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eBay API

eBay search results and listing details: prices, bids, condition, sellers, shipping and item specifics.

Overview

Read eBay the way a signed-out shopper sees it on ebay.com: keyword search with eBay's own filters, and any listing's full details. Useful for price research, reseller sourcing, competitor and MAP monitoring, and catalog enrichment. Prices are in US dollars as ebay.com shows them. Sold and completed listings need a signed-in eBay account since mid-2026, so they aren't offered.

Source: ebay.com.

Try it live

Pick an endpoint and run it: real data, no signup, 5 free tries a day.

Endpoint

GET/v1/ebay/search

2 credits per request

Examples

Keywords *query

Keywords, as typed into eBay's search box, e.g. iphone 15 pro.

More options (8)

Conditioncondition

new, open_box, refurbished (any refurbished grade), used, for_parts, or any (default).

Buying formatbuying_format

buy_it_now, auction, best_offer (accepts offers), or any (default).

Sortsort

best_match (eBay's default), ending_soonest, newly_listed, price_low or price_high (price plus shipping).

Min pricemin_price

Lowest item price in US dollars, e.g. 100.

Max pricemax_price

Highest item price in US dollars, e.g. 500.

Free shippingfree_shipping

true keeps listings with free shipping only.

Category IDcategory_id

An eBay category number, e.g. 9355 (Cell Phones & Smartphones).

Pagepage

Page of results, 1–100; 60 listings each. Use next_page from the previous answer.

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Press Run to fetch live data

Results come back as a table you can download as CSV, or as the raw JSON.

Endpoints

Search eBay listingsGET /v1/ebay/search · 2 creditsActive eBay listings for a keyword, with price, bids, condition, shipping, seller and how many sold, filtered and sorted like ebay.com.

eBay listing detailsGET /v1/ebay/item · 2 creditsOne eBay listing by item id or URL: price, condition, quantity sold and available, seller and feedback, shipping, returns, photos and item specifics.

Call it

Every endpoint is a GET with your key in the x-api-key header. For example, Search eBay listings:

curl

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/ebay/search?query=nintendo+switch+oled" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Get a free API key

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:

Tool	What it does
`ebay_search`	Search eBay listings: Active eBay listings for a keyword, with price, bids, condition, shipping, seller and how many sold, filtered and sorted like ebay.com.
`ebay_item`	eBay listing details: One eBay listing by item id or URL: price, condition, quantity sold and available, seller and feedback, shipping, returns, photos and item specifics.

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