I have searched for tons of threads here in Stack Overflow but I can't seem to find the fitting or direct answers.
So we would like to fetch products from API of external (outside Shopify) source then upload them to Shopify. Is there a way to do this without creating an app? This external source API provides already data in Shopify format.
Thanks!
In the Shopify store you wish to add these products to, you can create an access token with permission to create products. Using that token, you are free to make API calls to the Shopify store, with the data representing products, to create products in the Shopify store. Very simple pattern. Takes about 30 seconds of your time to create the access token in the Shopify store admin.
No you have to create APP for it.
As per latest updates from Shopify, you need to create "Custom App" atleast to get the Access Tokens and API keys, because Shopify has depreciated "Private apps" They work like Private apps, as those apps are specific to only one store, but these apps can give you all the needed permission to Create and Fetch Products.
You can create new apps from admin panel here: [YourStoreDomain]/admin/settings/apps/development
Documentations realated to it is: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/apps/custom-apps
From Shopify: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/apps/private-apps
Note Private apps are deprecated and can't be created as of January
2022. Ask your app developer to create a custom app. Like private apps, custom apps are built exclusively for your shop, but they don't
require open API access to your store or access to your Shopify admin.
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I have developed a Shopify app, I wonder if we can perform the following functionality :
when a customer has logged in to his account on the store I want to also log him into my app, in another word I want to make a customer account is the same as his account on my app.
One thing you know. A customer logged into a Shopify store has a visible ID to Javascript. You could thus use an App Proxy to securely pass back their ID to your App. Using that ID, you can offer functionality to that customer, in your App. As long as you restrict access to the Proxy, you'd be A-Ok security wise.
If you wanted to allow access to the App without Proxy calls, you'll have to put into place your own security, which as we know from experience, will likely be weak and or a calamity. Most people should never roll their own security patterns. If they login to the App, without Shopify Plus Multipass, you cannot log them into Shopify. So you have no other options AFAIK.
I am trying to make a plan to update my client's shopify stores by building Shopify app or using external library. Basically, I want to provide my clients with some convenience by automating the inventory update, order process and extra stuff.
For now, I have only two scenarios.
Whenever my wholesale inventory changes, i want to update my client's shopify product list to be updated (quantity, price and product description) accordingly.
Whenever my client(shopify store owner) receives an order from his/her customer, i want the order information to be automatically transferred to my server.
If possible, I want my clients to be able to integrate with my application without any tech knowledge. I have looked into the Shopify app (public/private) and some external API(java), because I am a java developer.
I checked Shopify Java library which requires api key and password to be able to access shopify owner's store for product/order access, but I am not sure how user-friendly this approach is in terms of Shopify owner's side.
For Shopify public app, I am not familiar with it, so I am not sure how much I can do with it.
Could somebody provide some details about pros/cons about these approaches?
Thanks.
All you need to know is that with Shopify, you can connect to their shop using standard HTTPS. Even better, it's all GraphQL now. As for credentials, Shopify is fully modern and offers you two methods of getting credentials.
Your merchant client can create credentials with permissions right inside their Shopify Admin -> Apps. They give you the keys, you're in business
You get them (or you) to simply click install your App running at some HTTPS address, and you use oAuth to get the credentials.
Either way, makes no difference to the actual code you write to interact with their shop and deal with inventory, sales etc. You do not need to make your App public in the sense of App store, so you can use your partner dashboard to create an App and oAuth install, or like I said, use the private App way.
i want to develop a chrome extension to see stats for any store which develop in shopify, can i access any store products without API-Key and Password in shopify?
No, you cant access products json without using api-key or permanent token of the store.
But still you want to access the product details you atleast needs the handler of the product.
Lets say your store is "abc.myshopify.com" and handler of your product is "xyz", then you can product json of xyz by HTTP GET call in following url
https://www.abc.myshopify.com/products/xyz.json
in general
https://www.[storename]/products/[product-handle].json
You could try using the Shopify StoreFront API.
It allows to get information of your shop from from your own website or custom app. Although it doesn't need a API Password, it needs a Api Key that doesn't need to be a secret.
The documentation says this (the first point is the important):
Using the Storefront API, you can:
Fetch data about a single product or a collection of products to
display on any website or device.
Create unique checkout experiences
with full control over the shopping cart.
Create new customers or
modify existing ones, including address information.
Allow customers
to select unique product options.
There is no way shopify will provide store details (product list) without api authentication.
For your requirement, I would suggest to create a shopify app which will sync all product details to your storage and you can access data from there.
I'm a beginner Shopify developer. I would like to create my application for Shopify store (not private). I want to show api_key and secret_key after installation plugin by merchant. I viewed a lot of tutorials and all of them looks like get this values from nothing. That's why I want to know the answer on 1 question:
1) Is it possible to retrieve from Shopify API api_key and secret_key for application?
I'll be very appreciate, if someone helps me with this issue.
You cannot retrieve your App's App key and Secret through a Shopify API call.
Those keys are used for authorizing your app to be able to gain API access on a particular shop. They are something particular to your app and you don't need an API call for it.
You can find those keys on your App listing on your Shopify Partner account.
This is confirmed by the Shopify API documentation where it doesn't mention you can do this.
I want my customers to be able to login to my Shopify store via my existing website account system.
This means that if they've already entered their address on my website, they don't need to enter it again in Shopify. (And if I can also track my users' shopping behaviour that would be a bonus.)
I found this related discussion on the Shopify forums (about Facebook login), but with no clear answer:
https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/shopify-apis-and-technology/t/login-with-facebook-114126
Is it possible to use oAuth (or some other method) to enable this kind of functionality in Shopify?
The official Shopify method to login to your store from your third-party website is to use Multipass, however this requires a Shopify Plus account (starting at $995/month).
Shopify does provide some support for oAuth, however it appears to be mainly used for shop-owners adding third-party apps into their stores, not for creating customer accounts.
There are various apps available for social login functionality. While these won't exactly provide the functionality you need, they must have a found a way of creating new user accounts, so perhaps they can hint at a possible solution for this.
See https://apps.shopify.com/search/query?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=log+in