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Is there a way to get an item in another currency using the eBay API?

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  1. Very simple. All you have to do is change the site ID parameter. Since you didn’t specify a language, I’m going to assume you’re doing this HTTP-GET and just parsing the XML. The same principles will apply regardless of how you do it, programatically or not.

    For a URL:

    http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping

    • ?callname=GetSingleItem
    • &responseencoding=XML
    • &appid=[APPID]
    • &siteid=2 <————This, for example, is Canada’s siteid. 0 is US. This will change the currency returned under < ConvertedCurrentPrice>
    • &version=839
    • &ItemID=181195344321

    Put it all together and you get this copy/paste-friendly “http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping?callname=GetSingleItem&responseencoding=XML&appid=[APPID]&siteid=2&version=839&ItemID=181195344321”

    Make sure to use your app ID as the parameter.

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  2. You can use this call for currency change:
    Currency type can be changed in Ebay while listing an item using Add Item call in Ebay’s trading API.
    http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/xml/docs/Reference/eBay/extra/additms.rqst.additmrqstcntnr.itm.crrncy.html

    Thanks
    CedCommerce

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  3. You can and it’s actually very simple. You can use the Shopping API GetSingleItem.
    Depending on what currency you are interested in, all you have to do is change the SiteID on which you are making the call. For example, if you want to get the price in EUR, you can set the SiteID to 3(UK), or 77(Germany). You will also have to set the IncludeSelector to “Details”. This way, you will get a response that will contain the following fields.

    <ConvertedCurrentPrice currencyID="GBP">68.55</ConvertedCurrentPrice>
    <CurrentPrice currencyID="USD">92.9</CurrentPrice>
    

    where the CurrentPrice is the original price of the listing, on the ebay site the listing was made, and the ConvertedCurrentPrice is the price of the listing on the site that corresponds to the SiteID you supplied.
    You can see a full list of SiteIDs with the currencies they are using here

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