Product not found.

Hi,

I'm using sandbox api. I fetched the category and then I want to fetch products of specific categories. I check 100+ category id. But every time I'm getting 0 items.

https://svcs.sandbox.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?OPERATION-NAME=findItemsByCategory&SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0&SECURITY-APPNAME=MintBerr-TradingC-SBX-b08cfd9b0-9398ecf1&categoryId=183454

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<ack>Success</ack>

</paginationOutput>

<itemSearchURL>https://shop.sandbox.ebay.com/183454/i.html?_ddo=1&_ipg=100&_pgn=1</itemSearchURL>

</findItemsByCategoryResponse>

ul7293

Posted 3 years ago·Last reply 3 years ago

3 comments

ul7293

OP3 years ago

Thank you for your prompt reply. My target is to extract the past sale history of specific items. so Ebay does not allows me to use live marketplace insight api. and on the other hand sandbox does not have dummy item. So How i will test the things?

five_notch_trading_post

·3 years ago

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Looked in to it, as opposed to what I have found with the finding api, marketplace insights sandbox does have a few dummy items if you use the doc example, (removing category, produces 2 for iphone, and a few for harry), (these don't show up with the finding api, the subject of the initial question, so some sandboxed calls must have their own instance data -- so I stand corrected in my general language):

import requests

iafsb = ""

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer " + iafsb,
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Accept-Encoding": "application/gzip",
    "X-EBAY-C-MARKETPLACE-ID": "EBAY_US"
}

url = "https://api.sandbox.ebay.com/buy/marketplace_insights/v1_beta/item_sales/search?q=iphone&category_ids=9355&fieldgroups=ASPECT_REFINEMENTS,MATCHING_ITEMS&limit=3"

r = requests.Request(method="GET", url=url, headers=headers)
pr = r.prepare()
ses = requests.Session()
res = ses.send(pr)
print(res.content)

five_notch_trading_post

·3 years ago

425 View listings

Sandbox does not have dummy items nor does it mirror production, so finding/searching won't produce data even though it looks to otherwise be successful. Since that call is doesn't modify anything it, try it against production and see if you get results.