A data file includes the information that a seller wants to pass to or retrieve from the eBay servers.

Each data file needs to contain data for a single seller, but can contain the data for many listings for that seller. The rate limits in the table below are for the Sell Feed task types (for each seller token) associated with each data file.

Each data file can contain thousands of item objects of the same type. For instance, an AddFixedPriceItem data file can contain the data to add thousands of listings to the eBay site for a specific seller.

Data files have a maximum size limit of 15 MB as regular or compressed XML (both formats are allowed), no matter how many requests they contain.

The frequency that each seller can upload or download files varies depending on the feed type within the associated data file. See the table below for the rate limits for each file's feed type. If the limit is exceeded, error 160025 is returned (see Error codes in createTask).

Note: There is a daily limit for each seller of 400 requests per LMS feedType (request type). Additional requests sent by a partner's integration to a limit-maxed seller are counted towards the partner's API level limit.

Rate limits for each feed type

LMS feedType

Request Type

Flow

Rate Limit

LMS_ACTIVE_INVENTORY_REPORT

ActiveInventoryReport

Download

25 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_ADD_FIXED_PRICE_ITEM

AddFixedPriceItem 

Upload

500 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_ADD_ITEM

AddItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_END_FIXED_PRICE_ITEM

EndFixedPriceItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_END_ITEM

EndItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_ORDER_ACK

OrderAck

Upload

200 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_ORDER_REPORT

OrderReport

Download

300 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_RELIST_FIXED_PRICE_ITEM

RelistFixedPriceItem

Upload

200 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_RELIST_ITEM

RelistItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_REVISE_FIXED_PRICE_ITEM

ReviseFixedPriceItem

Upload

150 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_REVISE_INVENTORY_STATUS

ReviseInventoryStatus

Upload

400 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_REVISE_ITEM

ReviseItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_SET_SHIPMENT_TRACKING_INFO

SetShipmentTrackingInfo

Upload

150 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_VERIFY_ADD_ITEM

VerifyAddItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

LMS_VERIFY_ADD_FIXED_PRICE_ITEM

VerifyAddFixedPriceItem

Upload

100 feeds / 24 hours

Note: If you have not received an Application Growth Check (to increase the daily call limit for your Seller ID), you will be limited to the default call maximum of 5,000 calls per day. This means that if your Seller ID has a call limit of 5,000 calls per day, you can send a total of 5,000 calls per day in your data files. As another example, if you want to add fixed price items twice a day, you could send 2,500 calls in the first file and 2,500 calls in a second file, or 3,000 calls in the first file and 2,000 calls in a second file.