One of the things I have found very hard as an eBay API developer (with two certified applications) is the eBay search results page URL structure. My latest project requires me to build more complex eBay search URL structures on the fly. Below I explain how to create eBay URLs on the fly based on my understanding.
The search will return BIN only items, items available to certain countries, search title and desc, select a category, include a price range and show the eBay “welcome new user banner”. There are of course more variables possible but this is a good start.
The link above is a search for a “4gb ipod nano product red” the query section of the search should be simple enough to spot. You replace the spaces with “-” and append the search string to the search.ebay.com.
If you wish to then start exploring more complex variables you append _W0 to tell eBay search they are coming and then each variable is preceeded by QQ. The order of the variables appears not to matter.
So there you have an outline of some of the main variables in the eBay advanced search URLs, this definitely prooved really useful for me to create my little application, I hope it’s useful for you.
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