---
title: "POST /bulk_update_negative_keyword"
method: POST
path: "/bulk_update_negative_keyword"
tags: ["negative_keyword"]
---

# POST /bulk_update_negative_keyword

`POST /bulk_update_negative_keyword`

<span class="tablenote"><b>Note:</b> This method is only available for select partners who have been approved for the eBay Promoted Listings Advanced (PLA) program. For information about how to request access to this program, refer to <a href="/api-docs/sell/static/marketing/pl-verify-eligibility.html#access-requests " target="_blank "> Promoted Listings Advanced Access Requests</a> in the Promoted Listings Playbook. To determine if a seller qualifies for PLA, use the <a href="/api-docs/sell/account/resources/advertising_eligibility/methods/getAdvertisingEligibility " target="_blank ">getAdvertisingEligibility</a> method in Account API.</span><br />This method updates the statuses of existing negative keywords, in bulk.<br /><br />Specify the <b>negativeKeywordId</b> and <b>negativeKeywordStatus</b> in the request body.

## Request body

- BulkUpdateNegativeKeywordRequest — A type that defines the fields for the <b>BulkUpdateNegativeKeyword</b> request.
  - `requests` UpdateNegativeKeywordIdRequest[] — An array to update the statuses of one or more existing negative keywords.
    - `negativeKeywordId` string — A unique eBay-assigned ID for a negative keyword. This keyword ID will be generated for each successfully created negative keyword.
    - `negativeKeywordStatus` string — A field that defines the status of the negative keyword. For implementation help, refer to <a href='https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/sell/marketing/types/pls:NegativeKeywordStatusEnum'>eBay API documentation</a>

## Response `200`

Success

- BulkUpdateNegativeKeywordResponse — A type that defines the fields for the <b>BulkUpdateNegativeKeyword</b> response.
  - `responses` UpdateNegativeKeywordResponse[] — A list of negative keywords that have been processed from the bulk request.
    - `errors` Error[] — A container that will be returned if there are one or more issues associated with modifying the corresponding negative keyword.
      - `category` string — The category type for this error or warning. It takes an ErrorCategory object which can have one of three values:<ul><li><code>Application</code>: Indicates an exception or error occurred in the application code or at runtime. Examples include catching an exception in a service's business logic, system failures, or request errors from a dependency.</li><li><code>Business</code>: Used when your service or a dependent service refused to continue processing on the resource because of a business rule violation such as "Seller does not ship item to Antarctica" or "Buyer ineligible to purchase an alcoholic item". Business errors are not syntactical input errors.</li><li><code>Request</code>: Used when there is anything wrong with the request, such as authentication, syntactical errors, rate limiting or missing headers, bad HTTP header values, and so on.</li></ul>
      - `domain` string — Name of the domain containing the service or application.
      - `errorId` integer — A positive integer that uniquely identifies the specific error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms.
      - `inputRefIds` string[] — Identifies specific request elements associated with the error, if any. inputRefId's response is format specific. For JSON, use <i>JSONPath</i> notation.
      - `longMessage` string — An expanded version of message that should be around 100-200 characters long, but is not required to be such.
      - `message` string — An end user and app developer friendly device agnostic message. It explains what the error or warning is, and how to fix it (in a general sense). Its value is at most 50 characters long. If applicable, the value is localized in the end user's requested locale.
      - `outputRefIds` string[] — Identifies specific response elements associated with the error, if any. Path format is the same as <code>inputRefId</code>.
      - `parameters` ErrorParameter[] — This optional complex field type contains a list of one or more context-specific <code>ErrorParameter</code> objects, with each item in the list entry being a parameter (or input field name) that caused an error condition. Each <code>ErrorParameter</code> object consists of two fields, a <code>name</code> and a <code>value</code>.
        - `name` string — Name of the entity that threw the error.
        - `value` string — A description of the error.
      - `subdomain` string — Name of the domain's subsystem or subdivision. For example, checkout is a subdomain in the buying domain.
    - `negativeKeywordId` string — A unique eBay-assigned ID for a negative keyword. This keyword ID will be generated for each successfully created negative keyword.
    - `statusCode` integer — An HTTP status code that indicates the success or failure of updating that negative keyword.

## Other responses

- `207` — Multi Status
- `400` — Bad Request
- `403` — Forbidden
- `409` — Business error
- `500` — Internal Server error

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