search

colindaniels / eBay-sold-items-documentation

Documentation for eBay sold items API
7 stars 0 forks source link

question #2

Open michabbb opened 2 years ago

michabbb commented 2 years ago

hello colin,

sorry, i wasn´t able to send that message via rapidapi, so I try here:

is there a chance you could extend your API with the "history of purchases" (example: https://www.ebay.de/bin/purchaseHistory?item=175238622149) of a single item?

i would be happy if you could contact me about this.

----> info@macropage.de

thanks a lot! micha

tehfailsafe commented 2 years ago

Just saw your reply to my marketplace insights comment on eBay forum, and now you're here... lol. I'm pretty much screwed eh?

michabbb commented 2 years ago

@tehfailsafe ebay's goal is, to make it as hard as possible for everybody to scrape data. trying everything to block is more important to them than offering "normal" support to their developers. if you are a big company they kiss your ass, but if you are a regular nobody who is actually trying to make money with them, you are screwed, yes. which is ridiculous, because every developer that helps a seller, brings money to ebay, but they are more afraid of their data. their whole API ecosystem is a total mess. for instance: everybody is happy to finally see a REST API, but most people don´t understand that the new inventory API has NOTHING to do with the regular API and nearly everything is different. and the sandbox is not a sandbox, it´s a shitbox. yeah... in other words.... ebay want people to screw up so they can sleep well-knowing nobody is robbing their super valuable data 🙄 👏