Leaving Feedback
Use the LeaveFeedback API call to more easily leave feedback.
The eBay API includes extensive support both for leaving feedback for other users and for retrieving comments from your own feedback profile.
Here’s a sample script used to leave feedback for
another user with whom you’ve had a transaction
(save it as leavefeedback.pl):
#!/usr/bin/perl
require 'ebay.pl';
$item_id = shift @ARGV;
$target_user = shift @ARGV;
$comment_type = shift @ARGV;
$comment = shift @ARGV;
defined($comment) && $comment_type =~ m:^(positive|negative|neutral)$:
or die "Usage: $0 item user positive/negative/neutral comment";
my $rsp = call_api({ Verb => 'LeaveFeedback',
DetailLevel => 0,
ItemId => $item_id,
TargetUser => $target_user,
CommentType => $comment_type,
Comment => $comment});
if ($rsp->{Errors}) {
print_error($rsp)
} else {
print "Status: $rsp->{LeaveFeedback}{Status}";
}You can leave feedback with this script by calling it from the command line, like this:
leavefeedback.plitemother_userpositive 'Smooth transaction'
where item is the item number of the
transaction and other_user is the user ID
of the user for whom you’re leaving feedback.
Tip
The LeaveFeedback API call follows the same rules
as does eBay.com, namely that you can leave feedback only for a user
with whom you’re involved in a transaction. When
testing this feature in the Sandbox (see [Hack #82]), you’ll need to set up two users and a handful of auctions. If the seller has a feedback rating of less than 10, however, ...