I just want to get all ebay products name and their description, is there any way to do that? I have study their api documentation but there is no api that can return all products name,detail they have different api’s some for category search,individual search but i need all product information at once.
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I’m about 80% sure you can’t do that. eBay’s pretty big, so it’d be a large drain on resources if they let people download that quantity of data. Instead, you have to target your searches/needs.
They also have prohibitions on certain ways that people might aggregate data from their API to deduce sell-thru metrics and other site-wide birds-eye-view figures. Again, another reason they probably don’t allow such grand data downloads.
GetSellerList
“Use this call to retrieve items … including item data.”
https://developer.ebay.com/devzone/xml/docs/reference/ebay/GetSellerList.html
You have to add option OutputSelector “Description” to get item description.
Example:
Use GetSellerList with options like:
I fully agreed with Helios as developer that is searching a way to retreive item statistics by itemid , i found there’s no way to retreive star ratings on item.
Make a getfeedback/getorders/getitem and many others calls with itemid/lineorderid as parameters are useless on trading api in order to retreive detail notation or average on a specific item/sell.
Statistics are on the whole seller/buyer activities not on item specifics ratings even with ItemID and ReturnAll as parameters, it’s a shame for ebay.
Call:
[Version] => 949
[DetailLevel] => ReturnAll
[ItemID] => 127****223