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This tool will extract descriptions from your active listings.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentEditor.htm
Enter seller name, eBay site, and click the button to retrieve listings.
For archiving, when the Scan Setup screen opens, uncheckmark all of the boxes and checkmark the "Force Archive" option at the top; then start the scan.
When the scan completes, a third screen will give three drop-open format options.
- Description spreadsheets (multiple descriptions in a spreadsheet).
- Description HTML files (individual description files).
- Scan reports (report includes some other listing info in a spreadsheet, with or without description).
Each of those options will produce zip files. Choose the one that suits your needs. The downloads labeled "original" are not available with the "Force Archive" option.
The descriptions are stored by Item Number, so match to your other eBay reports using that item number.
The third drop open window on that tool will provide some of the data that the tool pulled in for the "report", but the info is limited.
Use eBay's Seller Hub Report "Download" option to get your active listing data directly from eBay.
It seems a large number of sellers who ask this question would like an entire listing downloaded as the start to creating listings in bulk, or simply as a backup tool. But eBay has no such tool.
These are the columns that can be downloaded in an eBay Active Listings report at
Seller Hub > Reports > Downloads.
https://www.ebay.com/sh/reports/downloads
- Item number
- Title
- Variation details
- Custom label (SKU)
- Available quantity
- Format
- Currency
- Start price
- Auction Buy It Now price
- Reserve price
- Current price
- Sold quantity
- Views (future)
- Watchers
- Bids
- Start date
- End date
- eBay category 1 name
- eBay category 1 number
- eBay category 2 name
- eBay category 2 number
- Condition
- eBay Product ID(ePID)
- Listing site
- P:UPC
- P:EAN
- P:ISBN
eBay's report is missing shipping & package details and item specifics, and there is no eBay download option for photos or description.
These three tools can separately pick up the item specifics, photos, and description:
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ItemSpecificScanner.htm
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/BulkPhotoScanner.htm
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentEditor.htm
Another alternative is to look at third party listing services as a method to save listing data offline. Sellers previously had eBay's Turbo Lister for Windows, which was fully retired a few years ago, and eBay has recommended migration to SixBit for Windows as a lookalike product.
