Shopify API Library for Ruby
This library provides support for Ruby Shopify apps to access the Shopify Admin API, by making it easier to perform the following actions:
- Creating online or offline access tokens for the Admin API via OAuth
- Making requests to the REST API
- Making requests to the GraphQL API
- Registering/processing webhooks
In addition to the Admin API, this library also allows querying the Storefront API.
You can use this library in any application that has a Ruby backend, since it doesn't rely on any specific framework — you can include it alongside your preferred stack and use the features that you need to build your app.
Note: These instructions apply to v10 or later of this package. If you're running v9 in your app, you can find the documentation in this branch.
Use with Rails
If using in the Rails framework, we highly recommend you use the shopify_app gem to interact with this gem. Authentication, session storage, webhook registration, and other frequently implemented paths are managed in that gem with easy to use configurations.
Requirements
To follow these usage guides, you will need to:
- have a working knowledge of ruby and a web framework such as Rails or Sinatra
- have a Shopify Partner account and development store
- have an app already set up in your test store or partner account
- add the URL and the appropriate redirect for your OAuth callback route to your app settings
Installation
Add the following to your Gemfile:
gem "shopify_api"
or use bundler:
bundle add shopify_api
Steps to use the Gem
Setup Shopify Context
Start by initializing the ShopifyAPI::Context
with the parameters of your app by calling ShopifyAPI::Context.setup
(example below) when your app starts (e.g application.rb
in a Rails app).
ShopifyAPI::Context.setup(
api_key: "<api-key>",
api_secret_key: "<api-secret-key>",
host: "<https://application-host-name.com>",
scope: "read_orders,read_products,etc",
is_embedded: true, # Set to true if you are building an embedded app
api_version: "2022-01", # The version of the API you would like to use
is_private: false, # Set to true if you have an existing private app
)
Performing OAuth
You need to go through OAuth as described here to create sessions for shops using your app. The Shopify API gem tries to make this easy by providing functions to begin and complete the OAuth process. See the Oauth doc for instructions on how to use these.
Register Webhooks and a Webhook Handler
If you intend to use webhooks in your application follow the steps in the Webhooks doc for instructions on registering and handling webhooks.
Start Making Authenticated Shopify API Requests
Once your app can perform OAuth, it can now make authenticated Shopify API calls, see docs for:
- Making Admin REST API requests
- Making Admin GraphQL API requests
- Making Storefront GraphQL API requests
Breaking Change Notices
Breaking change notice for version 10.0.0
Breaking changes for older versions
See BREAKING_CHANGES_FOR_OLDER_VERSIONS
Developing this gem
After cloning the repository, you can install the dependencies with bundler:
bundle install
To run the automated tests:
bundle exec rake test
We use rubocop to lint/format the code. You can run it with the following command:
bundle exec rubocop