[Purchase] Buy Items Using Market Hashname

By passing marketHashName and maxPrice to buy the lowest-priced item within your range.

Rate limit is 10 requests per second.

The seller has 12 hours to ship the item, while the buyer can cancel orders that remain in [Waiting for Seller to Confirm Shipment] status after 1 hour.

The buyer has 24 hours to receive items.

Curl request

$ curl 'https://www.skindeer.com/market/open_api/request/?action=merchant.buy.normal.buy' -i -X POST \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{
  "apiKey":"955a2f4e8f121cdda99ae97ae9728d2d",
  "marketHashName" : "★ StatTrak™ M9 Bayonet | Doppler (Factory New)",
  "maxPrice" : "3.00",
  "externalTradeNo" : "Skindeer423456789",
  "phase":"p1",
  "steamTradeUrl" : "https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=1507345320&token=_giajW08",
  "delivery": "Bot"
}'

HTTP request

POST /market/open_api/request/?action=merchant.buy.normal.buy HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 262
Host: localhost:8080

{
  "apiKey":"955a2f4e8f121cdda99ae97ae9728d2d",
  "marketHashName" : "★ StatTrak™ M9 Bayonet | Doppler (Factory New)",
  "maxPrice" : "3.00",
  "externalTradeNo" : "Skindeer423456789",
  "phase":"p1",
  "steamTradeUrl" : "https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=1507345320&token=_giajW08",
  "delivery": "Bot"
}

Request body

{
  "apiKey":"955a2f4e8f121cdda99ae97ae9728d2d",
  "marketHashName" : "M4A4 | Evil Daimyo (Minimal Wear)",
  "maxPrice" : "3.00",
  "externalTradeNo" : "Skindeer423456789",
  "phase":"p1",
  "steamTradeUrl" : "https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=1507345320&token=_giajW08",
  "delivery": "Bot"
}

Table 4. Request fields

Path	Type	Description
marketHashName	String	Steam market item hash name. One must be filled in with itemId.
maxPrice	String	Maximum purchase Price (US $).
steamTradeUrl	String	The recipient’s steam trade link.
externalTradeNo	String	Third party merchant order number，Maximum length 64
apiKey	String	api key
phase	String	[optional], Doppler: p1, p2, p3, p4, ruby, sapphire, blackpearl, emerald. Please use lowercase letters for the phase type in your request.
delivery	string	[optional], valid values are "P2P"(manual delivery) or "Bot"(automatic delivery). Please use exactly the same input as provided, for unrecognized values will be ignored.

HTTP response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 181

{
    "code": 0,
    "message": "SUCCESS",
    "data": {
        "orderId": "2020241009113451521796",
        "externalTradeNo": "31"
    }
}

Table 5. Response fields

Path	Type	Description
code	Number	Response code.
message	String	Response message
data	Object	Actual data.
data.orderId	String	Order id.
data.externalTradeNo	String	Third party merchant order number.