Comments on: A RubyonRails library for the ebay shopping API

By: ctagg

ctagg — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:39:18 +0000

I’m not seeing any probs. Can you give a same of request and response?

By: Mark C

Mark C — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:25:58 +0000

Hi, is anyone else seeing their apps throw errors recently? I think it’s because eBay have added a “depracated” message to the responses.

By: Mark C

Mark C — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:21:01 +0000

All I can say is… huuuge thanks If I wasnt such a rails-n00b I’d have my app live tonight already thanks to you.

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:59:46 +0000

Hi,

thanks for this great code!

I tried to receive a list of items with listing status “Completed” like this:

request = EbayShopping::Request.new(:find_items, :query_keywords=>”Cadillac”, :listing_status => “Closed”)

Unfortunatelly, it did not deliver the expected result. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,
boris

By: autopendium

autopendium — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:31:30 +0000

Yes, choosing the category is no problem, if you use find_items_advanced, which allows you to specify the category_id, and a whole host of other params. You can do something like to specify each of these:

EbayShopping::Request.new(:find_items_advanced, { :query_keywords => params[:term],
:site_id => params[:site_id],
:page_number => params[:page],
:max_entries => params[:max_entries],
:category_ID => params[:category_ID]})

For more details see the API info for FindItemsAdvanced: http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/shopping/docs/CallRef/FindItemsAdvanced.html

One possible gotcha is the category_ID is specific to each country (i.e. eBay US car parts category_ID is different from that for eBay Germany), so if you use items from several different eBay sites you need some sort of lookup table (I just use a constant defined in the environment file)

By: alexbo

alexbo — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:01:27 +0000

at the end it was my fault. i have to you use the production key, not the sandbox key.
after this it works for me.

thanks for this plugin, do you know if there is any possibility to specify the category in which the request will made ?!

thanks

By: autopendium

autopendium — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:25 +0000

alexbo
Are you using the original plugin (from http://code.google.com/p/ebay-shopping/) or the gem, from Github?

By: alexbo

alexbo — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:04:10 +0000

in app_id => “myappid”

By: alexbo

alexbo — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:40:49 +0000

hello,

thanks for this plugin.
but i have some trouble to use it.
i get a RequestError, ApplicationID invalid. i use for this my sandbox ebay developer application id. i also tried the production id, but nothing works, who can help me?
EbayShopping::Request.config_params({:app_id => “”, :default_site_id =>”77″}), is there something missing ?

thanks alex

By: autopendium

autopendium — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:51:24 +0000

Scott
Have a look at this post re ebay’s move away from Commission Junction:
http://pushrod.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/the-ebay-shopping-api-and-the-new-ebay-affiliate-scheme/
Should be straightforward. Works for me. Let me know if you have any probs.
Chris