Competitor rate & availability benchmark → report
Benchmark your listing’s rate and availability against a defined comp-set and get a weekly position report.
What it does
The job it gets done
For a defined comp-set of listings, pull each one’s price and day-by-day availability, then benchmark your own listing against the set — where your rate ranks, the cheapest and median rates, and an occupancy signal from how many dates each comp has open. It fans the comp-set out, calls GET /v1/price and GET /v1/availability per listing, and correlates both into one report. A revenue-management staple, on a schedule.
How it works
Step by step
- 1
Define the comp-set and your listing
List the platform, the comma-separated listing ids for the whole comp-set (including your own), which id is yours, and the stay dates.
- 2
Price every listing in the set
The workflow fans the comp-set out and calls GET /v1/price for each listing and the dates, returning a real total per competitor.
- 3
Check each listing’s availability
It also calls GET /v1/availability per listing over the window, so occupancy density (how many dates each comp has open) feeds the benchmark.
- 4
Build and deliver the benchmark
A Code node correlates price and availability by listing, ranks the rates, flags where you sit versus the cheapest and median, and posts the report to Slack — swap for email or a Google Sheet for a weekly digest.
What you'll need
Two ways to run it
Using an AI agent
Just your ScoutingAPI key. Your agent is the brain — it calls the endpoint and reports the result itself, so there's no separate AI key to buy. Install the SKILL.md below.
Using n8n
A running n8n instance, the workflow JSON below, a ScoutingAPI Header Auth credential, and a delivery credential (e.g. Slack) — or swap the last node. The transform is plain JavaScript, so no LLM key is required.
Try it live
Run the core call now — sandbox, 0 credits
Exercise the endpoint this workflow is built on against the deterministic sandbox — a real 200, zero credits, no sign-up.
/v1/priceRuns against the deterministic Booking sandbox fixture — a real 200, zero credits.
Run the call to see a live, deterministic sandbox response.
curl -sS "https://api.scoutingapi.com/v1/price" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTINGAPI_KEY"Code samples
The same call, every way that matters
# Price one comp (repeat per listing in the set)…
curl -sS "https://api.scoutingapi.com/v1/price?platform=booking&listingId=abramovic2&checkIn=2026-07-13&checkOut=2026-07-20¤cy=EUR" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTINGAPI_KEY"
# …and its availability over the same window
curl -sS "https://api.scoutingapi.com/v1/availability?platform=booking&listingId=abramovic2&startDate=2026-07-13&endDate=2026-07-20&onlyAvailable=true" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTINGAPI_KEY"Get it for your platform
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Typical cost
≈ 3 credits per run.
price· 3 credits per callavailability· from 5 credits per calllisting· 3 credits per call
Failed & empty calls are always free; sandbox calls cost 0. Live costs are on the pricing page.
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