REST option for getCategories?

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jusrich_7650 asked Oct 30, '20

REST option for getCategories?

Is there an example of fetching categories via REST?

Heres an example of what I'm trying to do currently, to get categories for ebay motors.

https://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/TradingService/v1?
SECURITY-APPNAME=myappid
&OPERATION-NAME=GetCategories
&SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0
&GLOBAL-ID=EBAY-MOTOR&API-SITEID=100

This isn't working and returns with a "1" :(

I don't have a ton of experience with SOAP, so anyway to grab data with GET url params, or even POST with body would be great. I've looked through a lot of the documentation around gettting categories and it seams a little sparse of examples here.

Thanks for any guidance on this topic!

categories categories list

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Answer 1 · 2020-10-30T16:40:02Z

clickimusprime answered Oct 30, '20

You can use XML post or SOAP with TradingAPI. Take a look at the Taxonomy API. It's REST and you don't have to sign up for it, but you need to use tokens.

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jusrich_7650 · Nov 01, 2020 at 06:21 PM

Thanks @clickimusprime for the response!

I poked around and thankfully I found the OpenAPI docs to know how to make the call. Glad they are moving to this format as the docs have been pretty confusing for getting categories.

https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/commerce/taxonomy/static/overview.html

For those that find this and just want to skip right to getting the categories the endpoint is

https://api.ebay.com/commerce/taxonomy/v1/category_tree/:category_tree_id

You'll need to send the need to send the Oauth header `Bearer {myoauthtoken}` along with the request.

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