published under the HouseTrip brand.

HouseTrip is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Travel, Vacation Rentals, and Hospitality.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyConsumerTravelVacation RentalsHospitalityMarketplaceDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: housetrip
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/housetrip.png
name: HouseTrip
description: HouseTrip was a London-based online vacation-rental marketplace founded in 2009 by Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun
  Chen, backed by Accel and Balderton Capital, that grew to roughly 300,000 European holiday properties before being acquired
  by TripAdvisor in April 2016. The standalone HouseTrip brand and its developer surface (formerly dev.housetrip.com) have
  since been retired; the housetrip.com domain now serves TripAdvisor's HolidayLettings marketplace. This profile is retained
  as a historical consumer-sector company record in the API Evangelist network; no live first-party API, SDK, or developer
  portal is currently published under the HouseTrip brand.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/housetrip/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- balderton-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Travel
- Vacation Rentals
- Hospitality
- Marketplace
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/housetrip-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.housetrip.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

HouseTrip

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Housetrip Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)