| FMRS | 57 / 100 · C | 78 / 100 · B | 76 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 9 / 20 | 13 / 20 | 13 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 11 / 20 | 12 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 10 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 14 / 20 | 18 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 13 / 20 | 17 / 20 | 17 / 20 |
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| Best for | - Users who want AI-assisted accommodation search and listing research.
- Travel planners needing international location search, price filters, and property details.
- Developers and researchers able to run a Node.js MCP client.
| - Scenarios where an AI assistant needs to actually drive a browser to complete a task
- Web automation testing and end-to-end verification
| - Frontend developers who want AI-assisted web debugging and performance analysis
- Scenarios that need browser automation and performance diagnostics in the same tool
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| Not for | - Users seeking an official Airbnb or Airbnb-affiliated service.
- Users needing booking, payment, or reservation-management features; the source documents search and information retrieval only.
- Users who do not want requests sent to Airbnb or third-party geocoding services unless they provide a placeId or disable geocoding.
| - Simple static-text scraping (a lightweight scraper is a better fit)
- Environments sensitive to browser resource usage that can't run a full browser engine
| - Cases that only need to scrape page text without performance analysis or complex interaction (a lighter scraping tool is a better fit)
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| Required permissions | - Requires a local Node.js process running over stdio.
- Requires network requests to airbnb.com to search and read publicly available listing information.
- Without a placeId or DISABLE_GEOCODING=true, it sends geocoding requests to Photon and, when needed, Nominatim.
- The source does not specify account authentication, API keys, or storage of sensitive data.
| - Requires installing and running a browser engine (Chromium/Firefox/WebKit) locally or on a server
- browser_navigate can visit any URL; browser_evaluate can run arbitrary JavaScript in the page context
| - Requires a local Chrome browser instance to run
- navigate_page can visit any URL; type_text/fill_form and similar tools can enter arbitrary content into the page
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| Risks and side effects | - The server depends on Airbnb page structure, so page changes may cause degraded or incorrect results.
- Requests are subject to robots.txt, rate limits, and network availability; ignoring robots.txt may create compliance concerns.
- Searches without a placeId send the user-provided location string to third-party geocoding services.
- The source states that the project is not affiliated with Airbnb and advises respecting Airbnb's terms and relevant usage policies.
| - browser_evaluate executing arbitrary scripts carries risk if a malicious page is visited — restrict to trusted sites or an isolated environment
- Long-running browser instances consume significant memory and CPU
| - Browser automation tools can access and manipulate the content of open pages — use only in a trusted development/test environment
- performance_start_trace and similar tracing tools continuously record browser activity — avoid leaving them running on pages containing sensitive information
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| Supported clients | Claude Desktop, Cursor | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains, Zed, Cline, Amp, Kiro, LM Studio, Antigravity, Goose | Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains, Cline, Amp, Kiro, Antigravity |
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| Tools | 2 | 10 | 22 |
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