Recommendation API

Name: Recommendation API API
Brand: eBay Recommendation API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecE CommerceStorefrontoauth21 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Get eBay seller recommendations for which listings to promote and the suggested ad-rate strategy via a single find endpoint.

Quickstart

Get started with Recommendation API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"get ebay promoted listings recommendations"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Recommendation API API.

Retrieve eBay's Promoted Listings recommendations for a batch of listingIds

Identify listings predicted to benefit most from being promoted with paid ads

Get suggested ad-rate strategies for each recommended listing

Filter recommendations by listing characteristics passed in the request body

GET STARTED

Start building with Recommendation API API

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Use for: Get Promoted Listings recommendations for my top 100 active listings, Find which of my listings eBay recommends I promote with paid ads, Retrieve the suggested ad-rate strategy for a specific listingId, Check whether eBay recommends a listing for Promoted Listings

Not supported: Does not handle campaign creation, bidding execution, or analytics reporting — use for eBay Promoted Listings recommendations and suggested ad-rate strategies only.

The eBay Recommendation API gives sellers programmatic recommendations to improve their listings, starting with Promoted Listings ad recommendations. Its single endpoint, POST /find, returns recommended actions for one or more listingIds, telling the seller which listings would benefit from being promoted and the suggested ad-rate strategies. Sellers integrate it with Promoted Listings flows so they only spend ad budget on listings eBay's models predict will respond.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Recommendation API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Smart Promoted Listings Campaign Building

Rather than promoting every active listing, sellers can call POST /find with their listingIds and receive eBay's recommendation on which would benefit from being promoted. The response includes suggested ad-rate strategies so the seller can start a campaign with eBay-informed bids. This typically improves ROAS because budget concentrates on listings with predicted lift.

POST /find with the seller's top 100 active listingIds and read the recommendation response to choose which to promote.

Periodic Ad-Rate Strategy Refresh

Marketplace dynamics shift, so the recommended ad-rate for a listing changes over time. Sellers schedule a recurring job that calls POST /find on their full active inventory to refresh the suggested ad-rates and update the corresponding Promoted Listings ads via the Marketing API. The combined flow keeps bids aligned with eBay's current recommendations.

Run POST /find weekly across active listings, compare the recommended ad-rates with current bids, and update bids via the Marketing API where the recommendation has changed.

Decision Support for Manual Sellers

Smaller sellers who manage campaigns by hand can use a one-shot recommendation pull to decide where to put their first ad budget. The Recommendation API exposes which listings eBay's models predict will respond to paid promotion and the recommended starting bid, so a seller without paid-search experience has a sensible baseline.

Call POST /find with all of the seller's active listingIds and present the top 10 recommendations to the seller as a starting Promoted Listings shortlist.

AI Agent Promoted Listings Curator

An AI agent integrated with a seller's commerce platform can use Jentic to discover the Recommendation API, pull recommendations, and orchestrate Promoted Listings creation through the Marketing API in a single workflow. The agent uses recommendations as the input to a campaign-launch step and can re-evaluate weekly without seller intervention.

Through Jentic, search 'get ebay promoted listings recommendations', load the POST /find schema, and execute it to build a Promoted Listings campaign from the recommended listings.

Key Endpoints

1 endpoints — the ebay recommendation api gives sellers programmatic recommendations to improve their listings, starting with promoted listings ad recommendations.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/find

Get Promoted Listings recommendations for a batch of listingIds

POST

/find

Get Promoted Listings recommendations for a batch of listingIds

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

OAuth 2.0 client credentials and refresh tokens for the sell.marketing scope used by Recommendation calls are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive short-lived access tokens scoped to the operation and never see the raw secret.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search 'get ebay promoted listings recommendations' and Jentic returns the POST /find operation with its input schema for listingIds and filters, so the agent can call it without reading eBay developer docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration with the eBay Recommendation API takes 1-2 days for OAuth and request shaping. Through Jentic the search-load-execute flow is under an hour once the seller account is connected.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

eBay Marketing API

Creates the Promoted Listings campaigns whose ads the Recommendation API suggests

Use Recommendation to pick listings, then Marketing to create the actual ads with the suggested ad-rate.

Complementary

eBay Analytics API

Seller traffic and rating data that informs which recommendations to act on

Use Analytics to validate that listings flagged by Recommendation actually receive enough traffic to benefit from promotion.

Complementary

eBay Account API

Manages seller policies required before launching Promoted Listings campaigns

Use Account to confirm fulfillment and return policies before acting on Recommendation API output.

FAQs

Specific to using Recommendation API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the eBay Recommendation API use?

The eBay Recommendation API uses OAuth 2.0 (the api_auth scheme) with seller-scoped tokens. Through Jentic, the OAuth client credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and the agent receives only short-lived scoped access tokens at call time.

Can I get Promoted Listings recommendations for my eBay inventory?

Yes. POST /find accepts an array of listingIds and returns eBay's recommendation on which to promote, along with the suggested ad-rate strategy for each recommended listing.

What are the rate limits for the eBay Recommendation API?

The Recommendation API shares the eBay Sell API call quota tied to the seller's Application Growth Check tier rather than per-endpoint limits in the spec. Batching listingIds in a single POST /find keeps call volume low at scale.

How do I get Promoted Listings recommendations through Jentic?

Search 'get ebay promoted listings recommendations' in Jentic, load the POST /find schema, pass an array of listingIds, and Jentic executes the call. The response identifies which listings to promote and at what ad-rate.

Does the eBay Recommendation API give recommendations for non-Promoted-Listings actions?

No. Today the spec exposes only Promoted Listings recommendations through the find endpoint. Other recommendation types are not part of this API surface.