GET/ad_campaign/{campaign_id}/suggest_items
Note: This method is only available for select partners who have been approved for the eBay Promoted Listings Advanced (PLA) program. For information about how to request access to this program, refer to Promoted Listings Advanced Access Requests in the Promoted Listings Playbook. To determine if a seller qualifies for PLA, use the getAdvertisingEligibility method in Account API.
This method allows sellers to obtain ideas for listings, which can be targeted for Promoted Listings campaigns.
Input
Resource URI
This method is supported in Sandbox environment. To access the endpoint, just replace the api.ebay.com
root URI with api.sandbox.ebay.com
URI parameters
Parameter | Type | Description |
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category_ids | string | Specifies the category ID that is used to limit the results. This refers to an exact leaf category (the lowest level in that category and has no children). This field can have one category ID, or a comma-separated list of IDs. To return all category IDs, set to null . Maximum: 10 Occurrence: Optional |
limit | string | Specifies the maximum number of campaigns to return on a page in the paginated response. If no value is specified, the default value is used. Default: 10 Minimum: 1 Maximum: 1000 Occurrence: Optional |
offset | string | Specifies the number of campaigns to skip in the result set before returning the first report in the paginated response. Combine offset with the limit query parameter to control the items returned in the response. For example, if you supply an offset of Default: 0 Occurrence: Optional |
campaign_id | string | A unique eBay-assigned ID for an ad campaign that is generated when a campaign is created. Note: You can retrieve the campaign IDs for a specified seller using the getCampaigns method. Occurrence: Required |
HTTP request headers
All requests made to eBay REST operations require you to provide the Authorization
HTTP header for authentication authorization.
All other standard RESTful request headers are optional. For more information on standard RESTful request headers, see the HTTP request headers- opens rest request components page table.
OAuth scope
This request requires an access token created with the authorization code grant flow, using one or more scopes from the following list (please check your Application Keys page for a list of OAuth scopes available to your application):
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.marketing
See OAuth access tokens for more information.
Request payload
This call has no payload.
Request fields
This call has no field definitions.
Output
HTTP response headers
This call has no response headers.
Response payload
Response fields
Output container/field | Type | Description |
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href | string | The URI of the current page of results from the result set. Occurrence: Conditional |
limit | integer | The number of items returned on a single page from the result set. This value can be set in the request with the limit query parameter. Occurrence: Conditional |
next | string | The call URI that can be used to retrieve the next page in the result set. This value is returned only if there is an additional page of results to display from the result set. Occurrence: Conditional |
offset | integer | The number of results skipped in the result set before listing the first returned result. This value can be set in the request with the offset query parameter. Default: 0 Note: The items in a paginated result set use a zero-based list, where the first item in the list has an offset of 0 . Occurrence: Conditional |
prev | string | The call URI that can be used to retrieve the previous page in the result set. Basically, all of the request parameters will remain the same except the offset value, which will be decreased to retrieve the previous page of results. Occurrence: Conditional |
suggestedItems | array of TargetingItems | A list of suggested items in the paginated collection. Occurrence: Conditional |
suggestedItems.bases | array of ItemBasis | The metrics and additional information for the items. Occurrence: Conditional |
suggestedItems.bases.estimatedValue | integer | The estimated value of the search impressions for items based on the provided dimensions. Occurrence: Always |
suggestedItems.bases.metric | TargetingMetricsEnum | The basis of the statistics. Occurrence: Always |
suggestedItems.listingId | string | The listing ID of the targeted item. Occurrence: Always |
total | integer | The total number of items retrieved in the result set. Occurrence: Conditional |
HTTP status codes
This call can return one of the following HTTP status codes. For an overview of the status codes, see HTTP status codes in Using eBay RESTful APIs.
Status | Meaning |
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200 | Success |
400 | Bad Request |
404 | Not Found |
409 | Business error |
500 | Internal Server error |
Error codes
For more on errors, plus the codes of other common errors, see Handling errors.
Code | Domain | Category | Meaning |
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35001 | API_MARKETING | APPLICATION | There was a problem with an eBay internal system or process. Contact eBay Developer Technical Support for assistance. |
35008 | API_MARKETING | REQUEST | The category Id {categoryId} is not valid. |
35029 | API_MARKETING | REQUEST | The 'limit' has to be greater than zero and less than {maxLimitValue}. |
35030 | API_MARKETING | REQUEST | The 'offset' cannot be less than zero. |
35041 | API_MARKETING | REQUEST | The 'marketplaceId' is required. |
35045 | API_MARKETING | REQUEST | No campaign found for campaign id {campaign_id}. |
35051 | API_MARKETING | BUSINESS | 'marketplaceId' {marketplaceId} is not supported. Promoted Listings is supported only on these marketplaces: {supportedMarketplaces}. |
35090 | API_MARKETING | REQUEST | Category ID limit exceeded. You can pass up to a maximum of {maxCategoryLimit} category IDs per request. |
Warnings
This call has no warnings.
Samples
New to making API calls? Please see Making a Call.
Note: Identifiers, such as order IDs or user IDs, and personal data in these samples might be anonymized or may no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, substitute current, relevant eBay data in your requests.
Sample 1: Retreive Listing Suggestions
This example retrieves ideas for listings, which can be targeted for Promoted Listings campaigns.
Input
The input for this sample is the campaign_id of the ad campaign for which suggestions shall be retrieved, as well as the category_ids, offset, and limit query parameters.
GEThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/marketing/v1/ad_campaign/1********4/suggest_items?category_ids=2********6,2********7&offset=10&limit=10
Output
If the call is successful, listing suggestions for the specified campaign and categories are returned.