How to implment Ebay API?

[Ajay]

I am wanting to know how to implement an ebay feed of auctions for a new site i am building (cheap - suv dot com) an example site would be (discountshavers dot net).

I am keen to get this one under way so any comments would be appreciated.

Cheers.

Aj.

 

[a.titus1]

If you want to do ebay feeds, eBay Affiliate Program - Create campaigns with powerful affiliate tools has the info you'll need to turn any search into a affiliate rss feed. Do one by hand, then figure out where the keywords for the search go and you can just replace them for each of your keywords/pages.

If you're talking about the ebay api, they have an entire developer center devoted to just that. I ended up going the api route for a few sites I'm trying out and they have examples in a number of languages. eBay Developers Program is the site.

 

[Ajay]

Thanks for the post a.titus1 just what i needed. So basically the content is pulled via a rss feed. Time to start tinkering.

Cheers mate.

 

[infoTim]

I use the eBay RSS feed, parsed and massaged using MagpieRSS from PHP and it does good for putting quick lists of auctions up. If you want richer control over how you present the data you'll want to use the deeper API's.

I use the RSS feed for quick lists of products to show in a pop or for a parked site and it does quite well.

I don't see the point of using something like AuctionAds when I can use the RSS or API directly and cut out the middle man.

 

[wesley]

I don't see the point of using something like AuctionAds when I can use the RSS or API directly and cut out the middle man.

This "middle man" does give you a bigger piece of the pie.. (Higher payout %)

 

[infoTim]

This "middle man" does give you a bigger piece of the pie.. (Higher payout %)

That's interesting...I had always assumed they were taking advantage of the overall volume, getting the higher tier payout and giving you the lower tier payout and making money on the spread. That makes me wonder how they make money then.

 

[a.titus1]

(I assume) they have an even higher payout, and they pocket the different. Each sale isn't a lot, but they have quite a few advertisers already so they're pushing a huge volume through.

 

[LazyHippy]

Prob worth checking their blog, but they did state they weren't taking any cut at the moment to encourage use. Their reporting is shit compared to CJ though!

 

[jened]

i wonder if anyone searches these boards as this is like the 10th time i've recommended people checking out hotscripts.com for ebay api scripts.

 

[Ajay]

Thanks Jened, checked out with hotscripts and found a neat tool that rips ebay auctions to a javascript contextual text ad on your site, will come in handy. Still not what im after but there is like 20 pages of ebay scripts on their, i was just wanting to see if anyone had used a good one they could recommend. Cheers.

 

[photoads]

save yourself a load of work - Build A Niche Store - The eBay Affiliate Script I paid a developer to integrate the ebay API, it worked for a while then it broke & he disappeared. I now use this script, its great

 

[prashcom]

can we pull item details of a user?

Hi,

First of all thanks for this wonderful forum..

I have few problems..

First I am very new in Ebay API development work
and really don't know how much effective this API is...

What i am trying to do is....

I have one Shop and here customers do normal checkouts....

Till now we are using third party tool to redirect our customer to there site and the customers pays on that 3rd party site only...

But now we want to do the same thing with our own..

So is there any API or Php written program which can do the same job...

My problem is :

1. How to redirect the user to My Site instead of third party / Paypal website for payment.... I think i need to generate token for that. SO for this if this is the solution then what i will do if my site is example.com

2. Once customer is in my site how i will get the customer's details (i.e Item details and amount to pay..)

3. What else i can do once the customer is in my site.

I searched a lot but really frustrated with the Ebay documentation and all.. i am not getting any good answer..

I hope in this forum i will get this answer...
Please friends tell me what we can do here..

I am sure this will be helpful for all Ebay API programmer..

Thanks!!