ebay

Search eBay listings

Returns eBay listings matching a keyword, 60 per page on an active search, each with its item id, title, price, original price where the listing is discounted, currency, condition, image, seller handle, seller feedback percentage and count, units sold, buying format, and the listing URL. completed_items returns ended listings, and free_shipping restricts results to listings with free delivery. sold_items is temporarily rejected before billing because the upstream now requires a private eBay session cookie, which SocialCrawl does not accept or forward. Feed a returned item id into GET /v1/ebay/product for the full listing including seller reputation depth. When crawling, note that the result total eBay reports is an estimate that changes between pages, so it is not returned here: paginate until a page comes back empty.

get/ebay/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/ebay/search
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

querystring required

Free-text listing search, for example airpods pro or vintage seiko.

country'US' | 'GB' | 'AU' | 'CA' | 'DE' | 'FR' | 'IT' | 'ES' | 'IE' | 'AT' | 'CH' | 'NL' | 'BE' | 'PL' | 'SG' | 'MY' | 'PH' | 'HK' | 'MX'

eBay marketplace as a two-letter country code: US (ebay.com, default), GB, AU, CA, DE, FR, IT, ES, IE, AT, CH, NL, BE, PL, SG, MY, PH, HK, or MX. The marketplace sets the listing pool, language, and currency.

pageinteger

Page number, starting at 1. Prefer the universal cursor parameter. Native upstream cursor param. Send the universal cursor instead: the API maps it to this name for you.

sort_by'best_match' | 'price_low' | 'price_high' | 'newly_listed' | 'ending_soonest'

Result ordering: best_match (default), price_low, price_high, newly_listed, or ending_soonest.

condition'new' | 'refurbished' | 'used'

Restrict to one item condition: new, refurbished, or used.

buying_format'auction' | 'buy_it_now' | 'accepts_offers'

Restrict to one sale type: auction, buy_it_now, or accepts_offers.

show_onlystring

Restrict results with completed_items or free_shipping; combine supported values with a comma. sold_items is temporarily unavailable and is rejected before billing because the upstream requires a private eBay session cookie. SocialCrawl does not accept or forward session cookies.

min_pricestring

Lowest price to include. Applied by eBay and approximate, so filter on product.price.current if you need a hard bound.

max_pricestring

Highest price to include. Applied by eBay and approximate, so filter on product.price.current if you need a hard bound.

aspectsstring

Category-specific item aspect filter taken from a previous response, for example Brand:Apple.

cursorstring

Universal pagination cursor. Send pagination.next_cursor from the previous response back verbatim: the API maps it to this endpoint's native page (page style). You never construct, decode, or look up a cursor. Omit it for page 1.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "ebay",
  "endpoint": "/v1/ebay/search",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

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