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How can I make my FindingService findItemsByProduct API call work for items outside of the USA?

Here is a call to the eBay API to find items by EAN (similiar to UPC):

 

http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?OPERATION-NAME=fi....@type=EAN&productId=5050582929393

 

Notice that it doesn't find any items. But when I manually go to http://www.ebay.co.uk and search for the term "5050582929393", items show up. In fact, even one of the items has the EAN field filled with 5050582929393.

 

How can I make sure the API is calling for items worldwide???

 

finditemsbyproductapi-searchfindingservice
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Looks like my URL got cut off... here is everything past svcs.ebay.com:

 

/services/search/FindingService/v1?OPERATION-NAME=findItemsByProduct&SERVICE-VERSION=1.7.0&SECURITY-APPNAME=[MYAPPKEY]&RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=XML&REST-PAYLOAD&paginationInput.entriesPerPage=1&productId.@type=EAN&productId=5050582929393

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fourwaymedia answered

Have you tried adding in the GLOBAL-ID=EBAY-UK please reference the ebay global id page below:

https://developer.ebay.com/devzone/finding/callref/Enums/GlobalIdList.html

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