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Getting Started with eBay Web Services
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In this Presentation
• Opportunities
• eBay’s APIs
• Prerequisites
• Signing Up
• Resources
• Q&A
Opportunities
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Make Money
Marketing As a seller, highlight your items on other sites
Commissions Drive new users or bids to eBay
Marketing + Commissions Make commissions on items you are selling
Sell your app Find a niche, charge users to use your app
Sell your services Assist others with your eBay API skills
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Increase Visibility of Items You Are Selling
Create widgets that display your items
Put them everywhere you can– Personal Web sites– Blogs– Social spaces
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Provide Market Research
• Identify and convey trends
• Provide details
• Categoryfocused? Itemfocused?
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Mashups
• Categoryfocused? Itemfocused?
• Social spaces
• MapsCRAZ-
SMS !
Sharing
Mobile Integration
Group Buying
Visual Search
Structured Catalog
Popularity Tagging
Product Ratings
Video Integration
NIS Inventory
Multiple APIs
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eBay’s APIs
• Shopping
• Trading
• Client Alerts
• Merchandising
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Shopping API
• Retrievalcentric
• Anonymous
• Faster call response than Trading API
• Multiple payload formats (XML, NV, JSON, SOAP)
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Trading API
• More advanced: reading and writing of transactional data
• Requires keys—a higher level of security than for Shopping API
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Client Alerts API
• Seller and buyer notifications, alerts
• Event/subscription model
• Asynchronous
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Merchandising API
• Crossselling and upselling
• Most watched items
• Deals
• Related items
• Topselling products
Prerequisites
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Prerequisites: You Are Ready to Program
Pick the Dev Center that is best for you
JavaScript JavaScript, JSON, AJAX
Flash ActionScript, Flex
PHP PHP, Perl, Python
Windows .NET, C#, ASP, VB
Java Java, JSP
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Prerequisite: You Are Ready to Read
• API Docs
• Knowledge Base
• Forums
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Prerequisite:
• Forums– One for each language– One for docs
• Paid support– www.developer.ebay.com/support US $75 per hour
Signing Up
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Sign Up
www.developer.ebay.com: Quick Start
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Join
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A snippet of the Join page…
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From My Account, return to Quick Start
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Get your application keys
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On the My Account page, generate keys
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You Are Ready to Explore
Run the sample
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Experimenting With the Sample
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View the XML and Web page results
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Edit… Rerun…
<script src="http://open.api.ebay.com/shopping
?appid=EBAYxyz&version=569&callname=FindItems
&ItemSort=BestMatch&QueryKeywords=ipod
&responseencoding=JSON&callback=true">
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Resources
• Documentation– Web Service Guide– Call Reference
• WSDL
• Knowledge Base
• Developer codebase
• Find them all at www.developer.ebay.com
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Good luck and happy coding!
http://developer.ebay.com.sg