Agent Cooper

Agent Cooper is a minimalist, Nokogiri-based Ruby wrapper to the eBay Web Services API.

It supports the following eBay APIs:

• Finding API
• Shopping API
• Merchandising API

Usage

Set up.

    AgentCooper.configure do |config|
      config.app_id = "YOUR_EBAY_APP_ID"
    end

Initialize a request

    request = AgentCooper::Finder.new
    request = AgentCooper::Shopper.new
    request = AgentCooper::Merchandiser.new

Build request params.

    request << {
      'OPERATION-NAME' => 'getSearchKeywordsRecommendation',
      'KEYWORDS'       => 'arry potter'
    }

Get a response.

    response = request.get

Return a hash:

    response.to_hash

    returns: {'getSearchKeywordsRecommendationResponse' => {'xmnls' => 'http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services', 'ack' => 'Success', 'version' => '1.9.0', 'keywords' => 'harry potter'}}

If you need to preserve XML attributes

    response.to_hash(:preserve_attributes => true)

    returns: {'CurrentPrice' => {'__content__' => '154.99', 'CurrencyID' => 'EUR' }}

Or parse a response with Nokogiri:

    response.xml.css("Item > Title").each do |title|
      some business value
    end

    response.xml.xpath("//Item")