How to find listing first?

[tlv-ny]

I'm looking for a better way of how to find ebay listing right after seller is posting them. Without any delays. Does anyone know's any app for it?

[shipscript]

@tlv-ny

When a seller posts a new listing, the content must pass through ebay's filters before the listing will appear under the seller's list of items for sale. Additionally, the listing must be indexed for keywords in order to appear in search.  Both of those steps can add a delay before the items are publicly viewable or publicly searchable.

This is the link to view a seller's other items sorted by start date, and, as you can see, it is a search function.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/tlv-ny/m.html?_sop=10

eBay has a "finding" API that will allow you to view eBay items that are publicly viewable before they are publicly searchable. You would need to run code on your webserver to use the API.

Perhaps explaining your application would help in finding an alternate solution.

[tlv-ny]

Snipscript, Thank you for your response. Can you please help me to understand it better, I'm just an average computer user but I would like to be able to find listings as the earliest as possible and if I need to try the API iI would like to know how. I was using the app ubuyfirst and still wasn't able to beat my competitors. I did everything fine using the app I'm a quick decider but still ended up losing new listings to others. I think that the app was running on delay sometimes. Do you know of how I can get what I want which is finding the listings before anyone else's? I don't have a server or anything like this, just a fast internet & good running desktop. Thank you so much

[shipscript]

@tlv-ny

If you want to look for items from a specific seller, you might be able to acquire them before they are indexed for search. But to look for a specific product from multiple sellers, you are back to the search routine, even within the API, because you will be making a keyword or category search request.

The application you had been using accessed listings through eBay's API, so you may not get any better than that. The API is a set of instructions that can be embedded into a program to request information from eBay. You would not be able to use it very effectively without a server, although it is possible to write a command line (a very long URL) to make a single API request from a browser. And javascript can be used to programmatically set up that request and parse the response.

To use eBay's API, you would need to sign up as a developer and eBay will give you a set of keys. Go to the Finding API  and look at example processes to see if you want to pursue that.

https://go.developer.ebay.com/dev-help-center

http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/finding/HowTo/index.html

In the second link, the source code for "JavaScript Tutorials (using API directly)" is the place to start since that code will work immediately in a browser after you put your own Production AppID (key) in the code near the bottom.

[tlv-ny]

Thanks again for a quick and sharp response. I'm intersted in searching for specific product from multiple sellers so if I do it by my own, do I have a chance to get faster results then using the current app? I can see that some selleers are faster then me, what can it be? how did they step up their game against me? It must be a littile faster way to go around, Dont you think?

Thank you in advance