How TruffleHunt works
From guided eBay account connection to a plan-qualified deal alert.
Three steps, then you stop opening eBay.
Connect eBay. We walk you through it.
Grab free API keys from eBay's developer site with a step-by-step guide. The keys and their daily quota stay attached to your account, and TruffleHunt encrypts the credentials at rest.
- 1 account on Forager or Hunter, up to 10 on Hunter Pro
- Smart rotation and per-account routing on Hunter Pro
- Per-account quota dashboard in real time
- 01Connect keysYour eBay developer account
- 02Validate accessMarketplace and quota
- 03Ready to routeCredentials encrypted at rest
Paste an eBay search URL. We do the rest.
Any eBay search URL — including filters, item-condition codes, regional sites — becomes a TruffleHunt hunt. Add negative keywords and price ranges, plus seller blocklists on Hunter Pro. Pick a cadence within your plan — from 30 minutes on Forager to as fast as 1 minute on Hunter Pro.
- Plan-qualified cadence controls
- Negative keywords; blocked sellers on Hunter Pro
- Email on every plan; Telegram and Discord on paid plans
Your phone pings. You decide what happens next.
When a new listing matches or a tracked listing drops, TruffleHunt fires a Telegram or Discord message on paid plans with the photo, total landed cost, seller trust score, and a link that opens the listing in the eBay mobile app. Hunter Pro can check once per minute; actual alert timing also depends on eBay ingestion, quota, and a successful poll. Email is available on every plan. TruffleHunt does not bid or buy automatically.
- Hunter Pro Buy-It-Now deep links; no automatic purchase
- Trust filters (skip <95% feedback sellers)
- Quiet hours, batched digests, per-hunt snooze
- Change detectedNew listing or landed-cost drop
- TruffleHunt alertsEmail on every plan · Telegram and Discord on paid plans
- You decide and open eBayTruffleHunt does not bid or buy automatically