The ebay_search
source is designed to retrieve Ebay search result pages. We can return the HTML for any Ebay page you like. To see the response example with retrieved data, download this sample output file in HTML format.
The samples below illustrates how you can get an Ebay search result.
curl 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
--user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"source": "ebay_search",
"query": "shoes"
}'
import requests
from pprint import pprint
# Structure payload.
payload = {
'source': 'ebay_search',
'query': 'shoes'
}
# Get response.
response = requests.request(
'POST',
'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
auth=('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'),
json=payload,
)
# Instead of response with job status and results url, this will return the
# JSON response with the result.
pprint(response.json())
const https = require("https");
const username = "USERNAME";
const password = "PASSWORD";
const body = {
source: "ebay_search",
query: "shoes"
};
const options = {
hostname: "realtime.oxylabs.io",
path: "/v1/queries",
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
Authorization:
"Basic " + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString("base64"),
},
};
const request = https.request(options, (response) => {
let data = "";
response.on("data", (chunk) => {
data += chunk;
});
response.on("end", () => {
const responseData = JSON.parse(data);
console.log(JSON.stringify(responseData, null, 2));
});
});
request.on("error", (error) => {
console.error("Error:", error);
});
request.write(JSON.stringify(body));
request.end();
# The whole string you submit has to be URL-encoded.
https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries?source=ebay_search&query=shoes&access_token=12345abcde
<?php
$params = array(
'source' => 'ebay_search',
'query' => 'shoes'
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME" . ":" . "PASSWORD");
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
const Username = "USERNAME"
const Password = "PASSWORD"
payload := map[string]interface{}{
"source": "ebay_search",
"query": "shoes"
}
jsonValue, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
client := &http.Client{}
request, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
"https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
bytes.NewBuffer(jsonValue),
)
request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
response, _ := client.Do(request)
responseText, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
fmt.Println(string(responseText))
}
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace OxyApi
{
class Program
{
static async Task Main()
{
const string Username = "USERNAME";
const string Password = "PASSWORD";
var parameters = new {
source = "ebay_search",
query = "shoes"
};
var client = new HttpClient();
Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://realtime.oxylabs.io");
client.BaseAddress = baseUri;
var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "/v1/queries");
requestMessage.Content = JsonContent.Create(parameters);
var authenticationString = $"{Username}:{Password}";
var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authenticationString));
requestMessage.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedAuthenticationString);
var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(contents);
}
}
}
package org.example;
import okhttp3.*;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class Main implements Runnable {
private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
public static final String USERNAME = "USERNAME";
public static final String PASSWORD = "PASSWORD";
public void run() {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
jsonObject.put("source", "ebay_search");
jsonObject.put("query", "shoes");
Authenticator authenticator = (route, response) -> {
String credential = Credentials.basic(USERNAME, PASSWORD);
return response
.request()
.newBuilder()
.header(AUTHORIZATION_HEADER, credential)
.build();
};
var client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
.authenticator(authenticator)
.readTimeout(180, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.build();
var mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
var body = RequestBody.create(jsonObject.toString(), mediaType);
var request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries")
.post(body)
.build();
try (var response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
if (response.body() != null) {
try (var responseBody = response.body()) {
System.out.println(responseBody.string());
}
}
} catch (Exception exception) {
System.out.println("Error: " + exception.getMessage());
}
System.exit(0);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Thread(new Main()).start();
}
}
{
"source": "ebay_search",
"query": "shoes"
}
We use synchronous Realtime integration method in our examples. If you would like to use Proxy Endpoint or asynchronous Push-Pull integration, refer to the integration methods section.
The keyword or phrase to search for products.
Enables JavaScript rendering when set to html
. More info.
Device type and browser. The full list can be found here.
- mandatory parameter
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