Method: FindPopularItems

Description

Finds most popular items for a given category or keyword.

Action

Style

Document

Input (Literal)

The input of this method is the document element ns:FindPopularItemsRequest of type having the structure defined by the following table.

Element	Type	Occurs	Description
		1..1
ns:MessageID	xs:string	0..1	If you pass a value in MessageID in a request, we'll return the same value in CorrelationID in the response.
any		0..*
ns:CategoryID	xs:string	0..*	Specify CategoryID to restrict your query to a specific category.
ns:QueryKeywords	xs:string	0..1	A query that specifies a string for searching titles of items on eBay.
ns:CategoryIDExclude	xs:string	0..*	Specify this value if you want search results to be filtered so that the popular items returned do not include items that belong to a specific category.
ns:MaxEntries	xs:int	0..1	Specifies the maximum number of entries to return in a single call.

Output (Literal)

The output of this method is the document element ns:FindPopularItemsResponse of type having the structure defined by the following table.

Element	Type	Occurs	Description
		1..1
ns:Timestamp	xs:dateTime	0..1	This value represents the date and time when eBay processed the request.
ns:Ack	ns:AckCodeType	0..1	Indicates whether the call was successfully processed by eBay.
ns:Errors	ns:ErrorType	0..*	A list of application-level errors or warnings (if any) that were raised when eBay processed the request.
ns:Build	xs:string	0..1	This refers to the particular software build that eBay used when processing the request and generating the response.
ns:Version	xs:string	0..1	The release version that eBay used to process the request.
ns:CorrelationID	xs:string	0..1	If you pass a value in MessageID in a request, we will return the same value in CorrelationID in the response.
any		0..*
ns:ItemArray	ns:SimpleItemArrayType	0..1	A list of active items that were listed with the requested product.

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