findCompleteItems rejects call after 5 calls.

[sh0552]

As far as I know, search api could be called 5000 times per day but I'm banned after 5 calls. Is there extra permission I need to get?

[shipscript]

@sh0552 

The findCompletedItems call has been deprecated for some time:  

https://developer.ebay.com/devzone/finding/CallRef/findCompletedItems.html

The only replacement for that call is limited to approved developers.

[rpgmarket]

Hello - what would be a justified reason for accessing the history of completed sales, through the marketing insights API for example?  I read another post saying that using the API for market research is not permitted, so what would be other benefits of accessing the history of sold items?

[serendipity_inc]

Besides the limited call you mentioned, are you aware of any other way/call to pull through completed item data?

[shipscript]

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@serendipity_inc wrote:

Besides the limited call you mentioned, are you aware of any other way/call to pull through completed item data?

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If it is your own account, then use the one of the Sell APIs to fetch sold or ended items that are still within the 90 day range.

[serendipity_inc]

I am not just looking for my personal sell data. I am looking for total market data based on keywords for the past 90 days.

I don't believe any of the Sell APIs fit this criteria

[rpgmarket]

Hi Serendipity, it sounds like you and I are running into the same issue. I haven't made any progress on this, but I'm not sure if it's because of technical issues or policies.

From a technical stand-point, the findCompletedItems API works for a while, but then stops saying that the maximum number of daily calls has been reached. Another API called the Market Insights API also seems to provide this information, but I get an access denied message while trying to access it.

From a policy stand-point, I did find a comment from one person that the API cannot be used to perform market research. I can't find the comment now and I'm not sure if it was from a credible source, but does it mean we cannot do research on what price we should use when listing items on eBay?  It seems like eBay would want to help with this, especially since they provide Terapeak. My only challenge is that Terapeak only works with one item at a time and it doesn't perform calculations I use to come up with my listing price. I'd like to use the API and create my own program to handle this for me. It seems like a valid and reasonable use case, but I'm not sure how to confirm with eBay directly. Any ideas?

-Ed

[shipscript]

@rpgmarket 

@serendipity_inc 

@sh0552 

The developer license agreement contains the language that prohibits market research:

https://developer.ebay.com/join/api-license-agreement

[rpgmarket]

@shipscript thank you for the link - I'll take a look.