How eBayâs Buy APIs Hit $5 Billion in Gross Merchandise Bought
At eBay, we have a large, powerful and vibrant ecosystem of third-party applications. For us, APIs are the foundation of the business-to-developer model and are instrumental in achieving business objectives and overall success. 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. That s why in 2016 we decided to completely revamp our developers program and deliver new, modern RESTful APIs.