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Receive notifications

Some events occur on MercadoLibre's side and notifications are the only way to become aware of them. Receiving notifications enables you to have a real-time feed of the changes that occur on the different resources of our API. For example, if you listed an item that was then paused, if someone asked a question, if they bought an item, or even if they paid it and/or requested shipment. An efficient way with no need to continuously query our API!

If you want to start receiving notifications you need to login and access to My Applications, where you created your application at first, edit details and specific the topics that you will receive. If you haven't created your app yet, you can do it now.

Notifications Callback URL : configure the public URL of your domain where you want to receive notifications for the different topics. For example: “http://myshoes-app.com/callbacks”.

Topics: select among different topics to receive their notifications.

Nota:

- Topics created_orders, payments and messaging are not user for real state, vehicles and services.
- Notifications have UTC time zone.

Available topics

items: to get notified of any changes on an item you have published.

questions: to get notified of all questions asked or answered.

payments: to get notified when a payment is created on an order, or when its status changes.

messages: the topic will inform the subscriber of new messages created with his/her user_id as receiver.

orders_v2: you will receive notifications after the creation and changes to any of confirmed sales (recommended).

shipments: you will receive notifications after the creation and shipping changes to your confirmed sales.

orders feedback: you will receive notifications from the creation and changes made in feedbacks of your confirmed sales.

quotations: you will receive notifications related to listing quotations (applicable to real estate integration only in Mercado Libre Chile)

invoices: you will receive notifications related to invoices (sales receipts) generated via Mercado Libre automatic billing applicable if working with Mercado Envíos Full biller only. It is available only in Brazil

claims: you will receive notifications related to sales claims (work with claims).

item competition: You will receive notifications when competing catalog posts change status. Both from competitor to winner and vice versa.

public candidates: you will receive notifications each time an item is invited to participate in a promotion.

public offers: you will receive notifications when an offer on an item is created or changes status.

flex-handshakes: You will receive notifications when packages are transferred between carriers and when it is scanned for the first time (when shipped is marked).

stock_locations: You will receive notifications when the stock_locations of the user_product are modified, either by increasing or decreasing the quantity field.

Note:

You should use the /price_to_win resource to check the item's condition and take the necessary actions to win the product page.

catalog_suggestions: You will receive notifications about the status changes of product suggestions for our catalog - Brand Central.

leads credits: you will receive notifications related to approved or rejected credits in Mercado Libre (applies to vehicles, and real estate).

stock fulfillment: you will receive notifications with the detail of a particular operation executed on the stock that the seller has stored in the FBM warehouses.

best price eligible: you will receive notifications when a new promotion is created, the amount of the target price is modified and when an item that is competing is no longer the winner of the special highlight in the catalog.

items_prices: you will receive notifications of the item_id each time the price is created, updated or deleted.

What events trigger notifications?

Bear in mind that any change to any topic of the Json will trigger the relevant notifications. You should always see the notifications and immediately query the relevant resource to check whether there is a change with its application. These changes may come from other sources, such as action via front, Seller Central, or other applications, etc.

Important Considerations

Importante:

Update your integration to return an HTTP 200 within 500 milliseconds of receiving the notification and prevent us from deactivating the topics of your notifications. Otherwise, you will have to subscribe again to the topics.

We will send a POST to the callback URL and your application must confirm the correct reception using an HTTP 200. Otherwise, the message will be considered as "not received" and there will be a new attempt to send it.
The messages will be sent and the sending attempts will be made within a 1 hour interval. After this period, messages that were not accepted will be excluded.
You may get a large number of notifications, it is advisable to work with rows, in which the server should immediately confirm notification receipt (HTTP 200) and query the topic in the API to avoid new notification attempts and duplicated notifications.
Some events are not visible for integrators that trigger notifications.

Get the details

After receiving a notification of one topic, you’ll need to make a GET to the resource to get the details and then, if you stored the previous Json, compare both.

items

Notification response:

{
"_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",      
"resource": "/items/MLA686791111",
   "user_id": 123456789,
   "topic": "items",
   "application_id": 2069392825111111,
   "attempts": 1,
   "sent": "2017-10-09T13:44:33.006Z",
   "received": "2017-10-09T13:44:32.984Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the items resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/items/$ITEM_ID

orders

Notification response:

{
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
 "resource": "/orders/1499111111",
   "user_id": 123456789,
   "topic": "orders",
   "application_id": 2069392825111111,
   "attempts": 1,
   "sent": "2017-10-09T13:58:23.347Z",
   "received": "2017-10-09T13:58:23.329Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the orders resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/orders/$ORDER_ID

created_orders

Notification response:

{
"_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",      
"resource": "/orders/1499111111",
   "user_id": 123456789,
   "topic": "created_orders",
   "application_id": 2069392825111111,
   "attempts": 1,
   "sent": "2017-10-09T13:49:46.519Z",
   "received": "2017-10-09T13:49:46.531Z"
}

questions

Notification response:

{
"_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",      
"resource": "/questions/5036111111",
   "user_id": "123456789",
   "topic": "questions",
   "application_id": 2069392825111111,
   "attempts": 1,
   "sent": "2017-10-09T13:51:05.464Z",
   "received": "2017-10-09T13:51:05.438Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the questions resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/questions/$QUESTION_ID

payments

Notification response:

{
"_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",      
"resource": "/collections/3043111111",
   "user_id": 123456789,
   "topic": "payments",
   "application_id": 2069392825111111,
   "attempts": 1,
   "sent": "2017-10-09T13:58:22.081Z",
   "received": "2017-10-09T13:58:22.061Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the questions resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/$RESOURCE

messages

Notification response:

<{
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource": "3f6da1e35ac84f70a24af7360d24c7bc",
  "user_id": "268897726",
  "topic": "messages",
  "application_id": 2219612378080430,
  "attempts": 1,
  "sent": "2017-08-17T12:59:44.164Z",
  "received": "2017-08-17T12:59:44.131Z"
 }

This information will help you make a GET to the messages resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/$RESOURCE

orders_v2

Notification response:

{
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource":"/orders/2195160686",
  "user_id": 468424240,
  "topic":"orders_v2",
  "application_id": 5503910054141466,
  "attempts":1,
  "sent":"2019-10-30T16:19:20.129Z",
  "received":"2019-10-30T16:19:20.106Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the messages resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/orders/$ORDER_ID

quotations

Notification response:

{
    "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
    "resource":"/quotations/5013267",
    "user_id": 484630370,
    "topic":"quotations",
    "application_id": 5503910054141466,
    "attempts":1,
    "sent":"2019-10-30T14:04:14.584Z",
    "received":"2019-10-30T14:04:14.553Z"
}

Note:

Notifications regarding quotes are only available for Mercado Libre Chile.

This information will help you make a GET to the orders resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/quotations/$QUOTATION_ID?caller.type=seller

Where caller.type is to identify who is the generator of the action. It can be a seller or a user. Generally, for launch applications it will be that of the seller.

invoices

Notification response:

{
    "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
    "resource": "/users/123456789/invoices/$INVOICE_ID",
    "user_id": 123456789,
    "topic": "invoices",
    "application_id": 5503910054141466,
    "attempts": 1,
    "sent": "2018-03-21T20:51:11.906Z",
    "received": "2018-03-21T20:51:11.884Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the /invoices resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/$RESOURCE

claims

Notification response:

{
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource":"/v1/claims/1041417027",
  "user_id":"465432224",
  "topic":"claims",
  "application_id":5503910054141466,
  "attempts":1,
  "sent":"2019-10-29T17:46:24.606Z",
  "received":"2019-10-29T17:46:24.616Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the /claims resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/$RESOURCE

item competition

Important:

This topic is available in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

Notification:

{
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource":"/items/ITEM_ID/price_to_win",
  "user_id":"123456789",
  "topic":"catalog_item_competition_status",
  "application_id":4806348059754779,
  "attempts":1,
  "sent":"2020-03-03T18:57:54.824Z",
  "received":"2020-03-03T18:57:54.819Z"
}

This information will help you make a GET to the /price_to_win resource.

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/items/$ITEM_ID/price_to_win

catalog suggestions

Notification:

{

  "topic": "catalog_suggestions",
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource": "/catalog_suggestions/MLA123456",
  "user_id": 123456,
  "application_id": 5775857146034005,
  "attempts": 1,
  "recieved": "2021-12-05T17:13:53.617074685Z",
  "sent": "2021-12-05T19:22:31.579985295Z"
}

With this information, you can make a GET to the /catalog_suggestion resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/catalog_suggestions/$SUGGESTION_ID
in

Leads credits

Notification:

{
  "_id": "15b0e685-65be-40b6-8d23-alkdjf6465a4f",
  "topic": "leads-credits",
  "resource": "/vis/loan/66e93589-2d10-11ed-ae7f-0aa30fafa621",
  "user_id": 123456789,
  "application_id": 874563217565897,
  "sent": "2022-09-13T21:03:24.581Z",
  "attempts": 2,
  "received": "2022-09-13T21:02:22.735Z"
}

With this information, you will be able to perform a GET to the resource of /vis/loans:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/vis/loans/$CREDIT_ID?seller_id=$SELLER_ID

in

stock fulfillment

Important:

This topic is available in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia where there is fulfillment.

Notification:

{
   "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
   "resource":"/stock/fulfillment/operations/9876",
   "user_id":1234,
   "topic":"fbm_stock_operations",
   "application_id":12341234,
   "attempts":1,
   "sent":"2017-10-09T13:58:23.347Z",
   "received":"2017-10-09T13:58:23.329Z"
}

With this information, you can make a GET to the /stock/fulfillment/operations resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/$RESOURCE

items_prices

Notification:

{
   "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",
   "resource": "/items/MLA686791111",
   "user_id": 123456789,
   "topic": "items",
   "application_id": 2069392825111111,
   "attempts": 1,
   "sent": "2023-02-06T13:44:33.006Z",
   "received": "2023-02-06T13:44:32.984Z"
}

With this information, you can make a GET to the /prices resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/items/$ITEM_ID/prices

public candidates

Notification:

{
  "topic": "public_candidates",
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource": "/seller-promotions/candidates/CANDIDATE-MLA1111111111-11111111",
  "user_id": 2222222,
  "application_id": 5111111111111,
  "attempts": 1,
  "recieved": "2021-12-23T17:13:53.617074685Z",
  "sent": "2021-12-23T19:22:31.579985295Z"
}

With this information you can perform a GET on the /seller-promotions/candidates resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN'  https://api.mercadolibre.com/seller-promotions/candidates/$CANDIDATE_ID

public offers

Notification:

{
  "topic": "public_offers",
  "_id":"f9f08571-1f65-4c46-9e0a-c0f43faas1557e",   
  "resource": "/seller-promotions/offers/1234567",
  "user_id": 2222222,
  "application_id": 5111111111111,
  "attempts": 1,
  "recieved": "2022-01-20T17:13:53.617074685Z",
  "sent": "2022-01-20T19:22:31.579985295Z"
}

With this information you can perform a GET to the next resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/flex/sites/$SITE_ID/shipments/$SHIPMENT_ID/assignment/v1

flex carriers

Notification:

{
"_id": "495cac10-8496-45f8-a6f5-8bff0a948597",
"topic": "flex-handshakes",
"resource": "/flex/sites/MLA/shipments/407323124706/assignment/v1",
"user_id": 123456789,
"application_id": 213123389095511,
"sent": "2022-09-13T21:06:13.632Z",
"attempts": 4,
"received": "2022-09-13T20:59:13.911Z"
}

Request:

With this information you can perform a GET to the next resource:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/flex/sites/$SITE_ID/shipments/$SHIPMENT_ID/assignment/v1

stock_locations

Notification:

{
"_id": "495cac10-8496-45f8-a6f5-8bff0a948597",
"topic": "stock-location",
"resource": "/user-products/$USER_PRODUCT_ID/stock",
"user_id": 123456789,
"application_id": 213123389095511,
"sent": "2022-09-13T21:06:13.632Z",
"attempts": 4,
"received": "2022-09-13T20:59:13.911Z"
}

Request:

With this information you can perform a GET to the User product ID resource.

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/user-products/$USER_PRODUCT_ID/stock

Test your notifications

You can validate if you are receiving notices in your integration importing the following link in Postman. If your URL works well, you will be receiving code 200 status ok as an answer as shown in the following image.

Feed historical

Check the history of lost notifications for these topics by making a GET to the following endpoint:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/missed_feeds?app_id=$APP_ID

Note:

The response will contain information on the notifications that after the eighth retry (1 hour), have not received a http code 200, that is, we will consider the notification as lost.

If you are using some type of filter in your application, from Mercado Libre we will generate notifications with the following IP addresses:
- 54.88.218.97
- 18.215.140.160
- 18.213.114.129
- 18.206.34.84

Example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/missed_feeds?app_id=3486171129139063

Response:

{
   "messages": [
       {
           "_id": "5da8a1b24be30a49eb66c52a",
           "resource": "a35cf79864a845ca9a3bf6aee59bb4d7",
           "user_id": "465432224",
           "topic": "messages",
           "application_id": 3486171129139063,
           "attempts": 1,
           "sent": "2019-10-17T17:15:30.279Z",
           "received": "2019-10-17T17:15:30.259Z",
           "request": {
               "url": "https://YOUR_URL",
               "headers": {
                   "accept": "application/json",
                   "content-type": "application/json",
                   "content-length": 207
               },
               "data": "{\"resource\":\"a35cf79864a845ca9a3bf6aee59bb4d7\",\"user_id\":\"465432224\",\"topic\":\"messages\",\"application_id\":3486171129139063,\"attempts\":1,\"sent\":\"2019-10-17T17:15:30.279Z\",\"received\":\"2019-10-17T17:15:30.259Z\"}"
           },
           "response": {
               "req_time": 260,
               "http_code": 400,
               "body": "[object Object]",
               "headers": {
                   "date": "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:15:30 GMT",
                   "content-length": "141",
                   "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
                   "connection": "close"
               }
           }
       },
       {
           "_id": "5da87eea5b35b865994cfd7d",
           "resource": "/items/MLA820048955",
           "user_id": 468424240,
           "topic": "items",
           "application_id": 3486171129139063,
           "attempts": 1,
           "sent": "2019-10-17T14:47:06.414Z",
           "received": "2019-10-17T14:47:06.375Z",
           "request": {
               "url": "https://YOUR_URL",
               "headers": {
                   "accept": "application/json",
                   "content-type": "application/json",
                   "content-length": 189
               },
               "data": "{\"resource\":\"/items/MLA820048955\",\"user_id\":468424240,\"topic\":\"items\",\"application_id\":3486171129139063,\"attempts\":1,\"sent\":\"2019-10-17T14:47:06.414Z\",\"received\":\"2019-10-17T14:47:06.375Z\"}"
           },
           "response": {
               "req_time": 498,
               "http_code": 200,
               "body": "[object Object]",
               "headers": {
                   "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                   "date": "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:47:06 GMT",
                   "content-length": "190",
                   "connection": "close"
               }
           }
       }

}

Resource fields

resource: full resource, with topic by which the notification was generated.

user_id: user who generated it.

topic: reference issue of the notification.

request: query made to the URL of notifications, along with their respective url, header and data.

response: response from the server receiving the notification.

http_code: HTTP code returned by that server, so that it does not retry, you must send a 200.

Filter by topic

There is the possibility of filtering by topic, it is very useful for when you have a large number of notifications.

Call:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/missed_feeds?app_id=$APP_ID&topic=$TOPIC

Example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/missed_feeds?app_id=3486171129139063&topic=payments

Note:

Bear in mind that 10 notices will be displayed by default, but you can use LIMIT and OFFSET to change the number that you want to receive, as shown below:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/missed_feeds?app_id=$APP_ID&offset=1&limit=5

Receive notifications

Subscribe to notifications

Available topics

What events trigger notifications?

Important Considerations

Get the details

items

orders

created_orders

questions

payments

messages

orders_v2

quotations

invoices

claims

item competition

catalog suggestions

Leads credits

stock fulfillment

items_prices

public candidates

public offers

flex carriers

stock_locations

Test your notifications

Feed historical

Resource fields

Filter by topic