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Introduction
Our aim is to fetch products from a Shopify store – Details such as: Product Name, Price, SKU, Product Image, Tags, etc., and then display the above-fetched products on a Non-Shopify based store or set up.
All Shopify stores have a public access product feed URL, which shows product information in XML format. So, what we can do is, create a demo or test store and then proceed with the below steps.
Steps to fetch collections/products from Shopify stores
- Create a Shopify-based store (You can create a FREE trial account or skip the step in case you already have a Shopify store.)
- Add few collections and products (Skip if you already have collections and products on your store).
Reference: Shopify Collections| Shopify Products
Now, simply try the following URLs with the URLs and other details specific to your Shopify store…
Shopify All Collection products feed URL: https://www.example.com/collections/all.atom
Replace “example.com” with “your store URL address” and open this URL in your browser. You will get a page with XML format data. The XML format data contains information of Shopify products regardless of their collection or category.
Shopify Single Collection products feed URL: https://www.example.com/collections/collection-handle.atom
How to automate the collection or product syncing process?
- Create a PHP-CURL script at the other non-shopify-based store and hit the above URLs.
- Save the fetched product/collection information in your own database.
- Remember, users have to go to the Shopify store to complete the purchase as your non-shopify-based store is only serving the path to the actual product.
- You can set a CRON to the PHP-CURL script at the non-shopify-based store hosting to update the products and collection list in your database at a certain interval of time.
SAMPLE OUTPUT – 1: http://yourstore.myshopify.com/collections/replace-with-your-collection-name.atom
SAMPLE OUTPUT – 2: http://yourstore.myshopify.com/collections/all.atom
