Connect Countdown API to your AI agent
Countdown API provides real-time eBay product data, including product details, customer reviews, seller feedback, and search results, enabling businesses and developers to access comprehensive eBay marketplace information.
We set up the connection using your own Countdown API account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.
Actions
What your agent can do in Countdown API
Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around Countdown API could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.
- Clear Collection Requests Clears (removes) all pending requests from a collection. Use this to reset a collection before adding new requests, or to cancel all queued requests. The collection must be in 'idle' status. Returns the updated collecti…
- Create a new collection Tool to create a new collection. Use when you need to batch and orchestrate multiple requests on a schedule.
- Get Collection Tool to retrieve details for a single collection by ID. Use when you need collection metadata and counts for a given collection ID.
- List Collections Tool to list all collections for the authenticated account. Use when you need to retrieve paginated collections with filtering, sorting, and timing constraints.
- Start Collection Start processing a collection's queued requests on the Countdown API. Use this tool to manually trigger a collection to begin executing its requests. The collection must have at least one request added to it before it c…
- Update an existing collection Update an existing collection's settings. Use this to modify collection properties like name, schedule, priority, notification settings, or enabled status. The collection_id must be obtained from list_collections or cre…
- eBay Autocomplete Tool to fetch eBay autocomplete suggestions. Use when needing search-term-based suggestions from Countdown API.
- Create Collection Request Tool to create new requests within a collection for bulk eBay data retrieval. Use when you need to add search, product, reviews, or other eBay data queries to a collection that will be executed on schedule. Collections…
- Create Destination Creates a cloud storage destination where batch result sets will be automatically uploaded. Supports Amazon S3, S3-compatible services (MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces), Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, an…
- Delete Collection Tool to delete a collection and its configuration by ID. Use when you need to remove an existing, non-running collection.
- Delete Destination Tool to delete a destination by ID. Use when you need to remove an existing destination.
- Delete Single Request Delete a specific request from a Countdown API collection by its ID. Use this to remove individual requests that are no longer needed. The collection must not be running when deleting requests.
- List Destinations Tool to list all destinations configured for the account. Use when you need to inspect or paginate through configured destinations.
- Find Collection Requests Tool to find requests in a collection by custom_id or search query. Use when you need to search for specific requests within a collection using either an exact custom_id match or a text search query.
- Get Account Information Tool to retrieve account usage and current platform status. Use when needing to check plan, usage, and quota details for the authenticated user.
- List Error Logs Tool to list error logs from collection executions. Returns recent errors encountered during request processing with details about failed requests and their causes.
- Export Requests CSV Export all requests from a collection as downloadable CSV files. Returns URLs to CSV files containing the request data. Use this tool when you need to bulk export or download collection request data in CSV format. The r…
- Export Requests as JSON Tool to download all requests in a collection as JSON. Use when you need to export the entire request history for a collection.
- Update Single Request Tool to modify parameters of an existing request in a collection. Use when the collection is not running and you need to update eBay Product Data API parameters.
- Get Result Set Tool to retrieve a collection run's result set payload. Use after a collection run completes to fetch metadata and download links.
- List Result Sets Tool to list result sets produced by a collection. Use when you need to retrieve all summary status of result sets generated by a collection within the 14-day retention window.
- Resend Result Set Webhook Resend the webhook notification for a collection's result set. Use this tool to retry webhook delivery when the original webhook POST failed or timed out. The collection must have a notification_webhook URL configured (…
- Stop All Collections Tool to stop all collections. Use when you need to halt any running or queued collections after reviewing operations.
- Stop Collection Tool to stop (pause) a single collection’s processing by ID. Use when you need to halt a running or queued collection after confirming the target collection ID.
- Update Destination Tool to update a destination's configuration by ID. Use after creating or retrieving a destination to modify its settings.
Setup
How we connect it
- 1
Connect your account
You create a key in Countdown API, a key you create and control, and paste it in once. It lives in a secrets store on your server, not with us.
- 2
Set the guardrails
Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.
- 3
We keep it running
Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.
FAQ
Countdown API questions, answered.
With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions Countdown API's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.
Ready to put Countdown API to work?
Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.
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