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eBay provides a wide variety of APIs and tools to create and manage eBay listings and inventory.

Name Description API Reference Release Notes
Inventory API Create and manage inventory item records, and then convert these inventory items into product offers on eBay marketplaces. See Managing inventory and offers in the Selling Integration Guide.
Feed API Manage your eBay business by downloading or uploading inventory, order, and customer service metric files, and creating schedules. This API is designed to make a large merchant's workflow more efficient by leveraging eBay infrastructure to use parallel execution and to automatically retry on errors. See Using the sell Feed API in the Selling Integration Guide.
Merchant Integration platform Easy-to-use application that eBay sellers can use to manage product listings and orders.
Media API Create videos and documents which can be attached to listings. See the API's Business use cases for specifics.
Stores APIs Manage a store's category hierarchy. See the API's Business use cases for specifics.
Traditional Listing APIs The calls in this group are used to add, revise, relist, get, or end eBay listings. There are also calls in this group to revise inventory quantity for a fixed-priced listing, to upload pictures to the listing, and to retrieve items that you are currently bidding on or have won/purchased.
Inventory Mapping API Inventory Mapping API helps sellers create high-quality listings with AI-powered recommendations generated from their existing product data.