Also having issues with my business with the findCompletedItems API going away.
What alternatives can we use? Maybe we could share some ideas?
Does findItemsAdvanced - get sold data?
Anyone with access to the Marketplace API on here? Is that filling the gap effectively?
Hi @goldenb0y,
An alternative to the findCompletedItems call is the Marketplace Insights API, but please note that this API is restricted and requires eBay Business approval for access
REF: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/buy/marketplace-insights/overview.html
REF: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/buy/static/ref-marketplace-supported.html
Best Regards,
eBay Developer Support
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anyone know how to get a ebay business approval?
Can you clarify what you mean by business approval? Submitting an App Check form or apply for Marketplace API?
Depending on your design, you could log item numbers of interest with Browse or Finding APIs while they are live and pull the sales data from Shopping API after the items end. Terms may apply to data storage.
I generated a lot of revenue for eBay, and was explicitly told they will not approve me for Marketplace insights. So I guess you can forget about it. There is no alternative, and this shows how eBay treats developers who invested time and money on mastering their APIs.
Same, had over 100k users. I'm have genuinely no idea what the criteria is for being accepted, so frustrating that they won't even provide a reason. At this point, even if they did provide access, I'll take my time and skills elsewhere.
As an alternative fo findCompletedItems I tried findItemsAdvanced and according to the API documentation there shall be an itemFilter called "SoldItemsOnly" that can be set to "true", so only items that are sold should be displayed.
Additionally the response field "sellingState" should return "Ended", "EndedWithSales" or "EndedWithoutSales" if an item is ended.
But findItemsAdvanced only returns active items.
If you set the filter "SoldItemsOnly" to true you always get a result with a count of 0 items.
So why even have all this in the findItemsAdvanced call when it returns only active items?
eBay has its own API to help search for active listings. HOWEVER, eBay no longer supports searching for completed (sold) listings, as their "findCompletedItems" API has depreciated.
I needed a way to get only sold listings for my business, as I needed real sale data for phones and computers, so eBay's API was no help. I decided to create my own API that scrapes eBay for sold item data. You can input a keyword like "iPhone", and input other characteristics like brand, model, carrier, category, condition, etc. And it returns specific data about each item as well as the overall average price of all items. The average latency is 1,800ms.
An Hcaptcha is required every 2 hours, but my API can solve it, update the cookie header and redo the request with no loss in the success rate.
I noticed a lot of other people were having trouble with this same issue, so I decided to post the API to a site called rapidapi for anyone to use. It does cost money to solve the captchas, and it took me a lot of time to develop this API, so I do charge a little bit of money. Let me know if you like the API, what you would change about it, if the price is fair, etc.
API: https://rapidapi.com/ecommet/api/ebay-average-selling-price/
Documentation:https://github.com/colindaniels/eBay-sold-items-documentation/blob/main/README.md
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