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Allan
Allan

Reputation: 31

HTTP Post to Ebay Trading API using Curl

I am attempting to do a HTTP POST to retrieve order data from Ebays Trading API. I am somewhat new to this - as you may see. I first used their API Test Tool and was successful getting my actual order data via the Production environment.

I copied the HTTP header info and XML Requestion section, put that in a file, along with what I thought would make it a valid HTTP Post, and then used the Curl executable - called via a batch file.

This did not work - so I changed to a simpler request - GeteBayTime - and got the exact same results.

My batch file is ... (all one line)

Curl -X POST --header "Content-Type:text/xml" -d @postfile https://api.ebay.com/ws/api.dll  > out.xml

The postfile is ...

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: https://api.ebay.com/ws/api.dll
User-Agent: App v1.0
Connection: Keep Alive
Content-Length: 125
Content-Type: text/xml
X-EBAY-API-APP-ID:***-MyReal-APP-ID-here***
X-EBAY-API-VERSION:807  
X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL:707
X-EBAY-API-SITE-ID:0
X-EBAY-API-CALL-NAME:GeteBayTime
X-EBAY-API-REQUEST-ENCODING:XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GeteBayTimeRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
</GeteBayTimeRequest>

And the result (in out.xml) is ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<GeteBayOfficialTimeResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<Timestamp>2013-02-04 02:56:43</Timestamp><Ack>Failure</Ack>-<Errors>  
<ShortMessage>Unsupported API call.</ShortMessage><LongMessage>The API call 
"GeteBayOfficialTime" is invalid or not supported in this release.</LongMessage>   
<ErrorCode>2</ErrorCode><SeverityCode>Error</SeverityCode>
<ErrorClassification>RequestError</ErrorClassification></Errors><Build>15743293</Build>
</GeteBayOfficialTimeResponse

Can anyone spot my problem(s) ??

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2498

Answers (2)

Maik Neumann
Maik Neumann

Reputation: 11

I have the solution - I spend some time to find the right way:

Curl -X POST -H "Content-type: text/xml" -H "X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL:911" -H "X-EBAY-API-SITEID:3" -H "X-EBAY-API-CALL-NAME:GeteBayOfficialTime" -d @postfile.txt https://api.ebay.com/ws/api.dll

Postfile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GeteBayOfficialTimeRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
    <RequesterCredentials>
        <eBayAuthToken>Your Token</eBayAuthToken>
    </RequesterCredentials>
</GeteBayOfficialTimeRequest>

Upvotes: 1

Myroslav Koretskiy
Myroslav Koretskiy

Reputation: 11

only request body must be in data - 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GeteBayTimeRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
</GeteBayTimeRequest>

this values must be in header -

X-EBAY-API-APP-ID:***-MyReal-APP-ID-here***
X-EBAY-API-VERSION:807  
X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL:707
X-EBAY-API-SITE-ID:0
X-EBAY-API-CALL-NAME:GeteBayTime
X-EBAY-API-REQUEST-ENCODING:XML

Upvotes: 1

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