Vagaro CLI

Every Vagaro discovery feature, plus the marketplace-wide availability search, price comparison, and local database no Vagaro tool has.

Vagaro's website is a per-business click-through funnel with no way to ask a question across the whole marketplace. This CLI syncs businesses, services, providers, reviews, and availability into a local SQLite store, so you can find any open slot matching your constraints (find), compare businesses head to head (compare), check whether a price is fair (price-check), and rebook your usual with the same provider (me rebook) — all with agent-native --json output.

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Created by @tmchow (Trevin Chow).

Authentication

Public discovery (search, business detail, services, reviews, classes) needs no auth. For your own appointment history and profile, run 'vagaro-pp-cli auth login --chrome' to import your logged-in Vagaro session from Chrome (a JWT plus session cookies). Booking commands are handoff-only: booking-link / book verify a selected slot and can print the closest Vagaro booking URL plus browser steps, but they do not submit the appointment.

Quick Start

# Health check — confirms the CLI is wired up before any network calls.
vagaro-pp-cli doctor --dry-run

# Look up a business by its vagaro.com/<slug> handle.
vagaro-pp-cli business get centralbarber

# See that business's service menu with prices as JSON.
vagaro-pp-cli business services centralbarber --json

# Browse upcoming livestream classes.
vagaro-pp-cli classes --page-size 10 --json

Unique Features

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Local state that compounds

• find — Find nearby businesses with a service open soonest, filtered by price, rating, and a date/time window.

  Reach for this when a user wants any open slot matching constraints across many businesses, not a specific known place.

  vagaro-pp-cli find massage --max-price 120 --min-rating 4.5 --from thu --to sat --agent
  

• compare — Compare named businesses side by side: rating, review count, price range, matching-service price, and next-available.

  Use when the user already has 2-3 businesses in mind and wants a decision table.

  vagaro-pp-cli compare centralbarber rudysbarbershop --agent
  

• price-check — Show the price spread (min/median/max) for a service across a metro and flag who's below median.

  Use to judge whether a quoted price is fair or to find below-median providers.

  vagaro-pp-cli price-check haircut --city seattle --agent
  

• market — One-shot landscape of a metro: business count, rating distribution, and price ranges by category.

  Use when someone is new to an area and wants the lay of the land before picking a regular spot.

  vagaro-pp-cli market seattle --agent
  

• menu-diff — Diff a business's service menu across synced snapshots to catch price changes and added/removed services.

  Use to detect silent price hikes or menu changes at a business you follow.

  vagaro-pp-cli menu-diff centralbarber --agent
  

Booking that remembers you

• me rebook — Re-run your usual: reads your past appointment (business + service + provider) and lists that provider's open slots in a date window so you can pick a future time.

  Use when the business/service/provider are already known from history, such as another haircut with the same barber. The variable is the future slot, not provider discovery.

  vagaro-pp-cli me rebook --last --from thu --to sat --agent
  

• watch — Check one business/provider's next-available against a stored baseline and report if a slot opened up sooner.

  Use when waiting on a booked-out provider to open a sooner slot.

  vagaro-pp-cli watch centralbarber --service haircut --before 2026-07-05 --agent
  

• business availability — Query one known business for available slots, scoped to a service, provider, and date range.

  Use when the user already knows the business and needs a precise provider/service/window answer.

  vagaro-pp-cli business availability sample-shop --service haircut --provider alex --from 2026-07-20 --to 2026-07-31 --agent
  

Recipes

Find an open massage this weekend under budget

vagaro-pp-cli find massage --max-price 120 --min-rating 4.5 --from sat --to sun --agent

Fans out across nearby businesses and ranks those with an open slot in the window under your price and rating floor.

Compare two barbers before committing

vagaro-pp-cli compare centralbarber rudysbarbershop --agent --select name,rating,priceRange,nextAvailable

Side-by-side decision table narrowed to the fields an agent needs, avoiding the verbose full payload.

Rebook your usual haircut with the same provider

vagaro-pp-cli me rebook --last --from thu --to sat --agent

Reads your most recent past appointment, keeps the same business/service/provider, and lists that provider's open times inside the requested window. For a recurring haircut, this is the default path: use history to keep "Central Barber + Ronnel + haircut" fixed, then choose the future slot.

If the most recent appointment is not the one you want to repeat, first list your appointment history and pass the desired appointment id:

vagaro-pp-cli me --past --agent --select appointment_id,business_name,service_name,provider_name,date
vagaro-pp-cli me rebook <appointment-id> --from 2026-07-20 --to 2026-07-31 --agent

Turn a selected rebook slot into a booking handoff

After me rebook returns slots, choose one YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM value and verify it with booking-link / book before opening Vagaro:

vagaro-pp-cli booking-link centralbarber --service 34098477 --provider 43931725 --at 2026-07-24T10:00 --agent
vagaro-pp-cli booking-link centralbarber --service 34098477 --provider 43931725 --at 2026-07-24T10:00 --confirm --agent

booking-link verifies availability and prints what would be booked. book --confirm prints the tightest Vagaro URL plus the exact browser steps for the verified service/provider/time. Neither command submits the appointment or performs checkout; the final confirmation still happens on Vagaro's site.

When to use favorites instead of rebook

Use favorites when the question is "which businesses did I save?" or when there is no relevant past appointment. For a routine repeat appointment, such as another haircut with the same barber at the same shop, skip favorites and use me rebook: appointment history already carries the business, service, and provider, so the only real choice is the future slot.

Check a known business for one provider's openings

vagaro-pp-cli business availability sample-shop --service haircut --provider alex --from 2026-07-20 --weeks 2 --agent

Resolves the service and provider by exact ID, exact name, or a unique name substring, then queries the requested weekly availability window. If a requested service or provider cannot be resolved uniquely, the command fails instead of falling back to the first service or any provider. Omit all flags to preserve the legacy behavior: first listed service, any provider, current week.

Check if a haircut price is fair in your city

vagaro-pp-cli price-check haircut --city seattle --agent

Shows the metro price distribution and flags below-median providers.

Usage

Run vagaro-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.

Paths & environment variables

This CLI separates local files into four path kinds:

Kind	Contents
config	User-editable settings such as config.toml and saved profiles
data	Durable local data: credentials.toml, data.db, cookies, browser-session proof files, and other auth sidecars
state	Runtime state such as persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log
cache	Regenerable HTTP/cache files

Each kind resolves independently. The ladder is:

1. Per-kind env var: VAGARO_CONFIG_DIR, VAGARO_DATA_DIR, VAGARO_STATE_DIR, or VAGARO_CACHE_DIR
2. --home <dir> for this invocation
3. VAGARO_HOME for a flat relocated root
4. XDG env vars: XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME
5. Platform defaults matching existing installs

For containers and agent sandboxes, prefer a single relocated root:

export VAGARO_HOME=/srv/vagaro
vagaro-pp-cli doctor

Under VAGARO_HOME=/srv/vagaro, the four dirs resolve to /srv/vagaro/config, /srv/vagaro/data, /srv/vagaro/state, and /srv/vagaro/cache.

MCP servers do not receive CLI flags from the host. Put relocation in the host env block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vagaro": {
      "command": "vagaro-pp-mcp",
      "env": {
        "VAGARO_HOME": "/srv/vagaro"
      }
    }
  }
}

Precedence matters in fleets: an ambient per-kind variable such as VAGARO_DATA_DIR overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use VAGARO_HOME or the per-kind variables for durable fleet relocation; treat --home as the weaker per-invocation lever.

Relocation is one-way. Unsetting VAGARO_HOME does not move files back to platform defaults, and doctor cannot find credentials left under a former root. Move the files manually before unsetting relocation variables.

Existing installs keep working because the platform-default rung matches the legacy layout. On the first auth write, stored secrets leave config.toml and are consolidated into credentials.toml under the data directory. Run vagaro-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to check path and credential-location warnings in automation.

Commands

business

Look up a Vagaro business (salon/spa/barber/fitness) by its slug

• vagaro-pp-cli business availability - Get a business's next-available booking summary; supports --service <name-or-id>, --provider <name-or-id>, --from <date>, --to <date>, and --weeks <n>
• vagaro-pp-cli business get - Get a business profile (name, rating, address, categories)
• vagaro-pp-cli business services - List a business's services with prices and durations

classes

Browse upcoming livestream classes

• vagaro-pp-cli classes - List upcoming livestream classes

listings

Browse businesses by service and location (live JSON-LD listings)

• vagaro-pp-cli listings <service> <location> - List businesses for a service in a city (city--state slug)

me

Your own Vagaro account (requires auth login --chrome)

• vagaro-pp-cli me - List your appointments (upcoming or past)

Output Formats

# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
vagaro-pp-cli business get mock-value

# JSON for scripting and agents
vagaro-pp-cli business get mock-value --json

# Filter to specific fields
vagaro-pp-cli business get mock-value --json --select id,name,status

# Dry run — show the request without sending
vagaro-pp-cli business get mock-value --dry-run

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
vagaro-pp-cli business get mock-value --agent

Agent Usage

This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:

• Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
• Pipeable - --json output to stdout, errors to stderr
• Filterable - --select id,name returns only fields you need
• Previewable - --dry-run shows the request without sending
• Explicit retries - add --idempotent to create retries when a no-op success is acceptable
• Confirmable - --yes for explicit confirmation of destructive actions
• Piped input - write commands can accept structured input when their help lists --stdin
• Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
• Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless --human-friendly is set

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.

Health Check

vagaro-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Run vagaro-pp-cli doctor to see the resolved config, data, state, and cache directories. The platform-default config path is ~/.config/vagaro/config.toml; --home, VAGARO_HOME, and per-kind env vars can relocate it.

Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.

Troubleshooting

Authentication errors (exit code 4)

• Run vagaro-pp-cli doctor to check credentials Not found errors (exit code 3)
• Check the resource ID is correct
• Run the list command to see available items

API-specific

• Search always returns businesses from the wrong city — Vagaro geo-scopes by your IP; pass an explicit location slug like 'search listings barber seattle--washington' or use 'find --city '.
• me appointments / book returns unauthorized — Run 'vagaro-pp-cli auth login --chrome' to import your Vagaro session; the token expires after ~30 days, so re-run it if it lapses.
• book says the business requires prepayment — That business takes payment up front; complete it at the printed book-now URL (payment is out of scope for the CLI).

Known Gaps

• booking-link --confirm does not place appointments programmatically (Vagaro has no booking-submit API — the checkout is a JavaScript widget). Instead it verifies the slot is open and returns a one-click-away handoff: the tightest booking URL (/{slug}/services) plus numbered steps naming the exact service, provider, and time to select, so finishing in the browser takes as few clicks as possible. The code has a placeBooking() seam for wiring a real submit if the endpoint is ever captured.
• favorites may be unavailable. Vagaro serves saved businesses through a signed endpoint this CLI intentionally avoids; the command attempts an authenticated read and reports honestly if no open endpoint is reachable.
• me commands need a session. Run vagaro-pp-cli auth login --chrome to import your Vagaro login; me appointments and me rebook require it.
• Location is IP-based. Search scopes to your machine's metro; the --city argument is advisory (Vagaro geolocates by IP).