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Shopify API Data Manipulation

1 post · Aug 2011

What this trail covers

Shopify has evolved its APIs to allow for dynamic content injection into shop pages via Application Proxies. This enables third-party applications to serve content that is rendered through Shopify's Liquid templating engine, allowing for seamless integration of external data and functionality into the native shop experience. Security is maintained through signed requests.

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  1. Developing Shopify Apps, Part 4: Change is Good - ShopifyThis post details how to modify existing customer and product data using the Shopify API via HTTP PUT requests. It explains the URL format for targeting specific items (customers by ID, products by ID) and the structure of the request body for updating fields like addresses, cities, zip codes, phone numbers, and product tags. It covers both XML and JSON formats for requests and responses, demonstrating practical examples of updating customer addresses and adding tags to products.