How eBay’s Buy APIs Hit $5 Billion in Gross Merchandise Bought

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We treat our APIs as first-class products that democratize access to our marketplace platform — and we share the success with our partners. We launched the developers program in November 2000, and the initial set of APIs brought a lot of value to our platform. Some of them are still heavily used and are important to our customers, but changes in the e-commerce space made it clear that it was time to revisit our portfolio to accelerate growth in the space.

We joined the OpenAPI Initiative in 2017 to make it easier and faster for developers to integrate with our APIs.

Our SDKs are open-sourced, to give developers full transparency into their integration with our APIs (and we appreciate contributions from our developer community).

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