eBay Developer Newsletter


December 5, 2007



	Top Stories



	Shopping API + PHP = Tutorial Fun! Do complex searches and get user info with two new tutorials. Try them out >



	Two More Ways to use Best Offer You can now auto accept Best Offers, plus usePlaceOffer for Best Offer. Learn more >



	ProStores Dev Program Makeover New SDK and more features for ProStores developers. Take a look >



	Technical Alerts and Product News

Minimum Donation Percentage Reduced for Motors
The minimum donation percentage that you can allocate to an eBay Giving Works charity for items that you are selling through the eBay Motors site has been lowered from 10% to 5% in consideration of the higher selling price of most items sold on eBay Motors. For more information, see eBay Giving Works. »

Trading API: GetSearchResults Changes
The following changes have occurred in GetSearchResults:

The SortByCurrentBidAsc input value (formerly for sorting items by the current bid price in ascending order) is no longer functional due to the new Price Plus Shipping Sort feature.
In the case of StoresFixedPrice items which are "Good Till Canceled," SearchResultItemArray.SearchResultItem.Item.ListingDetails.EndTime is 5 minutes later than the actual end time. The discrepancy is intended to facilitate renewal every 30 days of such items' end times.
GetSearchResults no longer returns SellerBusinessType for the German site (site ID 77) or eBay Motors site (site ID 100).




	Developer Community

Cool New Development Tool from Bungee Labs
Our very own Alan Lewis met with Lyle Ball and Brad Hintze from Bungee Labs yesterday and asked Bungee why developers should care about the software platform. Here's what they had to say:

When an application is ready for end users, only a couple of mouse clicks and the application can be made available through the Bungee infrastructure.

Create an account here and check it out. »

eBay Radio: Interview with Alan Lewis on eBay Desktop
Griff interviewed our very own Alan Lewis about eBay Desktop on eBay Radio this week. You can listen to the archived show here . His interview is the fourth segment on the show. Alan's interview was part of our showcase of cool tools. Catch the whole series here.

Developer Forums Thread of Every Other Week
Recently in the Getting Started forum, there were a couple of readers who wanted a simple (easy coding) solution to showing eBay items for sale on non-eBay web sites. User mushroomcrazy asked:

Is there a simple way I can get some code to serve up relevant auctions for my blog readers please?

(elzorro), once again, comes to the rescue with some great suggestions and even an example to help get his idea across. He hopes someone else can help further with a good source for flash or javascript scripts to look at...if you know of any please share your knowledge with us in the Developer Forums.

product updates

No product updates for 541.

events

Dec 3-7: Keynote at WISE 2007

developer pulse

Here are the Top 5 Developer Forum posts in the last 2 weeks:

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