eBay Connector

• Starter
• Business
• Enterprise
• On-Premise
• Add-on

Overview

Etlworks eBay connector allows the fastest and easiest way to connect to real-time eBay data. The connector works just like any other database connector.

Etlworks partnered with CData to provide access to eBay using industry-standard JDBC protocol. Read about CData eBay JDBC connector.

When to use eBay connector

Use this connector to create Flows that extract data and load data into eBay.

Prerequisites

Enable the eBay connector for your Etlworks account. Contact support@etlworks.com to enable the connector.

Create a Connection

You can create a Connection in just two steps, and they are the following:

Step 1. In the Connections window, click +, and type in ebay.

Step 2. Enter the Connection parameters:

Read how to generated personal access token.

• Dev ID: the Dev ID.
• Site ID: the Site ID.
• Client ID: the Client ID.
• Client Secret: Client Secret.
• Personal Secret: the personal access token.

Use Other Parameters to specify the Connection string options. Read about available Connection string options.

Work with eBay

eBay Data Model

The connector models entities in the eBay API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.

API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default to circumvent most of these limitations.

Read about the data model.

Stored procedures

Stored procedures are available to complement the data available from the Data Model. It may be necessary to update data available from a view using a stored procedure because the data does not provide for direct, table-like, two-way updates. In these situations, the data retrieval is done using the appropriate view or table, while the update is done by calling a stored procedure. Stored procedures take a list of parameters and return a dataset that contains the collection of tuples that constitute the response.

Read about available stored procedures in the data model.  

To call stored procure from the SQL Flow or Before/After SQL, use EXEC sp_name params=value.

Example:

EXECUTE my_proc @second = 2, @first = 1, @third = 3;

SQL Compliance

The connector supports several operations on data, including querying, deleting, modifying, and inserting.

Read about SQL Compliance.

Extract data from eBay

Extracting data from eBay is similar to extracting data from a relational database.

Here are the steps on how you can extract data from eBay:

Step 1. Create eBay Connection which will be used as a source (FROM).

Step 2. Create a destination Connection, for example, a Connection to the relational database, and if needed, a Format (Format is not needed if the destination is a database or well-known API).

Step 3. Create a Flow where the source is a database and the destination is a Connection created in step 2, for example, a relational database.

Step 4. Add a new source-to-destination transformation.

Step 5. Select the eBay Connection created in step 1 as a source Connection and select the data object you are extracting data from.

Step 6. Select TO Connection, Format (if needed), and object (for example, database table) to load data into.

Step 7. Click MAPPING and optionally enter Source query (you don't need a query if you are extracting data from the eBay data object unconditionally).

Step 8. Optionally define the per-field Mapping.

Step 9. Add more transformations if needed.

Load data in eBay

Loading data in eBay is similar to loading data into a relational database.

Here are the steps on how you can load data in eBay:

Step 1. Create a source Connection and a Format (if needed).

Step 2. Create a destination eBay Connection.

Step 3. Create a Flow where the destination is a database.

Step 4. Add new source-to-destination transformation.

Step 5. Select FROM and TO Connections and objects (also a FROM Format if needed).

Step 6. Optionally define the per-field Mapping.

Step 7. Add more transformations if needed.

Browse data in eBay

You must have eBay Connection to browse objects and run SQL queries.

Use the Etlworks Explorer to browse data and metadata in eBay as well as execute DML and SELECT queries against the eBay Connection.