Making HTTP requests from Python to Shopify

Introduction

This guide provides a sampling of how to make HTTP requests from Python to Shopify.

Prerequesites

1. A Shopify store
2. An app with its credentials

Disclaimer

In this tutorial, you will see urls like this: https://apikey:password@storeaddress.myshopify.com/admin/products.json
Keep in mind that, you have to replace apikey and password with the credentials of your app. In addition to that, storeaddress must be replaced by your store address name.

How to do it

1. Install requests library

  $ pip install requests

2. Import requests library (app.py)

import requests

3. Make a post request: create a product

  def create_product():

      payload = {
        "product": {
          "title": "product for testing",
          "body_html": "product for testing body",
        }
      }

      headers = {"Accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

      r = requests.post("https://apikey:password@storeaddress.myshopify.com/admin/products.json", json=payload,  headers=headers)

      print(r.json())

4. Make a get request: retrieve all products

  def get_all_products():

      r = requests.get(
      "https://apikey:password@storeaddress.myshopify.com/admin/products.json")

      print(r.json()['products'][0]['vendor'])

5. Make a get request: retrieve a product by id

  def get_specific_product():

      r = requests.get(
      "https://apikey:password@storeaddress.myshopify.com/admin/products/934425690169.json")

      print(r.json())

6. Make a put request: update a product

  def update_product():

      payload = {
        "product": {
          "title": "product for testing updated",
          "body_html": "product for testing body updated",
        }
      }

      headers = {"Accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

      r = requests.put("https://apikey:password@storeaddress.myshopify.com/admin/products/934425690169.json", json=payload,  headers=headers)

      print(r.json())

7. Make a delete request: delete a product

  def delete_product():

      r = requests.delete(
    "https://apikey:password@storeaddress.myshopify.com/admin/products/934425690169.json")

      print(r.status_code)

Done !

Get the full code source on github .
Take a look at the Shopify REST Admin API reference. It is meant to help you customise your json data.