I’ve attempted to write an ebay posting interface to my Tap Forms Pro DB for posting items for sale off and on. I know just enough javascript to get myself in trouble. AI is sometimes a hinderence rather than a help. But it’s telling me the following. It’s recommending running a local js file because tap forms can’t access the ebay api directly?? Is it correct?
My question to claude:
can the tap forms pro script just access the ebay api directly?
No — the blocker is that eBay’s API requires an Authorization: Bearer <token> header on every request, and Tap Forms Pro’s HTTP methods can only set Content-Type. There’s no way to pass custom headers:
// These are ALL the HTTP calls Tap Forms can make:
Utils.getJsonFromUrl(url)
Utils.getTextFromUrl(url)
Utils.postJsonToUrl(json, url)
Utils.postContentToUrlWithContentType(content, url, contentType) // ← only Content-Type, nothing else
eBay also requires the OAuth token refresh call to use Authorization: Basic base64(clientId:clientSecret) — also a custom header.
The local server exists purely to add those headers. It’s a thin shim:
Tap Forms → POST http://localhost:3721/post-to-ebay (no auth needed, local only)
server.js → POST https://api.ebay.com/… (adds Authorization: Bearer <token>)
If Tap Forms ever adds a Utils.postWithHeaders(url, headers, body) method, you could go direct. Until then, the proxy is the only path.
There’s Utils.makeHTTPRequest(), but there’s Utils.postContentToUrlWithHeaders() as well.
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This reply was modified 11 hours, 1 minute ago by
Daniel Leu.
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There’s Utils.makeHTTPRequest(), but there’s Utils.postContentToUrlWithHeaders() as well.
Here’s API’s reponse:
Right, that function exists — but it only controls the Content-Type header. The third parameter is locked to content type only. You still can’t pass an Authorization: Bearer <token> header, which eBay requires on every single API call.
Here’s the gap:
// What Tap Forms lets you do:
Utils.postContentToUrlWithContentType(body, url, ‘application/json’);
// ↑ sends: Content-Type: application/json ✅
// ✗ cannot: Authorization: Bearer abc123 ❌ ← eBay blocks without this
// What eBay needs on every request:
// POST https://api.ebay.com/sell/inventory/v1/inventory_item/SKU123
// Authorization: Bearer <token> ← no way to set this in Tap Forms
// Content-Type: application/json
And even before that, getting the OAuth token in the first place requires:
// Token refresh call needs:
// Authorization: Basic base64(clientId:clientSecret) ← also a custom header
If the Tap Forms API accepted an optional headers dictionary like this, it would work:
// Hypothetical — does NOT exist in Tap Forms
Utils.postContentToUrlWithContentType(body, url, ‘application/json’, {
‘Authorization’: ‘Bearer ‘ + token
});
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