June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
Content preview from eBay Hacks, 2nd EditionBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Queue API Calls
Work around eBay’s API call limit.
Developers working under the Individual license, explained at the beginning of this chapter, have a strict limit as to the number of eBay API calls they are allowed to make each day.
Provided that your application uses the API efficiently [Hack #125] , this shouldn’t pose a problem. And as the theory goes, anyone needing more than 50 API calls per day is probably running a business on eBay and can justify the cost of one of the higher developer tiers.
Consider the following scenario. As a seller, you might have 55
separate auctions ending on a single day. If you use the script in
“Automatically Keep Track of Items You’ve Sold” [Hack
#112] , you can retrieve sufficient data for all your
recently closed auctions with only a single GetSellerList call. But if you use the script
in “Spellcheck All Your Listings”
[Hack #116] , you’ll need a
minimum of 56 calls: one to retrieve the list of auctions, and 55 more
to retrieve the individual auction descriptions. Run this single script
just once, and you’ll exceed your API quota for the day.
If you feel that exceeding your quota is a possibility, you can take some extra steps to ensure both that your software understands this limit, and that if your software reaches the limit, it can queue additional API calls and complete its work the next day.
The first step is to begin recording your API call usage. Probably
the best way to do this is by adding a counter to the call_api subroutine in the
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.