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Have fun with Ebay’s API
By maurizio | August 23, 2007
Today I’m having fun with Ebay. As 99% of big web services, they provide an API. An API (Application Program Interface) is a “way” to connect to their work. Most of the time a Web Site’s API is in form of web service.They give you an url where you can send queries or XML files with datas. For example Ebay has a service where you can ask for products. You should simply send an XML like this:
<FindItems>
<QueryKeywords>Commodore 64</QueryKeywords>
</FindItems>
[...]
With an XML like this one you’ll get back a list of all products related to “Commodore 64″. Nice, isn’t it? I will write a nice Widget for my blog in the next days.
You are probably wondering if someone already did something like that, maybe you are even using it right now. I am thinking about AuctionAds. Yes, AuctionAds is “simply” a site built around XML files like the one I showed you (well, they offer way more than that, but the core of the service is coming from a query like that one).
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