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POST/bulk_update_negative_keyword

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 updates the statuses of existing negative keywords, in bulk.

Specify the negativeKeywordId and negativeKeywordStatus in the request body.

Input

Resource URI

POST https://api.ebay.com/sell/marketing/v1/bulk_update_negative_keyword

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

This method has no URI parameters.

HTTP request headers

All requests made to eBay REST operations require you to provide the Authorization HTTP header for authentication authorization.

In addition, this method requires you to include the Content-Type header and its value should be set to "application/json". See HTTP request headers- opens rest request components page for details.

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

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Request fields

Input container/fieldTypeDescription
requestsarray of UpdateNegativeKeywordIdRequest

An array to update the statuses of one or more existing negative keywords.

Occurrence: Required

requests.negativeKeywordIdstring

A unique eBay-assigned ID for a negative keyword. This keyword ID will be generated for each successfully created negative keyword.

Occurrence: Required

requests.negativeKeywordStatusNegativeKeywordStatusEnum

A field that defines the status of the negative keyword.

Occurrence: Optional

Output

HTTP response headers

This call has no response headers.

Response payload

Response fields

Output container/fieldTypeDescription
responsesarray of UpdateNegativeKeywordResponse

A list of negative keywords that have been processed from the bulk request.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errorsarray of ErrorDetailV3

A container that will be returned if there are one or more issues associated with modifying the corresponding negative keyword.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.categorystring

The category type for this error or warning. It takes an ErrorCategory object which can have one of three values:

  • Application: Indicates an exception or error occurred in the application code or at runtime. Examples include catching an exception in a service's business logic, system failures, or request errors from a dependency.
  • Business: Used when your service or a dependent service refused to continue processing on the resource because of a business rule violation such as "Seller does not ship item to Antarctica" or "Buyer ineligible to purchase an alcoholic item". Business errors are not syntactical input errors.
  • Request: Used when there is anything wrong with the request, such as authentication, syntactical errors, rate limiting or missing headers, bad HTTP header values, and so on.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.domainstring

Name of the domain containing the service or application.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.errorIdinteger

A positive integer that uniquely identifies the specific error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.inputRefIdsarray of string

Identifies specific request elements associated with the error, if any. inputRefId's response is format specific. For JSON, use JSONPath notation.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.longMessagestring

An expanded version of message that should be around 100-200 characters long, but is not required to be such.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.messagestring

An end user and app developer friendly device agnostic message. It explains what the error or warning is, and how to fix it (in a general sense). Its value is at most 50 characters long. If applicable, the value is localized in the end user's requested locale.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.outputRefIdsarray of string

Identifies specific response elements associated with the error, if any. Path format is the same as inputRefId.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.parametersarray of ErrorParameterV3

This optional complex field type contains a list of one or more context-specific ErrorParameter objects, with each item in the list entry being a parameter (or input field name) that caused an error condition. Each ErrorParameter object consists of two fields, a name and a value.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.parameters.namestring

Name of the entity that threw the error.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.parameters.valuestring

A description of the error.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.errors.subdomainstring

Name of the domain's subsystem or subdivision. For example, checkout is a subdomain in the buying domain.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.negativeKeywordIdstring

A unique eBay-assigned ID for a negative keyword. This keyword ID will be generated for each successfully created negative keyword.

Occurrence: Conditional

responses.statusCodeinteger

An HTTP status code that indicates the success or failure of updating that negative keyword.

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.

StatusMeaning
200Success
207Multi Status
400Bad Request
403Forbidden
409Business error
500Internal Server error

Error codes

For more on errors, plus the codes of other common errors, see Handling errors.

CodeDomainCategoryMeaning
35001API_MARKETINGAPPLICATIONThere was a problem with an eBay internal system or process. Contact eBay Developer Technical Support for assistance.
35089API_MARKETINGBUSINESSWe are currently testing a premium ads product with a small invite-only group. We will share more information when we are ready to expand.
36337API_MARKETINGREQUESTYou have exceeded the maximum number of negative keyword requests in a bulk. Only {maxSupportedNegativeKeywordRequestNumberInBulk} Ids are supported per call.
36340API_MARKETINGREQUESTNo negative keyword found for negative keyword id {negativeKeywordId}.
36341API_MARKETINGREQUESTThere are duplicate negative keyword Ids in this request. You must remove the duplicate(s).
36342API_MARKETINGREQUESTNegativeKeywordStatus is missing or invalid. It is required for update.
36343API_MARKETINGREQUESTNegative keyword with negative keyword id {negativeKeywordId} is already archived and cannot be updated.
36348API_MARKETINGREQUESTNegative keyword id 'negativeKeywordId' is required.
36349API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe 'negativeKeywordId' is invalid.

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: Update Negative Keywords in Bulk

This example updates the statuses for negative keywords, in bulk, for a Promoted Listings Advanced (PLA) ad campaign.

Input

The inputs for this sample are the negativeKeywordId for the negative keyword(s) that shall be updated, along with the updated negativeKeywordStatus for the associated negative keyword(s), both passed in the request body.

POSThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/marketing/v1/bulk_update_negative_keyword

Output

If the call is successful, the details for the updated negative keyword(s) are returned.