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searching ebay motors UK

I have been updating all my old finding api scripts to the browse api. Everything (finally) seems to be working pretty well.

Until I got to a site about motors... I can access the US items by using the globalid EBAY_MOTORS (not EBAY_MOTORS_US as it seems to suggest in places).

My problem is accessing motors from other sites. As far as I can see I should use EBAY_GB as the globalid for the UK, but when I do I get the error 'category_ids' query parameter is invalid

The category number is fine as far as I can tell, and the error goes away if I use any other non-motors categories. Anybody got any suggestions? Thanks!
ebay motorsuk
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Hi @lord_juju,

To get motors from EBAY_GB please use EBAY_MOTORS as globalId and use filter in request url "filter=itemLocationCountry:GB'.
REF: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/buy/static/ref-buy-browse-filters.html#itemLocationCountry

X-EBAY-C-MARKETPLACE-ID:EBAY_MOTORS

Request URL: https://api.ebay.com/buy/browse/v1/item_summary/search?category_ids=6001&filter=itemLocationCountry:GB

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eBay Developer Support


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Thanks for your answer. But this does not give results for actual vehicles. With cat 6024 (motorcycles) I get nothing. With cat 6028 (motorcycle parts) I get hundreds of results (parts, but I want actual vehicles, not parts)

for example:


This gives nothing

https://api.ebay.com/buy/browse/v1/item_summary/search?q=kawasaki&limit=200&category_ids=6024&filter=itemLocationCountry%3AGB&sort=newlyListed&offset=0

This gives numerous results

https://api.ebay.com/buy/browse/v1/item_summary/search?q=kawasaki&limit=200&category_ids=6028&filter=itemLocationCountry%3AGB&sort=newlyListed&offset=0


Am I doing something wrong? Or is this an ebay error? I have tried using the old UK category for motorbikes (422) and that gives many results, but most are sofas, paintings etc etc, depending on the keyword I used

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