Everything we know about getting eBay sold listings out of eBay and into code or a spreadsheet: what the official APIs return, working tutorials, and how resellers turn sold comps into prices.
A card app tracking 8,000 cards in 5 versions needs 40,000 eBay sold lookups a day. The real cost, and three refresh strategies that cut it by 90%.
Oct 22, 2026 · 2 min
A plain-English map of the eBay API in 2026: the Developers Program, keys, which API returns what, and why none of the open ones return sold prices.
Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min
Every change that made eBay sold prices harder to get, 2020–2026: findCompletedItems, the Finding API shutdown, AI-bot rules and the sign-in wall.
Oct 22, 2026 · 2 min
Sold comps are what comparable items actually sold for, not asking prices. How to pull them on eBay, read them, and avoid comps that lie.
Oct 22, 2026 · 2 min
eBay's suggested price can mix conditions, count big lots as one item, or match the wrong variant. How to spot a bad one and check it against sold comps.
Oct 22, 2026 · 2 min
