canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/ebay.com/sell-recommendation # Ebay Recommendation API 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. ## For AI agents Get eBay seller recommendations for which listings to promote and the suggested ad-rate strategy via a single find endpoint. ## Scope Does not handle campaign creation, bidding execution, or analytics reporting - use for eBay Promoted Listings recommendations and suggested ad-rate strategies only. ## Capabilities - 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 - Pre-qualify Promoted Listings campaigns before bidding by surfacing eBay's data-driven picks ## Use cases ### 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. Example prompt: 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. Example prompt: 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. Example prompt: 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. Example prompt: 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 | Method | Path | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | POST | /find | Get Promoted Listings recommendations for a batch of listingIds | ## Key resources - **find** — Returns Promoted Listings recommendations and suggested ad-rate strategies for a list of listingIds ## Why Jentic - **Setup:** Wiring the eBay Recommendation API by hand means implementing eBay's OAuth 2.0 authorization-code flow for a seller user token, refreshing it, and pointing requests at the api.ebay.com sell/recommendation host. Through Jentic you install once, import the Recommendation API from the API Directory, store the eBay OAuth credentials once, and your agent calls it. - **Permission scoping:** This API exposes a single endpoint, POST /find, with no resource id in the URL path, so scope it by operation: you limit the agent to requesting Promoted Listings recommendations for the listing ids and filters you pass. It returns suggested ad-rate strategies and does not create or run campaigns. - **Credential handling:** Your eBay OAuth seller credentials are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. They never enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context. - **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get eBay Promoted Listings recommendations', and Jentic returns the POST /find operation with its input schema for listing ids and filters so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs. ## Related APIs - **eBay Marketing API** — Creates the Promoted Listings campaigns whose ads the Recommendation API suggests - **eBay Analytics API** — Seller traffic and rating data that informs which recommendations to act on - **eBay Account API** — Manages seller policies required before launching Promoted Listings campaigns ## FAQ ### 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 your Jentic One instance 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. ### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the eBay Recommendation API? Yes. Because you run Jentic One self-hosted, your own rules decide which operations and credentials the agent may use. This API exposes a single endpoint, POST /find, so you scope the agent to requesting Promoted Listings recommendations for only the listing ids and filters you allow it to pass. That operation returns suggested ad-rate strategies and cannot create or run campaigns, so the agent stays read-only against your eBay seller account.