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Marketing API

The Marketing API is part of the eBay Buy APIs. It retrieves eBay products based on a metric, such as Best Selling. This API helps shoppers compare products and motivate them to purchase items. You can use the other Buy APIs to create a buying application that lets users, eBay members or guests, buy from eBay sellers without visiting the eBay site. The Buy APIs provide the opportunity to purchase eBay items in your app or website.

This API uses the following resources:

  • merchandised_product - retrieves eBay products for a specific metric, such as Best Selling.
  • most_watched_items - retrieves items with the highest watch counts in a category.
  • similar_items - retrieves recommended similar items for a specified item.

REST
Endpoints
  • GET/merchandised_product
  • GET/most_watched_items
  • GET/similar_items

Charity API

The eBay Charity API provides buyers and sellers a formal way to search for supported charitable organizations and charitable organization details.

Note: The Charity API is supported only in the UK and US marketplaces.

For more information about using RESTful APIs, see Get started with eBay APIs and Using eBay RESTful APIs.

Sandbox vs. Production data

The data in the eBay Sandbox environment is static. It can be limited in scope and quantity, and is sometimes simulated or mock data. As a result, you should not depend on data in the Production environment to have the same limitations. Use good coding practices to anticipate the wider range and variability of data that your application is likely to encounter.

REST
Endpoints
  • GET/charity_org
  • GET/charity_org

Catalog

The Catalog API allows users to search for and locate an eBay catalog product that is a direct match for the product that they wish to sell. Listing against an eBay catalog product helps insure that all listings (based off of that catalog product) have complete and accurate information. In addition to helping to create high-quality listings, another benefit to the seller of using catalog information to create listings is that much of the details of the listing will be prefilled, including the listing title, the listing description, the item specifics, and a stock image for the product (if available). Sellers will not have to enter item specifics themselves, and the overall listing process is a lot faster and easier.

REST
Endpoints
  • GET/product/{epid}
  • GET/product_summary/search