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eBay Web Services Overview

Learn about eBay Web Services.

The eBay platform offers an unprecedented opportunity to build a new eBay business or expand your current business, reach new customers, and create a potential new stream of revenue. Leverage the resources of the eBay Developers Program to tap into eBay's marketplace of over 200 million users with tools and services that meet the diverse needs of buyers and sellers on eBay.

Which API should I use

API by feature: Learn which API to use with your application

eBay Web Services

Search

eBay Finding API enables applications to search for eBay items using eBay's next generation Finding Platform.

Selling

eBay Trading API offers authenticated access to private eBay data to enable automation and innovation in the areas of listing items, retrieving seller sales status, managing post-transaction fulfillment, and managing private eBay user information such as My eBay and Feedback details.

eBay Large Merchant Services provides a file based, asynchronous execution of large number of transactions, includes features that are better aligned with a Merchant workflow in the areas of inventory management and fulfillment.

eBay Best Match Item Details API offers authenticated access to private eBay data that enable our sellers understand factors affecting their search ranking. This API allows seller to get item ranking for a given keyword, identify items within a category that require their attention to improve and last but not least, share first page ranking analysis for a given keyword.

Selling Manager Applications is the next level of platform integration that allows developers to embed their applications where sellers manage their businesses on eBay.com.

Research APIs for eBay lets you retrieve historical eBay data. The Research APIs for eBay include:

  • Price Research API: Free for non-commercial use up to 1,000 calls a month
  • Advanced Research API: Available for license from DataUnison

Buying

eBay Shopping API offers access to public read-only data such as searching for items, products, eBay member profiles, popular eBay Items and popular searches.

eBay Merchandising API offers access to product and item information used to up-sell or cross-sell eBay items.

Users

eBay Feedback API provides an easy way to manage account-level Feedback data, specifically Detailed Seller Ratings (DSRs).

Alerts

Server Notifications API offers server notifications for subscribed events. Server notifications are suitable for server-side applications that can listen for notification events posted to them from eBay.

Client Alerts API enables retrieval of alert messages for public and private channels. Client Alerts are ideal for client-side applications like widgets and platforms like mobile, which require a light-weight API.

Call Limits

API call limits: Maximum number of API calls allowed for your application

System Announcements