eBay Seller API — Store Profile, Feedback & Ratings
Send an eBay username or store URL and this source returns the seller's profile as data: feedback score, ratings and store details.
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "ebay_seller",
"seller": "musicmagpie",
"human": "# eBay seller\n\n- **Seller:** musicmagpie\n- **Proxy traffic:** 1.58 MB\n- **Name:** musicMagpie Shop\n- **Feedback count:** 21561969\n- **Positive feedback:** 99.1%\n- **Items sold:** 51200000\n- **Followers:** 489000\n- **Location:** United Kingdom\n- **Member since:** Feb 02, 2011\n\nmusicMagpie is one of eBay’s most popular and trusted sellers. Save money on great entertainment and tech with our huge selection of CDs, DVDs, BluRays, Games, Books and tech at amazing prices. We refurbish products, giving them a second life - smart for you, smart for the planet. Buying from us isn’t just good for your wallet; it’s good for the environment too. We also sell new products direct from the manufacturer. These are just like the DVDs you’d buy from a shop, except often much cheaper! For the best deals on CDs, DVDs, games and electronics on the web, look no further.",
"machine": {
"seller": {
"id": "musicmagpie",
"name": "musicMagpie Shop",
"feedback_count": 21561969,
"positive_percent": 99.1,
"item_sold_count": 51200000,
"follower_count": 489000,
"location": "United Kingdom",
"image": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IKIAAOSwfQ1n0~~7/s-l140.webp",
"member_since": "Feb 02, 2011",
"description": "musicMagpie is one of eBay’s most popular and trusted sellers. Save money on great entertainment and tech with our huge selection of CDs, DVDs, BluRays, Games, Books and tech at amazing prices. We refurbish products, giving them a second life - smart for you, smart for the planet. Buying from us isn’t just good for your wallet; it’s good for the environment too. We also sell new products direct f"
},
"proxy_traffic_bytes": 1657495
},
"total_points": 5
}- You send
- An eBay seller username or store URL
- You get back
- Feedback score, ratings and store details for the seller
- Coverage
- eBay sellers and stores with a public profile.
- Price
- 5 pts — $5 per 1,000
- Charged only when a seller profile resolves. A username that doesn't exist is not billed.
Ways to get this data
Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.
| Approach | What it takes | Cost | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checking seller pages by hand | Open the storefront and read the feedback score | Free, and slow across many sellers | Fine for one seller, unworkable for a watch list |
| Building a scraper | Write it, host it, repair it when eBay's page markup changes | Engineering time | A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product |
| NeuralVerge | One request per username or store URL | $5 per 1,000, misses not billed | Returns what the store profile publishes — a snapshot, not a history of how it got there |
What you get back
Every field in the response shown above.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | eBay seller username. |
name | string | Store or seller display name. |
feedback_count | number | Total feedback count. |
positive_percent | number | Positive feedback percentage. |
item_sold_count | number | Total items sold, when eBay publishes a count. |
follower_count | number | Number of eBay users following the store. |
location | string | Seller's stated location. |
image | string | Store logo or seller image URL, when eBay publishes one. |
member_since | string | Date the seller's account was created, as eBay displays it. |
description | string | Seller's storefront description text. |
How to run it
The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.
One seller username or store URL per request.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-ebay-seller \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "seller": "musicmagpie" }'What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Check a seller's feedback score and store details before sourcing from them.
Watch a competing store's rating and details over time.
Screen sellers before recommending or integrating them into a sourcing workflow.
Verify a seller's standing before completing a purchase through them.
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
eBay sellers and stores with a public profile.
Read at request time.
This source returns publicly visible seller information, stamped with the username or URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.
- —Feedback scores are eBay's own aggregate and aren't independently audited.
- —New sellers or low-volume stores return thin profiles.
- —A seller's rating can move quickly after a run of disputes, so a single read is a point-in-time snapshot.
Questions, answered
This returns the seller's summary profile — score and store details. Seller feedback returns the individual ratings behind that score.
Related sources
Try ebay seller on your own data
One request format across every source in the catalog.