EBay API Puns

I have a regular ebay user account where my wife and I sell various items. I'm set up for a developer account and have been able to login and get User Access Tokens, using my regular ebay user account. However, when I try to get all my items that are listed the response returns {"total": 0, "size": 0} .

Do I need to have an actual store to get my inventory?

If not, anyone have any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? The HTTP status code from my API call to inventory is 200 so that is all good. The scope is set to sell.inventory.readonly and is the only scope I have enabled.

I made a API for all of those stores so I’m looking to sell it if you interested DM me

Hi everyone,

I've been web scraping for awhile and have been switching all of my apps over to proper API's to comply with eBay policy and enhance speed of the application. I recently signed up for the eBay production API and am having a hard time sifting through the eBay documentation or finding support articles online.

I found a thread in the developers forum where someone put together a PHP script that will respond to the marketplace deletion notifications, but I'm having some trouble finding my Production Cert ID (client secret) associated with my Client ID to start using it.

There's a message that I need to "Comply with marketplace deletion/account closure notification process or apply for an exemption". Has anyone experienced this issue and can point me in the right direction?

As a new developer this is a little overwhelming. Thanks all for your help.

Edit: Solution found! For anybody else struggling with this, this is the solution I found that works to get started in PHP:

Prerequisites:

Make sure to send "200 OK" response code.

Use Certbot to set up signed SSL for https

Use this code below to sign up initially

Finally, replace the code with the script from swappart on the eBay forums:

<?php

http_response_code(200);

if(isset($_GET['challenge_code']))

{

$verificationToken = 'ENTER TOKEN HERE';

$endpointURL = 'ENTER ENDPOINT URL HERE';

header('Content-Type: application/json'); $d=$_GET['challenge_code'].$verificationToken.$endpointURL; $hd=array("challengeResponse"=>hash("sha256", $d));

echo(json_encode($hd));

} elseif(isset($_POST['challenge_code']))

?>

I use a 3rd party tool to list on ebay.

I scan barcodes on media and the tool looks up the item in the ebay catalog.

Unfortunately, looks like ebay changed the API to their catalog a couple of weeks ago and my tool no longer works and the owners say they aren't interested in fixing it.

Can anyone recommend a desktop tool that allows scanning UPCs to look up in the ebay database and check values?

I'm essentially looking to check that an item is in the catalog and check relative value (number of listings and prices) and then will use file exchange to list the items that make sense.

I know some of this functionality is available from the ebay mobile app but I'm looking for something more efficient than that.

if not an api, a way to easily access product information. i want to start a project that looks at different stores and fetches information like prices and product description.

i thought that big name companies would have an api that you can interact with and they do.... but im a little confused because the process to get an authentication key seems backwards.

most of them asked for some form of registration followed by some type of proof that you have a viable product. some want your website's URL and others asked for information about the revenue that your website made in the last month.....

this makes no sense to me. how can i show a viable product if i can't even interact with their api to create such product?? im confused. Is there any big seller that allows noobs like me to interact with their api?

if not, is web scraping the only option here? is there other solutions?

I started to use it 2 weeks ago and found the following issues which basically makes it useless. If you have a solution / workaround please let me know, thank you!

• You cannot update a listing after it has been published in eBay
• I have a few products that is not publishing, nothing seem to be wrong with the listing cause exact copies with just a different color published successfully - tech team haven’t resolved the issue in 2 weeks.
• None of my orders synch into the orders tab its not even on the other orders tab - tech haven’t resolved it in 1 week now
• Buyers unable to purchase more than 1 quantity even though i published the listing with multiple quantities - just escalated this today
• to get exempted from being charged sales tax I understand it is a mor complex process than just a simple form

I’ve always been impressed with printful support, but this time I’m very disappointed. They seem to be proactive with simple issues like returns etc but with complex issues which are even more impactful - I’m not getting any update whatsoever. Like all my tickets just went down the drain.

I am trying to apply for increased API call limits for my eBay module but I can't seem to find any documentation regarding what API version is being used on Odoo.sh / Enterprise.

If anyone has filed the application already, is there anything I need to look out for? I want to get this application passed as quickly as possible.

Any help would be great! Thanks!

So Iv'e managed to work through figuring out how to use the ebay api to scrape, but my main goal, is to make a item postingon there. I've managed to folow along the only toturial I could find on the web in regard to MAKING A LISTING (https://linuxconfig.org/introduction-to-ebay-api-with-python-the-trading-api-part-3), which brings me to this (its a function becuase i intend to use this wiht otyher things once I figure out this part):

def EbayPostGameListing(condition = "used", system = "nes", game = "Super 3D Noah's Ark", price = "10000"):
    print('starting')
    request = {
        "Item": {
            "Title": "Professional Mechanical Keyboard",
            "Country": "US",
            "Location": "US",
            "Site": "US",
            "ConditionID": "1000",
            "PaymentMethods": "PayPal",
            "PayPalEmailAddress": "[REDACTED]",
            "PrimaryCategory": {"CategoryID": "33963"},
            "Description": "A really nice mechanical keyboard!",
            "ListingDuration": "Days_10",
            "StartPrice": "150",
            "Currency": "USD",
            "ReturnPolicy": {
                "ReturnsAcceptedOption": "ReturnsAccepted",
                "RefundOption": "MoneyBack",
                "ReturnsWithinOption": "Days_30",
                "returnDescription": "If you are not satisfied, return the keyboard.",
                "ShippingCostPaidByOption": "Buyer"
            },
            "ShippingDetails": {
                "ShippingServiceOptions": {
                    "FreeShipping": "True",
                    "ShippingService": "USPSMedia"
                }
            },
            "DispatchTimeMax": "3",
            "ItemSpecifics": {
                    "NameValueList": [
                        {"Name": "Brand",
                         "Value": "The ocean"},
                        {"Name": "MPN",
                         "Value": ""},
                        {"Name": "Type",
                         "Value": "Top-Loading"}
                    ]
                  }
        }
    }
    api = EbayTrading(config_file=ebayconfig, debug=True, domain="api.ebay.com", appid = appid)
    api.execute("AddItem", request)
    print('ending')

EbayPostGa

Will pay $100 to work with a Developer to create an application using Ebay’s API.

Background, I’m a part time Ebay seller and thought of something that could help me in my day to day operations.

I have background in SQL and basic HTML, so I am not illiterate when it comes to developers, but need someone with experience.

I don’t think this would be a hard task to create, and would love to work with someone in the future for more pay!

Feel free to message me!

Does anyone know if this is possible? I started getting into reselling recently and I’d like to be able to keep track of products selling on eBay to see if people are still buying the product and how much it is selling for. This would let me keep track of when a product is gaining or losing traction. I was looking to see if there was an api I could use with Google data studio and there is no integration. Keep in mind I’m not talking about my own sales here. You can search for a product on eBay and check sold listings and see when it sold and for how much — this is the data I’m trying to capture.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Message me on discord PJ#3133 $200-$500

Imagus changed the sieve for eBay.

The new sieve does not use the API and it does not work.

Does anyone have the old sieve with the API? I'd like to go back to the old sieve so that I can use my API key, which was the only thing that's ever worked on eBay (for me, at least).

Thank you in advance!

So yeah, as the title. The ebay api is something that allows a program to talk to ebay to send listings, find listings, edit listings, get category list etc. It's something that essentially helps ebay make more money as you can use the site faster.

Why though is there so much outdated documentation (you read the entire page to then realise that it's horribly outdated and not to be used anymore), and why, after spending so long just reading, am I discovering new pages that have to be read. Something about a rabbit-hole.

Ebay - you really need to help developers more, because they are the ones who can help your platform flourish, not 'redesigns' of your site, and not outsourcing all developer support to india to cut costs.

Hi r/datasets --

I searched for duplicates of this question but didn't see any. My apologies in advance if this is not the right place to post.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a dataset or an API for eBay sales data. I'm doing some research on tobacco and e-cig sales, and some commerce-related data would greatly help. In particular, I want to find sales volume for several different tobacco and e-cig products over time.

I searched the eBay developer APIs, but it looks like these are all meant to enhance the experience of account holders who are buying and selling. In other words, I didn't see a way to call large amounts of data by product, user, etc.

https://developer.ebay.com/docs#tax

Thanks for reading my question.