Leave Feedback with the API
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.pl item other_user
positive '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
[Hack
#102] , you’ll need to set up two users and a handful of auctions. If the seller has a feedback rating of less than 10, ...
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