Developing Shopify Apps, Part 2: Exploring the API - Shopify

This post introduces the concept of RESTful APIs and explains the four core HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) in the context of interacting with Shopify's API. It demonstrates how to retrieve shop and product data using GET requests by constructing API URIs with authentication credentials and resource names. The post also provides the foundational understanding for programmatic control of Shopify shops by detailing the structure of API responses in XML and JSON formats.