Notifications
Upcoming Changes
Site Outage - 22 May 2024
Trade Me will be unavailable between 1:00 am and 6:00 am on Saturday 22 May 2024 for scheduled maintenance. All auctions that are due to close between 1:00 am and 6:00 am will be extended by 6 hours.
Changes to Photo ID
We're updating our systems to handle 64-bit integers for photo IDs, increasing the number of possible photos from 2,147,483,647 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, and giving ourselves plenty of room to grow.
What this means for integrating with Trade Me
You should plan to check your apps to ensure they are compatible with 64-bit integers before the changeover happens.
- On Wednesday 24th July all new photo IDs will be 64-bit values.
- On Tuesday 23rd April, we reseeded our Sandbox site with 64-bit photo IDs.
- The JSON and XML responses from endpoints will not change, however photo ID values returned after the changeover will become 64-bit.
What you should do now
- Check that your systems are good to receive 64-bit photo IDs from Trade Me and if necessary plan to make any changes required to accept them.
- Plan to test your changes against Sandbox before the changeover.
Recent Changes
- 23rd April 2024 | Sandbox Photo ID Reseed Trade Me Photo IDs were reseeded in our Sandbox Environment to increase them from 32-bit to 64-bit integers.
- 17 January | Sandbox Member Ledger ID Reseed Trade Me Member Ledger IDs were reseeded in our Sandbox Environment to increase them from 32-bit to 64-bit integers.
- 14 May | Site Outage Trade Me Listing IDs were reseeded from 32-bit to 64-bit values; new listing IDs start from 2^31 (2147483648). Any software that assumes that Trade Me listing IDs are signed 32-bit values will need to be updated.
- 2 March | Site Outage Trade Me was unavailable between 2:00 am and 5:00 am on Saturday 2 March 2019 for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. All auctions that are due to close between 2:00 am and 5:00 am were extended by 4 hours.
- 1 February | Sandbox Listing ID Reseed Trade Me Listing IDs were reseeded in our Sandbox Environment to increase them from 32-bit to 64-bit integers on Friday 1 February. After this change all new Listing IDs generated were in the 64-bit space.
- 11 December 2018 | Site Outage Trade Me was unavailable between 3:00 am and 6:00 am on Tuesday 11 December 2018 for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. All auctions that were due to close between 3:00 am and 6:00 am were extended by 4 hours.
- 6 October 2018 | Site Outage Trade Me was unavailable between 4:00 am and 6:00 am on Tuesday 10 October 2018 for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. All auctions that were due to close between 3:00 am and 6:00 am were extended by 3 hours.
- 10 October 2018 | Site Outage Trade Me was unavailable between 3:00 am and 6:00 am on Wednesday 10 October 2018 for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. All auctions that were due to close between 3:00 am and 6:00 am were extended by 4 hours.
- 25 September 2018 | Site Outage Trade Me was unavailable between 5:00 am and 6:00 am on Tuesday 25 September 2018 for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. All auctions that were due to close between 5:00 am and 6:00 am were extended by 2 hours.
- TLS Support Changes
- 2017 Firearms Category Changes
- 2016 Callback Changes
About our upcoming changes
We're always working to add new features to the API, as well as fix bugs, keeping our security up to date, and make sure we're maintaining our regulatory compliance.
Trade Me functionality is updated multiple times per day, and if all goes according to plan you won't notice (as long as you've read our Versioning notes), but sometimes we need to break things to make things better.
When we have a breaking change coming up we will post it here, and we will email every member who has registered an API Application in production. See Registering an Application for more tips on account management.
We aim to give a decent amount of notice for changes to give time for development teams to test changes, however for Zero-day exploits or other critical issues we may have to make changes more rapidly.
If you have any questions about our changes, past or present, please get in touch with us at api@trademe.co.nz