The WooCommerce REST API gives developers access to the functionality of WooCommerce from outside the WordPress site. With the REST API, you can create apps that sell products from your WooCommerce store, or even provide customer support. In this article, we’ll show you how to create a REST API in WooCommerce.
To create a REST API in WooCommerce, you’ll need to install the WooCommerce REST API extension. You can find this extension by going to your WordPress Dashboard and selecting “Add New” from the “Plugins” menu.
Once you’ve installed and activated the extension, you’ll need to go to your WooCommerce settings page and click on the “REST API” tab. From here, you’ll need to generate a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. These will be used to authenticate your app with the WooCommerce API.
Once you have your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, you can start creating your app. To do this, you’ll need to create a file called wc-api.php in your app’s root directory. This file will contain your app’s code that interacts with the WooCommerce API.
In your wc-api.php file, you’ll first need to include the following code:
<?php
require_once( 'path/to/woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api.php' );
$wc_rest_api = new WC_REST_API();
$wc_rest_api->register_routes(); ?>This code includes the WooCommerce REST API class and registers your app’s routes with WooCommerce. Routes are how your app will interact with the WooCommerce API endpoints. For example, if your app needs to create a new product, it would use the /products/ endpoint.
Once you’ve registered your routes, you can start adding code to your wc-api.php file to interact with the WooCommerce API endpoints. We won’t go into detail on how to do this here, but there are plenty of resources available online that can help you get started.
Conclusion:
Now that you know how to create a REST API in WooCommerce, you can start building apps that sell products from your store or provide customer support. If you need help getting started, there are plenty of resources available online.
