I want to develop an automated way to list Items on eBay. I have opened the dev api site but all the terms and the number of apis available confuses me.
What api am I looking for if I want to create listings and offer them for selling?
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I have a mobile app that allows people to upload information of clothes they have and share it with their friends. I have good traction - increasingly more users every day.
I want to create a new feature that allows users to sell unwanted items on eBay. Ideally, they'll click a button and the item will be available for sale on eBay.
I went through the developer APIs and I'm not even sure where to start. I can't tell whether I should try Retail-Standard Selling (New Sell APIs) or Traditional eBay Selling (Trading APIs) or even something else. Please could someone point me in the right direction?
Since we're speaking of unique items I would suggest to use "old" trading API AddFixedPriceItem
that's made for garage-sale and can do everything with just one call. (1)
while new Sell APIs are meant for stores selling new items in multiple quantities
and requires several calls to achieve the same result (create depo, images, listing, offer...)
BUT
despite what eBay writes (that will continue to support Trading APIs)
we see that every month some Trading APIs are decommissioned or deprecated:
for example last January they removed GetCategorySpecifics
and for next April there will be others..
Clearly you could mix the APIs, using the best combination of both
but since you're at beginning and since the 2 API family are completely different, I suggest you to use new Sell APIs
(1) Just to create the Listing, then several other are required to find proper category, itemsSpecifics, creating the profiles.... and so on..
I would like to collect statistics about listed apps in Shopify Store, like number of listed apps, number of reviews for an app, installations, average rate, app category and so on without any private information about stores which have installed the application. I find several blogs which managed to collect such info but unfortunately they are without open code. Is there any way to reach such info through API or something?
UPD
I have found ready-made solution on github https://github.com/usernam3/shopify-app-store-scraper
You can use any open source web scraper to deal with that. Simply scrape the Shopify App store, and build your stats.
You need no API. Just scripting of your own device. Pretty basic stuff.
Currently I am using the Shopify app Oberlo with it's chrome extension to manually send over dropship orders one by one.
This works find but I have between 100 to 1000 orders daily during testing.
Can anybody recommend a way to automate this using either an API directly from AliExpress (which the affiliate API is all I have been able to find) or possibly a laravel wrapper integrated with Shopify that has the ability to post dropship orders automatically.
Much appreciated!
I've been looking for similar documentation on AliExpress and found the dropshipping subsection of their API:
Get Product Info: https://developers.aliexpress.com/en/doc.htm?docId=35321&docType=2
Place an Order: https://developers.aliexpress.com/en/doc.htm?docId=35446&docType=2
Get Tracking info from a previous order: https://developers.aliexpress.com/en/doc.htm?docId=40656&docType=2
Other less-common dropshipping APIs are available from the sidebar navigation of any of these.
It also appears that you have to register as a seller (even though you're just buying) to get access to these dropshipping API.
You'll have to build a shopify app that can receive your orders and turn around to place them on AliExpress. I haven't seen a tool that can place orders automatically without coding.
i am researching the aliexpress api and other 3rd party options.
i can't seem to find any option for buying anything automatically.
I have searched theit API as well as googled for other vendors or options. They mostly only have catalog downloads, price updaters and the likes.
does anyone know of a way to actually buy/order/purchase a product from aliexpress via an api?
thanks
I'm a developer and I'm working on my own Shopify app
at the moment. I wanted to ask is there ability to get Product
download URL using API or may be somehow accessing Shopify Delivery app API? I
tried, but it seems that I can not get any info about downloadable
products using API, usual set of data only, like for any other
products. Is it really so, and there is no way to get product download
link using API (product API or may be order API).