Can I retrieve ebay listings data using list of item ids?

Question

For example I have a bunch of ebay items ids and I need to retrieve all listing's data, including specifics fields. How can accomplish such task?

I've found, that ebay api had an 'GetMultipleItems' operation for the Trading API, but it was deprecated. Now only Shopping API has such operation, but the problem is that the Shopping API responses with a 'payload' ebay answer sometimes.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use GetItemRequest to get your item's detail by supplying item_id

e.g.

$feed = <<< EOD
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetItemRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<RequesterCredentials>
<eBayAuthToken>$eBay_auth_token</eBayAuthToken>
</RequesterCredentials>
<ItemID>$itemid</ItemID>
<IncludeItemSpecifics>true</IncludeItemSpecifics>
<DetailLevel>ItemReturnAttributes</DetailLevel>
<ErrorLanguage>en_GB</ErrorLanguage>
<MessageID>$message_id</MessageID>
<Version>$api_version</Version>
<WarningLevel>High</WarningLevel>
</GetItemRequest>​
EOD;

$response = $eBay->InitCurl($feed, "GetItem");
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

Also refer This eBay Doc

Or Try GetMyeBaySelling which gets 200 items in one call

$feed = <<< EOD
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetMyeBaySellingRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<RequesterCredentials>
<eBayAuthToken>$eBay->auth_token</eBayAuthToken>
</RequesterCredentials>
<ActiveList>
<Sort>Title</Sort>
<IncludeNotes>FALSE</IncludeNotes>
<Pagination><EntriesPerPage>200</EntriesPerPage>
<PageNumber>$pageNo</PageNumber>
</Pagination>
</ActiveList>
<HideVariations>FALSE</HideVariations>
<DetailLevel>ReturnSummary</DetailLevel>
<MessageID>1</MessageID>
<Version>$eBay->api_version</Version>
<WarningLevel>High</WarningLevel>
</GetMyeBaySellingRequest>​
EOD;

$response = $eBay->InitCurl($feed, "GetMyeBaySelling");
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/Reference/eBay/GetMyeBaySelling.html