'How can I get item views from ebay api for my seller account?

I have a seller and a developer account for the ebay api. I need to get traffic data, specifically the number of times one of my items was viewed. I think I can do this by retrieving my items with GetSellerList which should include a HitCount attribute, but it returns an empty ItemArray object even though I'm sure the seller account has items.

Here is the body of the request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetSellerListRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<RequesterCredentials>
    <eBayAuthToken>access_token</eBayAuthToken>
  </RequesterCredentials>
  <!-- Call-specific Input Fields -->
  <AdminEndedItemsOnly>False</AdminEndedItemsOnly>
  <GranularityLevel>Medium</GranularityLevel>
  <IncludeVariations>True</IncludeVariations>
  <IncludeWatchCount>True</IncludeWatchCount>
  <Pagination> PaginationType
    <EntriesPerPage>100</EntriesPerPage>
    <PageNumber>1</PageNumber>
  </Pagination>
  <Sort>1</Sort>
  <StartTimeFrom>2022-04-15T19:09:02.768Z</StartTimeFrom>
  <StartTimeTo>2022-04-21T16:09:02.768Z</StartTimeTo>
  <!-- Standard Input Fields -->
  <DetailLevel>ReturnAll</DetailLevel>
  <!-- ... more DetailLevel values allowed here ... -->
  <ErrorLanguage> string </ErrorLanguage>
  <MessageID> string </MessageID>
  <WarningLevel>Low</WarningLevel>
</GetSellerListRequest>

Here are the headers:

X-EBAY-API-APP-NAME: app_name
X-EBAY-API-CALL-NAME: GetSellerList
X-EBAY-API-REQUEST-ENCODING: XML
X-EBAY-API-SITEID: 0
X-EBAY-API-DEV-NAME: some_code
X-EBAY-API-CERT-NAME: some code
X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL: 825
Content-Type: text/xml

And the url : https://api.ebay.com/ws/api.dll

method: POST.

I can't figure out why I keep getting the following response with no items:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GetSellerListResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
    <Timestamp>2022-04-21T14:44:03.680Z</Timestamp>
    <Ack>Success</Ack>
    <CorrelationID> string </CorrelationID>
    <Version>1173</Version>
    <Build>E1173_CORE_APISELLING_19187371_R1</Build>
    <ItemArray/>
</GetSellerListResponse>

I have tried playing with the date range and the GranularityLevel, but I still get an empty ItemArray.

Any help would be much appreciated.

xmlebay-apitraffic


Solution 1:[1]

If your target is to get item view count of your item only, the easiest and best solution is to add a tracking pixel/web beacon in each listing in way to get not only the count of views but also date, time and location of viewer.

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