Taxonomy API API

Overview

Use the Taxonomy API to discover the most appropriate eBay categories under which sellers can offer inventory items for sale, and the most likely categories under which buyers can browse or search for items to purchase. In addition, the Taxonomy API provides metadata about the required and recommended category aspects to include in listings, and also has two operations to retrieve parts compatibility information.

Taxonomy API is a shopping API from ebay.com. Requests are authenticated with OAuth. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 8 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

OAuth

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Shopping

Base URL

https://api.ebay.com/commerce/taxonomy/v1

Version

v1.0.0

Endpoints

8

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2020-11-23

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "https://api.ebay.com/commerce/taxonomy/v1/get_default_category_tree_id" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

const response = await fetch("https://api.ebay.com/commerce/taxonomy/v1/get_default_category_tree_id", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.ebay.com/commerce/taxonomy/v1/get_default_category_tree_id",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions