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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 URLs. If you choose to do this, we'll create a file of information about your fixed price listings that your partners can download. This file won't include information about your auction-style listings, which appear in regular eBay searches and categories.

If you'd like us to create a file of your listings, click the Make a file of my fixed price listings available link in the Search engines and comparison sites section, and then click the Apply button.

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

http://esssl.ebay.co.uk/GetListings/Seller'sShopName

For example, if your Shop's name is "Fine Jewellery," we'll post the file to:

http://esssl.ebay.co.uk/GetListings/finejewelry

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

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

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

The file will be available for anyone to download. You can then make arrangements with third-party partners to download the file from the URL. We're not responsible for coordinating how the file will be used with a third party.

When we first create the file, it may take as many as 12 hours for your file to become available for download. Once created (or re-created), it will be available indefinitely, and we'll continue to update it. 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 up to 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

  • P&P

  • Gallery picture (if included)

  • Quantity

  • Price currency

The first link is an XML file in the eBay Shop listing export format; the Google Base file is in the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 feed format. An RSS feed is a summary of web content that is updated regularly to keep members informed of the latest changes to a page or listing. For example, if you subscribe to a Shop's feed, you'll receive automatic updates whenever a new listing appears in that Shop.

Notes: Use of the information you allow us to make available to any third party will be in accordance with the third party's terms and conditions. We're 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, we'll only credit eBay fees as outlined in our Outage Policy. We can't reimburse any fees you may owe to third parties.