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Feedback

Overview

Etsy allows buyers and sellers to leave feedback for one another about a specific transaction. Each feedback record contains a short message from the buyer or seller, a value of -1, 0 or 1, and information about the item that was purchased.

Each feedback record has a buyer, a seller, an author, and a subject. Because feedback is a two-way process, each transaction on Etsy can have up to two feedback records, one left by a buyer in reference to a seller, and one left by a seller in reference to a buyer. To determine the context of a feedback record, you will neeed to examine both the creator_user_id and seller_user_id fields to determine whether the author of the feedback was the buyer or the seller in the transaction.

Feedback and Privacy Settings

As of March 14, 2011, all purchases on Etsy are hidden from public areas. This has a direct effect on how feedback records are displayed in the API, since they contain information about a member's purchases. Certain fields of feedback records are now treated as private--this means that they can only been seen using the private API, with either the buyer or seller's OAuth credentials. If these conditions are not met, the fields will be missing from feedback responses.

The context of the API request (whether you are requesting the buyer's or the seller's feedback) has an impact on which fields are considered private. In a nutshell:

  • When querying a buyer's feedback, the seller's identity and the purchased listing will be private.
  • When querying a seller's feedback, the buyer's identity will be private.

The following table gives detailed information on which feeds will be private in various contexts. "Feedback Author" refers to the member who left the feedback (either the buyer, or the seller). "Viewing Context" refers to the member whose user ID was used to query the feedback (whether we are viewing feedback for the seller, or for the buyer).

Viewing Context Feedback Author Feedback Subject Basic Fields Buyer Fields Seller Fields Purchase Fields Author Fields Subject Fields
Buyer Buyer Seller public public private private public private
Buyer Seller Buyer public public private private private public
Seller Buyer Seller public private public public private public
Seller Seller Buyer public private public public public private

This table lists which fields fall under the general headings in the table above:

Field Group
feedback_id Basic Fields
creation_tsz Basic Fields
message Basic Fields
value Basic Fields
transaction_id Purchase Fields
Transaction Purchase Fields
Listing Purchase Fields
image_feedback_id Purchase Fields
image_url_25x25 Purchase Fields
image_url_fullxfull Purchase Fields
buyer_user_id Buyer Fields
Buyer Buyer Fields
seller_user_id Seller Fields
Seller Seller Fields
creator_user_id Author Fields
Author Author Fields
target_user_id Subject Fields
Subject Subject Fields

Fields

Field Visibility Level Permission Scope Type Description
feedback_id public none int The feedback record's numeric ID.
transaction_id public/private feedback_r int The transaction's numeric ID.
creator_user_id public/private feedback_r int The numeric ID of the user who wrote this feedback. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
target_user_id public/private feedback_r int The numeric ID of the user who received this feedback. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
seller_user_id public/private feedback_r int The numeric ID of the user who was the seller in this transaction.
buyer_user_id public/private feedback_r int The numeric ID of the user who was the buyer in this transaction. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
creation_tsz public none float Creation time, in epoch seconds.
message public none string A message left by the author, explaining the feedback.
value public none int The feedback's value; 1 is positive, -1 is negative, and 0 is neutral.
image_feedback_id public/private feedback_r int The numeric ID of the feedback's image (if present). Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
image_url_25x25 public/private feedback_r string The url to a photo provided with the feedback, dimensions 25x25. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
image_url_155x125 public/private feedback_r string The url to a photo provided with the feedback, dimensions 155x125. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
image_url_fullxfull public/private feedback_r string The url to a photo provided with the feedback, dimensions fullxfull. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.

Associations

Association Visibility Level Permission Scope Type Description
Buyer public/private feedback_r User The user who who was the buyer in this transaction. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
Seller public/private feedback_r User The user who was the seller in this transaction.
Author public/private feedback_r User The user who wrote this feedback. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
Subject public/private feedback_r User The user who received this feedback. Note: This field may be absent, depending on the buyer's privacy settings.
Transaction public/private feedback_r Transaction The transaction that this feedback pertains to.
Listing public/private feedback_r Listing The listing that this feedback pertains to.

Methods

findAllUserFeedbackAsAuthor

Method Name findAllUserFeedbackAsAuthor
Synopsis Retrieves a set of Feedback objects associated to a User.
HTTP Method GET
URI /users/:user_id/feedback/as-author
Parameters
Name Required Default Type
user_id Y   user_id_or_name
limit N 25 int
offset N 0 int
page N   int
Requires OAuth N
Permission Scope none

findAllUserFeedbackAsBuyer

Method Name findAllUserFeedbackAsBuyer
Synopsis Retrieves a set of Feedback objects associated to a User.
HTTP Method GET
URI /users/:user_id/feedback/as-buyer
Parameters
Name Required Default Type
user_id Y   user_id_or_name
limit N 25 int
offset N 0 int
page N   int
Requires OAuth N
Permission Scope none

findAllUserFeedbackAsSeller

Method Name findAllUserFeedbackAsSeller
Synopsis Retrieves a set of Feedback objects associated to a User.
HTTP Method GET
URI /users/:user_id/feedback/as-seller
Parameters
Name Required Default Type
user_id Y   user_id_or_name
limit N 25 int
offset N 0 int
page N   int
Requires OAuth N
Permission Scope none

findAllUserFeedbackAsSubject

Method Name findAllUserFeedbackAsSubject
Synopsis Retrieves a set of Feedback objects associated to a User.
HTTP Method GET
URI /users/:user_id/feedback/as-subject
Parameters
Name Required Default Type
user_id Y   user_id_or_name
limit N 25 int
offset N 0 int
page N   int
Requires OAuth N
Permission Scope none

findAllFeedbackFromBuyers

Method Name findAllFeedbackFromBuyers
Synopsis Returns a set of FeedBack objects associated to a User. This is essentially the union between the findAllUserFeedbackAsBuyer and findAllUserFeedbackAsSubject methods.
HTTP Method GET
URI /users/:user_id/feedback/from-buyers
Parameters
Name Required Default Type
user_id N   user_id_or_name
limit N 25 int
offset N 0 int
page N   int
Requires OAuth N
Permission Scope none

findAllFeedbackFromSellers

Method Name findAllFeedbackFromSellers
Synopsis Returns a set of FeedBack objects associated to a User. This is essentially the union between the findAllUserFeedbackAsBuyer and findAllUserFeedbackAsSubject methods.
HTTP Method GET
URI /users/:user_id/feedback/from-sellers
Parameters
Name Required Default Type
user_id N   user_id_or_name
limit N 25 int
offset N 0 int
page N   int
Requires OAuth N
Permission Scope none

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