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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

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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

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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

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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

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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