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RSS Feeds for eBay Searches

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800px-EBay_Logo_svgRSS feeds are popping up right and left these days for everything from news, to friends’ pictures, to Internet searches.  Recently I discovered that eBay has RSS feeds for auction searches.  It is really handy to keep an eye out for those unique finds that can easily slip by, or as a way to group searches into one place, or as a handy way to only see new new items posted for a given search.

Here’s the RSS URL for a search:

https://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults\&siteId=0\&language=en-US\&output=RSS20\&satitle= <search term here>

For example:

https://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&siteId=0&language=en-US&output=RSS20&satitle=digital+oscilloscope

I’ve been refining my searches on the eBay web site, then using my favorite RSS reader to keep an eye out for stellar deals (example of a highly refined search).  There is a little RSS icon at the bottom eBay RSS iconof a search results page you can use to grab the RSS URL.  If you don’t see the icon, it may be that your search is being run by the beta program (more info).

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P.S.  For my RSS reader, I love the super easy workflow of Google Reader and am collating my feeds there.  The single big list concept is awesome, it has great keyboard access (just hit 'n' to see the next item), is easy to use on my mobile phone, pulls feeds automatically for me without my PC turned on, has some really nice browser integration features, searching the feeds is fast, and it uses URL based APIs which makes integrating super easy (eg: add the feed above).

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  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2008
    Hey Jay, well some of my searches I combined into one search on eBay using the advanced search syntax.  Then for multiple searches, I put them all under one category in Google Reader called "eBay Searches".  Then I just look at the unread items under "eBay Searches" and Google Reader effectively aggregates the new posts from the feeds.

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2008
    Using ebay feeds is a great way to make some money. Just set up a free blog, sign up for ebay's affiliate program, find some feeds, and add it to your blog.

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2009
    It's even more fun when you use a web site like AuctionTypos and set up RSS feeds based on misspellings. You can find some really good deals that way.

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2010
    Heloo i've got one question. where did you get this RSS URL for a search:    rss.api.ebay.com/.../rssapi term here> tnx

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2014
    Hi, is there any way to get more then one result using this eBay rss url. I am appending "&frpp=50" number of result purpose. Thanks