Understanding the Shopify API

What is Shopify's API and why is it useful?
In this video, we will learn about the two main APIs that Shopify provides.
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The two main Shopify APIs are namely the Admin API and the Storefront API.
Shopify's Admin API is used to integrate Apps and Features within a Shopify store whereas the Storefront API can help you to build Shopping experiences apart from an online store. Developers are using the Shopify API to integrate third-party services and unlock the full potential of Shopify as a Shop System. Basically, any functionality can be leveraged using the API. Products and orders can be obtained by the API, inventory can be managed, meta fields, and many more. The two main ways of working with these APIs are accessed via REST or GraphQL. While I recommend getting started with REST, cause it is easier to understand, GraphQL will be the future of all new Shopify Features.
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[@BookOfMorman]

Dude the waiter analogy was next level! You're an amazing teacher!

[@CodingWithJan]

Thanks! 😃

[@jeffreysalazar823]

I came across one video of yours and I can't get enough! Your most recent videos with analogies are fantastic! Keep it up man, loving how you explain this stuff.

[@nycstev428]

The waiter example is the cleanest & clearest way of explaining what an API is. Well done, & here is a follow :)

[@CodingWithJan]

Glad it was helpful for you steve! 🎉

[@atoz-gk9zm]

i really appreciate the time you commit to making these videos. Thank you sir!

[@muhammadsalmanawan6173]

you have such great ability to simplify things. Keep up the good work :)

[@woundedhealer8575]

Dude, you’re an absolute genius! Thank you for this video

[@zakariarahman9473]

Hey Jan! I am a newbie in shopify. I have started to learn. It's my first video ragarding shopify. It is a good quality video. Thanks man.

[@genevagin5523]

hi Jan, thank you for your work. i've just started learning shopify api and here is your new video! i would be happy to see more videos about api :)

[@AlbaHorga]

Hi Jan, thank you so much for all your videos, they are really easy to follow and you explain everything perfectly. I've been able to improve my store so much thanks to you. I have the Debut Theme and I've tried to impliment the slideshow to my product images and the thumbnails with no luck and I also want to make a popup with a size chart. I think we all would really apreciate it if you could make a video about those topics. Thanks in advance.

[@diegoalvarez437]

I always wanted to know what was in the background and it was always my confussion, thank you very much, your videos are good, believe me, I've seen a lot in spanish and english. You'll get further. Keep going!!

[@idontwhy3132]

that waiter analogy might be the best explanation for APIs I've heard

[@collinslife7021]

your videos have helped me out a lot thankyou my german friend!

[@Code-Kun]

I would really like to see more videos on API please. Atleast one video where you build a basic app which is using one of the shopify's API. Thank you.

[@expressindia3674]

Thank you Yung for making a great video. Can you please start the API series

[@iLoveTurtlesHaha]

This stuff is gold. Please make more videos like this. :)

[@carvenyong9345]

Love the graphic in the video :)

[@goto...7056]

So cool analogy! Thank you!

[@zainulabideen7628]

Hello Jan, I just found your channel. From the first impression, you seem to be a good teacher. Please make a proper playlist for learning shopify development. I couldn't find a proper sequence for learning through your videos.

[@funzonistan]

[@babagio]

Another great video Jan, very didactic. I'll love to have a series, should be a course, about shopify API programming. Thanks for your work.

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey, thank you for the kind words and your feedback :-)

[@chadmiller9379]

Your explanation was excellent. Thank you!

[@SGDCTVDUBAI]

Thanks Yan and keep up your fun PPT!

[@juliinedi]

Your videos are amazing, thank you so much:) Please film some new ones about API

[@ajayrabari433]

Looking forward for more shopify videos !

[@SunnyArtis]

best definition of api i have ever seen

[@jeanmorrison6422]

WOW love it i to learn more.. this the best how to... and verry clean tutorial ev seen..

[@phronessys]

Thanks for this video, I'm gonna try integrating shopify with vue, wish me luck

[@yuwenxiguo1394]

Thanks for the video! That helps me a lot :)!

[@morneerasmus1789]

Great analogy

[@mayurchhapra7362]

Nide one dude, Keep it up. Really appreciated.

[@mayurchhapra7362]

Worth subscribing :)

[@675Danny]

Great stuff - would like to see implementing a basic api function such as keeping inventory from offline and online store in sync.

[@hexasync]

You can watch this playlist for more overview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYuZhKKnhNyojrs

[@redditologist7847]

Your explanation of APIs couldn't be better.

[@VeryBlueBot]

Love your vids like always.. An in depth (technical) vid about implementing a simple GraphQL api in Shopify app would be super useful.. Lets say with the Shopify Admin api Super specific, I know :) Thanks

[@gerchavz]

Amazing explanation! Are you going to make any tutorial on how to use the new subscription API?

[@ajayrabari433]

Thanks for sharing this. Looking for more development videos.

[@younessidbakkasse9742]

Man, I love your explanations can you please talk about how can we integrate vue with Shopify themes. Thanks

[@amitj5451]

Thats the exact video i was expecting from you brother we want more videos on this Api please make some more videos on each Rest graphql Admin Storefront teach us how to integrate it with shopify and how we can use api for future requirements we are waiting for more videos Jan (Yah you r becoming good with Ppt these days hahahA)

[@JohnBYoutube]

Steadily grow Jan since I first watched you :), might I suggest doing some long-series tutorials :) e.g. how to build your first shopify app :) !

[@learningstuff5679]

Excellent explanation. Jan, I have a question: I want to integrate Square payments to my Shopify store by using Square as the Checkout page within Shopify. Where can I learn this? Thank you.

[@javiergarijo9943]

Hi Jan, I would like to ask you how I can extract analytics data with API. I know I need an Admin API, and use Shopify QL. I just don't know what I should do in between. Where do I input the SQL? Do I need to create a REST API or is not necessary? Thanks a lot in advance and congrats for the channel!

[@GospelMusicians]

Do you accept clients?

[@ericfernandez6706]

Ur the man. Pls do shopify theme development.

[@juuulienr]

Thanks for the video. You are really good at explaining complicated concepts ;) Can you do a comparaison video between REST API and GRAPH API ?

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey Julien, thank you for your feedback. Means the world :-) Great Input, absolutely we can do that!

[@dakshrawal6924]

waiting for the next part Jan ..!! great work..!!

[@CodingWithJan]

Thank you so much :-)

[@gabizn4]

Thanks for the video!

[@stephenpeter1032]

Hi Jan, slightly of topic but ..I have a quick question - on customer billing statement on Shopify payments..it appears for me 'number can't be blank' is there a way to get around this so I can leave it blank (I'd like just to have my store name with a hyperlink on it....is it possible? thanks

[@rahulsharma7793]

That was really helpful. Can you please let me know how can I call my external REST API created in java spring boot from the Shopify admin panel? For example, sending the customer details to the external REST API whenever a new customer is created in Shopify.

[@klokkerholm1993]

Hi Jan how do you make a section with 3-4 columns that shows icons and text below. like - free shipping and 30 day return- also should they flex i and be mobile repsonsive i dont know how to do this in shopify. :(

[@Hsa008]

Always Nice to see your videos🤩

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey Rocky, great you're here :-)

[@Daleon1]

Is it possible to get Shopify and Magic Mirror to talk or any display to show the Shopify data to a display....? (i.e. Sales, Inventory or ready to ship orders)

[@michaelchiz8055]

Was helpful. Thanks

[@sqquidmulti-channelretaili5548]

Thanks for the step by step guide, it helps to know about Shopify API

[@CodingWithJan]

glad to hear 👍

[@funtech7905]

Hey jane, i want to change second image on hover...plz help me out...

[@kaylasmart]

As a former waiter at Chilis that analogy you used was spot on , thank you thank you thank you

[@CodingWithJan]

Super welcome 😃 Thanks for the positive vibes 🙌

[@ankushkumar6113]

Best explanation.

[@michaelchiz8055]

Thanks. We want more videos like this.

[@heatvisuals]

Thanks for the Unity tip!

[@racerrapper9802]

Hey you are a great teacher

[@muhammadhasnat9835]

Amazing, please make a hands on coding tutorial for the storefront API

[@maddoxsciuchetti3045]

Really enjoy your videos. Can you tell me how I can fully customize Shopify chat in code? Thanks !

[@omarb.4527]

Thank you Jan! :)

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey Omar, awesome to see you back here :-) Hope you're doing great!

[@tesslasteve626]

Good job!!!

[@fazaljarral2792]

Hey Jan , next video on using any api as a demo

[@hassanshafiq6241]

I'm sure others are in the same boat .... but can you please do a step-by-step process for creating a Shopify API for Zalando? It would be much appreciated

[@sudyrao]

hey Jan, would you have any advise on how I can automate my printing (of shipping label ) from Shopify store? Without having to click Print.

[@adeisaac]

Nice video, and ohh I love the logo

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey Ade Isaac, I'm always happy to see back on new videos :-) The logo was overdue, thank your for the feedback 😄

[@leandrodegraaf8535]

hi Jan i have a question, how can i contact you?. it will be for me own store specific. its about how to add text underbelow the right corner as example: adres and little text.

[@zuhaibtalkies]

Hi, dear please make a video on quantity selector like if anyone want .5 then how we add this feature

[@Xtremeproducts]

Another great video. Can you provide advise on shipping section with shopify? It has my home address as shipping address (holding inventory). But I'm not holding inventory. I use printful. Thank you.

[@CodingWithJan]

Actually, you can disable product inventory tracking through Shopify on the product editor page itself. Hope that helps :-)

[@XjafnerX]

Hi Jan! nice video. One question: with this videos is posible to create an app that connects a website "A" to "shopify" and pass all the products, inventory updates, automatic selling etc? My company is requesting me this for our B2B company and i don't know where to start... Thanks

[@atleangtruong8292]

Can you help me figure out how to get shipping address in post purchase extension

[@learningstuff5679]

Hi, Jan. Why is the Freemote bootcamp price a secret? I can't find it online?

[@collinslife7021]

very helpful

[@jmathtech]

Danke!

[@chetanmani9869]

Hello Jan, I have a shopify site getting this error: Your custom apps and/or webhooks may stop working Custom apps and/or webhook subscriptions on your store need changes or they may stop working. I have updated the webhook to the latest release but still getting this error. Any help would be welcomed.

[@TH3RDxPrints]

hello Jan :) is there away to add stackable discount codes in shopify ?

[@Mallu_Australia]

Hi, Nice video. I have a question. I am developing an app for shipping. The app installed and shop url and access token is inserted in database. But how can I access the access token on my carrier service callback url. Shopify not sending any kind of store identity in the checkout request.

[@00el04]

do more videos on shopify theme development brother.

[@paksportstv8065]

thank you, Jan this is a very informative video. kindly make a course Shopify apps development

[@ebooks4sale]

WOW Again wonderful Video how do you attain such vast knowledge

[@simonswiss]

Whoaaa this waiter analogy is so good! 🙏🙏

[@CodingWithJan]

Thank you 😁

[@ZISSULTDShopifyExperts]

cool! didn't know that shopify use unity! so cool! p.s congrats on the new logo and the slide before the video begin. if you can show in a new video some practical coding sessions with rest it'll be very cool! (you know that I'm already an addicted follower)

[@CodingWithJan]

The unity integration is something that excites me alot too. Didn't have a project to test it yet though. 😄 Thanks for the kind words and you support, Chen :-)

[@ZISSULTDShopifyExperts]

@@CodingWithJan please add more videos about the API, also shared it with friends and soon I guess with my community (so... if you see more local followers from Israel? my fault haha)

[@airidasstars9141]

Hi brother! I need help,   this code appears in my product page how can i delete it? Thank you

[@vinittamoli8197]

Good one. Will you please make a video on storefront API like how we can use this for creating some new feature?

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey it's noted :-)

[@sephMade]

Do you know how I can add vehicle lookup to my Ireland car sales Shopify store

[@bojan_najdov]

Great and informative post. Thank you. Can the admin API be integrated to ERP and POS systems from Oracle or SAP etc?

[@hexasync]

You can watch this playlist for more overview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYuZhKKnhNyojrs

[@codingevelynmiami4230]

Thank you for the well-explained video. Please go into in-depth with code example, API tends to confuse me.

[@monikachourasiya4732]

I am getting trouble in integrating rest Shopify API in Android studio anyone can plz help me?

[@LaurynasBinderis]

Loving your videos! Could you review REST Vs GraphQL?

[@CodingWithJan]

Hey Laurynas, thank you for the kind words. Absolutely worth a video :-)

[@souvikchatterjee3468]

Sir, Thank you for your all tutorials. and how can I implement cancel order from customer end , using this API " POST /admin/api/2021-04/orders/{order_id}/cancel.json " without using any application ? please help me...

[@davidndanu9655]

Great video....👍🏾

[@veerak3753]

Hi. I am using billing api for application charges in my trial account but getting error as { "errors": { "base": ["It appears that this application is currently owned by a Shop. It must be migrated to the Shopify partners area before it can create charges with the API."] } }

[@hamoudguicheniti3949]

in shopify the calcul of the cart is the sum of (products * quantity) , i want to make it custom for me, what can i do please? thank you

[@maheshj8792]

I need to integrate Via bill-Shopify to angular node js project We are developing an e-commerce website with angular and node js. And we are handling the e-commerce products from our backend side. We need to integrate Via bill and Goaffpro to our e-commerce site. After our research, the Via bill and Goaffpro don't support directly to angular and node js. So we need Shopify as an intermediate for integrating those third-party plugins. Our question is "Does Shopify provide the API's for Via bill and Goaffpro to Angular and node Js?"

[@hasanmahmoud4546]

hello jan could u make a video talking about adding more than 3 options variants to a product in the shopify store for example when buying a T-shirt color : red material : cotton brand : puma ((( style : v-cut )))

[@webdeveloperssp2744]

HiJan, I would like to know how connect the app with the frontend (website). Can you please help?

[@CodingWithJan]

Sorry don't know what kind of app you're talking about

[@ChrisFlex]

AMAZING and Informative video as always. Can you do a video on the steps to actually connect the APIs. I have started experiments with FlutterFlow to create our company's own managed app. I have firebase set up and I am confused and there isn't alot of information I can find how to connect our Shopify store to our FlutterFlow app.

[@user-qe8bv9nk8m]

You voice sounds so good. What's your voice recording equipment?

[@CodingWithJan]

Thanks its called Auna mic :-)

[@DanAleTosta]

Good Stuff

[@mwacharojohn9318]

awesome content

[@yellowbagpondicherryindia1270]

How can I get your support to customize my store?