The ShopifyAPI library allows Python developers to programmatically access the admin section of stores.

The API is accessed using pyactiveresource in order to provide an interface similar to the ruby Shopify API gem. The data itself is sent as XML over HTTP to communicate with Shopify, which provides a web service that follows the REST principles as much as possible.

All API usage happens through Shopify applications, created by either shop owners for their own shops, or by Shopify Partners for use by other shop owners:

• Shop owners can create applications for themselves through their own admin (under the Apps > Manage Apps).
• Shopify Partners create applications through their admin: http://app.shopify.com/services/partners

For more information and detailed documentation about the API visit http://api.shopify.com

To install or upgrade to the latest release:

easy_install -U ShopifyAPI

To install from source, first install the pre-requisites:

easy_install pyactiveresource PyYAML python-dateutil==1.5

Then use the setup script in the root of this source tree.

python setup.py install

ShopifyAPI uses pyactiveresource to communicate with the REST web service. pyactiveresource has to be configured with a fully authorized URL of a particular store first. To obtain that URL you can follow these steps:

1. First create a new application in either the partners admin or your store admin and write down your API_KEY and SHARED_SECRET.

2. You will need to supply two parameters to the Session class before you instantiate it:

   shopify.Session.setup(api_key=API_KEY, secret=SHARED_SECRET)

3. For application to access a shop via the API, they first need a "token" specific to the shop, which is obtained from Shopify after the owner has granted the application access to the shop. This can be done by redirecting the shop owner to permission URL obtained as follows:

   shop_url = "yourshopname.myshopify.com"
   permission_url = shopify.Session.create_permission_url(shop_url)

4. After visiting this URL, the shop redirects the owner to a custom URL of your application where the token gets sent to (it's param name is just t) along with other parameters to ensure it was sent by Shopify. That token is used to instantiate the session so that it is ready to make calls to that particular shop.

   session = shopify.Session(shop_url, params)

5. Now you can finally get the fully authorized URL for that shop. Use that URL to configure ActiveResource and you're set:

   shopify.ShopifyResource.site = session.site

6. Get data from that shop (returns ActiveResource instances):

   shop = shopify.Shop.current()
   latest_orders = shopify.Order.find()

This package also includes the shopify_api.py script to make it easy to open up an interactive console to use the API with a shop.

1. Go to https://yourshopname.myshopify.com/admin/api to generate a private application and obtain your API key and password to use with your shop.

2. Use the shopify_api.py script to save the credentials for the shop to quickly login. The script uses PyYAML to save and load connection configurations in the same format as the ruby shopify_api.

   shopify_api.py add yourshopname

   Follow the prompts for the shop domain, API key and password.

3. Start the console for the connection.

   shopify_api.py console

4. Enter the following for the full list of the commands.

   shopify_api.py help

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