How Do I Create a Custom REST API in WooCommerce?

Do you want to create a custom WooCommerce REST API? This can be a great way to get your WooCommerce store data into another system, or even just to keep track of changes that happen in your store. In this article, we’ll show you how to create a custom WooCommerce REST API.

Creating a custom WooCommerce REST API can be done with just a few steps. First, you need to install the WooCommerce REST API plugin. This will add the necessary infrastructure for your custom WooCommerce REST API.

Once the plugin is installed and activated, you need to generate a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. These will be used to authenticate your requests to the WooCommerce REST API. You can do this by going to WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > REST API and clicking on the “Add Key” button.

Fill in the “Description” field and make sure the “Permissions” are set to “Read/Write”. Then click on the “Generate Key” button. Once you have your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, you’re ready to start making requests to the WooCommerce REST API.

To make a request, you need to specify the endpoint you want to access, as well as any parameters that are required. The endpoint for the Orders resource is “/wc-api/v3/orders”. So if we wanted to get a list of all orders, we would make a GET request to “/wc-api/v3/orders”.

We can also specify additional parameters, such as how many results we want per page and what page we want to retrieve. For example, if we wanted to get 10 orders from page 2, we would make a GET request to “/wc-api/v3/orders?page=2&per_page=10”.

Once you have your endpoint and parameters set up, you’re ready to make a request. The easiest way to do this is using the cURL library for PHP. You can install cURL by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

Once cURL is installed, you can make a request like this:

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://example.com/wc-api/v3/orders' );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

$response = curl_exec( $ch );

curl_close( $ch );

This will send a GET request to the “/wc-api/v3/orders” endpoint and return the response as a string. You can then decode the JSON response into an array using the json_decode() function:

$data = json_decode( $response );

The data variable will now contain an array of data that includes information about each order. You can access individual orders like this:

foreach ( $data->orders as $order ) {
// Do something with each order object..
}

This is just a basic example of how you can use the WooCommerce REST API. For more information about what endpoints are available and how to use them, check out our documentation for the WooCommerce REST API.