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eBay API motors site – search by attributes

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is an option in the eBay API to search the motors category by attributes.

I.E. Search by Vehicle Year – Make – Model?

Basically I want to be able to search the motors site using the year, make and model method.

I have read through the documentation here:

http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/finding/callref/finditemsbycategory.html

And I could not find any way to search based on those attributes. I hope someone here can help me out.

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    So I have found the solution deeper into the API documentation. To accomplish what I need to do I need to use the findItemsAdvanced call as so:

    http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?
    OPERATION-NAME=findItemsAdvanced&
    SERVICE-VERSION=1.11.0&
    SECURITY-APPNAME=YourAppID&
    RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=XML&
    REST-PAYLOAD&
    paginationInput.entriesPerPage=2&
    keywords=1999%20chevrolet%20camaro&
    categoryId=40018

    The keyword will search the Item Compatibility option in the search results so for the keyword all you need to use is the year make and model.


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    You can search specifically by make, model, and years without using keywords. The eBay documentation is a little bit difficult to understand, but any of the parameters they search by on the actual site you search by using aspect filters. For instance, if you wanted to search for every Honda Civic between 1994 and 2001, it would look something like this:

    http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?
OPERATION-NAME=findItemsAdvanced&
SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0&
SECURITY-APPNAME=YourAppID&
RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=JSON&
REST-PAYLOAD&
paginationInput.pageNumber=1&
paginationInput.entriesPerPage=100&
categoryId=6001&
keywords=&
outputSelector=AspectHistogram&
aspectFilter(0).aspectName=Make&
aspectFilter(0).aspectValueName=Honda&
aspectFilter(1).aspectName=Model&
aspectFilter(1).aspectValueName=Civic&
aspectFilter(2).aspectName=Model+Year&
aspectFilter(2).aspectValueName=1998%7C1999%7C2000%7C2001
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