eBay

The eBay API provides access to its online auction and shopping website where people and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide. 

How to Connect

There are two ways to connect to eBay: via the Sources connection wizard in the Web UI (recommended), or using SQL statements in the CData Virtuality Studio or the Code Editor in the Web UI. Here, we describe the first way; for the second way, see the subpage.

1. Go to the Sources tab and click + New Source:

2. Find the eBay button in the list of connectors or type ‘ebay’ in the search field and select it:

3. Enter the data source name or leave the default one, click Sign in with eBay, and follow the instructions (you can also watch the configuration tutorial available in the Help section):

Usage

The eBay API connector introduces a new virtual schema ebay that contains the following stored procedures:

In addition to these public API procedures, there is the ebay_examples virtual schema that shows an exemplary usage of the public API:

If not needed, you can delete all the example views directly by dropping ebay_examples.