XML creation for new posts

[tejado]

New ad's can be only created over XML. The API function create_ad is already there (which sends the input to the server) but the function/class to create the XML data is missing. It should be kept simple and no dependencies made to big XML libs...

Documentation of posting ad's: http://api.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/docs/pages/ads#write-ad

[makefu]

i know it is already 1.5h years but i'd really love to see this documentation 👍
tbh i do not really get the original documentation, e.g. what is really needed to create a new post with pictures and the like.

[tejado]

Seems they removed the documentation. I will check it!

[tc-maxx]

Hi

I also try the CreateAd-Request for some time. I only get the following error message:

<api-base-error xmlns = \ "http: //www.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com/schema/types/v1 " http-status-code = \ "400 ">


Can not unmarshal content </ message>
</ Api-error>
</ Api errors>


</ Api-base-error>

---

My request:

ad:ad

<ad:price>		
	<types:currency-iso-code>
		<types:value localized-label="EUR">EUR</types:value>
	</types:currency-iso-code>
	
	<types:amount>99.00</types:amount>
	
	<types:price-type>
		<types:value>SPECIFIED_AMOUNT</types:value>
	</types:price-type>		
</ad:price>

<ad:ad-type>
	<ad:value>OFFERED</ad:value>
</ad:ad-type>

<ad:poster-type>
	<ad:value>PRIVATE</ad:value>
</ad:poster-type>

<ad:title>Fahnenmast aus Auluminium 10m - 100mm</ad:title>	
<ad:description>Fahnenmast aus Auluminium 10m - 100mm - Viele Grüße</ad:description>

<ad:ad-address>
	<types:state>Leipzig</types:state>
	<types:zip-code>04103</types:zip-code>
</ad:ad-address>

<ad:contact-name>Maximilian</ad:contact-name>
<ad:user-id>xxxxxxxx</ad:user-id>
<ad:seller-account-type>PRIVATE</ad:seller-account-type>
<ad:phone/>
	
<cat:category id="87">
	<cat:id-name>Sonstiges</cat:id-name>
	<cat:localized-name>Weiteres</cat:localized-name>
	<cat:parent-id>80</cat:parent-id>
</cat:category>

<loc:location id="3878"/>
</ad:ad>

[makefu]

any update on this? i'd love to be able to create ads with images 👍

[felixb]

I've a jinja2 template for creating the xml from a dict.
I could inline it into the ebk_client. Are you interested?

[makefu]

@felixb totally! a gist would be fine as well

[anzgar01]

is there any way to get the documentation for the api? Every link I found gets me a 404 error.

Edit:
What I am trying to do is create an advanced search. For that I would need to send search requests to the api, which will then be processed further. I can't seem to find a call for that, only for "my ads" which is not what I need to do.
Thanks in advance :-)

[tejado]

You can find the doc over search engine caching or archive.org.
Feel free to create a PR to archive the documentation here :)

[waldekwg]

Could someone post an ad example that can be used with create_ad? It's very important for me. The documentation under archive.org is not available anymore

[tejado]

@waldekwg
Hi, please have a look here: #3 and the general documentation is still available under archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20160321233930/https://api.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/docs/pages/ads