Mining eBay Web Services: Building Applications with the eBay API (Paperback)

by John Paul Mueller (Author) "One of the most successful online businesses in the world is eBay..." (more)
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Product Description
Designed to help you master the many powerful capabilities of eBay Web Services API, Mining eBay Web Services is the most complete book on the topic. Focused exclusively on development features, it teaches you how to build practical, real-world applications with the eBay API. You'll learn how to: define a customized search, work with web service data, write eBay applications in nine popular programming languages, write applications for mobile devices, craft applications that target user needs. If you are an eBay entrepreneur, a third-party application developer, or an eBay power user, this book will transform you into an eBay whiz and give you that competitive edge.

From the Back Cover
Improved Speed, Accuracy, and Convenience—Yours for the Taking

eBay is continuously improving the features it offers buyers and sellers. Now, the biggest improvements are ones you can build for yourself.

Mining eBay Web Services teaches you to create custom applications that automate buying and selling tasks and make searches more precise. Do you have dozens of items to sell? You can prepare complete descriptions and terms and submit them all with one click. Are you searching for an item with special purchasing or shipping conditions? You can't do this manually, but your custom application can. Would you benefit from charting your buying and selling trends? This book shows you how to mine and organize information that simply isn’t available otherwise.

All by itself, the improvement in speed will dwarf anything you've experienced—especially if you connect to eBay via dial-up. But speed is just one piece of an entirely new way of navigating the eBay marketplace. Here's a little of what you'll find covered inside:

Creating new listings in bulk and automatically submitting them

Getting all the facts you need about an item in one step

Performing searches based on shipping or payment terms

Completing tasks more quickly by working with locally stored eBay data

Working with eBay's new authentication and authorization technology

Ensuring the accuracy of your listings

Quickly accessing buyer and seller information

Using the new Java and SOAP interfaces

Using calls to perform tasks not supported by the manual interface

Charting trends in your buying and selling habits

Tracking eBay listings with mobile devices

Developing secure applications

Automatically submitting feedback in batches

You'll learn to do all of this and more using the language of your choice: JavaScript, VBA, Visual Basic 6, Visual C++ 6, Visual Basic .NET, C#, PHP, or Java. You also get all the details on participating in various eBay developer programs, where everything you need as an individual is completely free.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (June 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782143393
• ISBN-13: 978-0782143393
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,381 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Little valuable information, lacking vital elements, September 5, 2004

By	eBayer - See all my reviews

I was looking for some guidance on building and application using the eBay API. This book was a disappointment because it talks about the eBay API in general terms at high level only. The book also has a shortage of examples.