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Exporting Your Fixed Price Listings

Some sellers set up partnerships with third parties, such as product search engines, to drive traffic to their listings, and need a way to provide their partners with up-to-date information on their listings and their URLs. If you choose to do this, eBay will make a file of information about your Fixed Price listings available for your partners to download. (Information about your Online Auction listings, which appear in regular eBay searches and categories, will not be included.)

To have eBay create a file of your listings, click the "Make a file of my Fixed Price listings available" from the "Search engines and comparison sites" section, and click the Apply button.

Within 12 hours, eBay will create the file and post it to a URL based on your Store's URL:

http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/Seller'sStoreName

For example, if your Store's name is "Fine Jewelry," the file will be posted to:

http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/finejewelry

For third-party partner sites such as Google Base, you will need to provide a different URL. This link can be cut and pasted and entered in the appropriate place on the other site.

For example, if your Store's name is "Fine Jewelry," the Google-Base specific file will be posted to:

http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/finejewelry?fmt=g

The file will be available at the URL for anyone to download. It is then up to you to make arrangements with third-party partners to download the file from the URL. eBay is not responsible for coordinating how the file will be used with a third party.

When you first have eBay create the file, it may take as many as 12 hours for the new file to become available for download. Once created (or re-created), it will remain available indefinitely, and eBay will keep it up to date. Whenever a third party goes to the URL to download the file, it will contain the latest information about your Fixed Price listings. The file can be downloaded a maximum of 50 times per day. Repeated attempts to download the file beyond this maximum number may disqualify you from using this feature.

The file will contain the following information about each listing, in the order shown (many third-party sites accept the file in this format):

  • Item title

  • Item description

  • The URL of the item page

  • Whether the item is orderable

  • Current price

  • Availability

  • Item number

  • Shipping cost (if you specified it in the Shipping & Handling field)

  • Gallery picture (if included)

  • Quantity

  • Price currency

The first link is an XML file in the eBay Store listing export format; the Google-Base file is in RSS format.

Listings in the Mature Audiences category will not be in the file.

Notes: Use of the information you permit eBay to make available to any third party will be in accordance with the third party's terms and conditions. eBay is not responsible for how information contained in the file is used by the third party. Some third-party partners may charge fees to promote your listings. In the event your listings are unavailable on eBay or on a third-party website through the use of this feature, eBay will only credit eBay fees as outlined in the eBay Outage Policy. eBay cannot reimburse any fees you may owe to third parties.