I would like to ask you. How to retrieve image by the specific URL (that I already have)? I found a lots of articles about how to retrieve images and items by some keywords etc. but I don’t need that search.
I tried to make a crawler to get the image, but it’s impossible until I don’t use the ebay API (the url to image is hidden).
Is it possible to retrieve images even if I don’t want to use ebay AppID, so just somehow crawl the page?
I am not sure what solutions I can get, but I need to use it with PHP
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Here is an example of how to get the pictures via the API, just replace your appid and the item id you want (the pictures are in Item->PictureURL):
Without API you can just use
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/1234567890123-0-1/s-l250/p.jpg
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/%5BEbayId%5D-0-1/s-l%5Bwidth%5D/p.jpg