Getting full item description for multiple items?

[toomanymags]

Hello.  I think there are three similar messages in this Browse forum, but hey, I'll give it a try. The old API would allow you to get information (including full description) for 20 items at a time with one API call.  As far as I can tell, Browse requires 20 API calls to get the full description for 20 items. I realize that Ebay seems to be trying to make the written item descriptions into nothing (or AI junk), but I certainly appreciate good descriptions, and I'd like to programmatically grab some so I can winnow them better than Ebay's search can by itself. So I guess what I'd like is some confirmation that I fully understand this situation and that I should figure out some other way to limit the number of possible hits in the search because I'm going to have to use one API call for every item description that I want.

Thanks.

[denkmann · Accepted solution]

It is exactly as you describe yourself. You could query 20 articles at once via the Shopping API. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible with the Browse API. Although there is getItems (Bulk), this call only returns a few pieces of data. I very much regret this limitation.