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Admin API Client

The Admin API Client library is for developers who want to interact with Shopify's GraphQL Admin API. The features of this library are designed to be lightweight and minimally opinionated.

Getting Started

Install the package:

npm install @shopify/admin-api-client -s

Initialize the client:

import {createAdminApiClient} from '@shopify/admin-api-client';

const client = createAdminApiClient({
  storeDomain: 'your-shop-name.myshopify.com',
  apiVersion: '2023-04',
  accessToken: 'your-admin-api-access-token',
});

Query for a product:

const operation = `
  query ProductQuery($id: ID!) {
    product(id: $id) {
      id
      title
      handle
    }
  }
`;

const {data, errors, extensions} = await client.request(operation, {
  variables: {
    id: 'gid://shopify/Product/7608002183224',
  },
});

createAdminApiClient() parameters

Property Type Description
storeDomain string The myshopify.com domain
apiVersion string The requested Admin API version
accessToken string The Admin API access token
userAgentPrefix? string Any prefix you wish to include in the User-Agent for requests made by the library.
retries? number The number of HTTP request retries if the request was abandoned or the server responded with a Too Many Requests (429) or Service Unavailable (503) response. Default value is 0. Maximum value is 3.
customFetchAPI? (url: string, init?: {method?: string, headers?: HeaderInit, body?: string}) => Promise<Response> A replacement fetch function that will be used in all client network requests. By default, the client uses window.fetch().
logger? (logContent:UnsupportedApiVersionLog |HTTPResponseLog|HTTPRetryLog) => void A logger function that accepts log content objects. This logger will be called in certain conditions with contextual information.

Client properties

Property Type Description
config AdminApiClientConfig Configuration for the client
getHeaders (headers?: {[key: string]: string}) => {[key: string]: string Returns Admin API specific headers needed to interact with the API. If additional headers are provided, the custom headers will be included in the returned headers object.
getApiUrl (apiVersion?: string) => string Returns the shop specific API url. If an API version is provided, the returned URL will include the provided version, else the URL will include the API version set at client initialization.
fetch (operation: string, options?:AdminAPIClientRequestOptions) => Promise<Response> Fetches data from Admin API using the provided GQL operation string and AdminAPIClientRequestOptions object and returns the network response.
request <TData>(operation: string, options?:AdminAPIClientRequestOptions) => Promise<ClientResponse<TData>> Requests data from Admin API using the provided GQL operation string and AdminAPIClientRequestOptions object and returns a normalized response object.

AdminApiClientConfig properties

Name Type Description
storeDomain string The myshopify.com domain
apiVersion string The Admin API version to use in the API request
accessToken string The provided public access token. If privateAccessToken was provided, publicAccessToken will not be available.
headers {[key: string]: string} The headers generated by the client during initialization
apiUrl string The API URL generated from the provided store domain and api version
retries? number The number of retries the client will attempt when the API responds with a Too Many Requests (429) or Service Unavailable (503) response

ApiClientRequestOptions properties

Name Type Description
variables? {[key: string]: any} Variable values needed in the graphQL operation
apiVersion? string The Admin API version to use in the API request
headers? {[key: string]: string} Customized headers to be included in the API request
retries? number Alternative number of retries for the request. Retries only occur for requests that were abandoned or if the server responds with a Too Many Request (429) or Service Unavailable (503) response. Minimum value is 0 and maximum value is 3.

ClientResponse<TData>

Name Type Description
data? Partial<TData> | any Data returned from the Admin API. If TData was provided to the function, the return type is TData, else it returns type any.
errors? ResponseErrors Error object that contains any API or network errors that occured while fetching the data from the API. It does not include any UserErrors.
extensions? {[key: string]: any} Additional information on the GraphQL response data and context. It can include the context object that contains the localization context information used to generate the returned API response.

ResponseErrors

Name Type Description
networkStatusCode? number HTTP response status code
message? string The provided error message
graphQLErrors? any[] The GraphQL API errors returned by the server
response? Response The raw response object from the network fetch call

Client request() response examples

Successful response

API response

{
  "data": {
    "product": {
      "id": "gid://shopify/Product/7608002183224",
      "title": "Aera",
      "handle": "aera-helmet"
    }
    },
    "extensions": {
    "cost": {
      "requestedQueryCost": 1,
      "actualQueryCost": 1,
      "throttleStatus": {
      "maximumAvailable": 1000.0,
      "currentlyAvailable": 999,
      "restoreRate": 50.0
      }
    }
  }
}
Error responses

Network error

{
  "networkStatusCode": 401,
  "message": "Unauthorized"
}

Admin API graphQL error

{
  "networkStatusCode": 200,
  "message": "An error occurred while fetching from the API. Review the `graphQLErrors` object for details.",
  "graphQLErrors": [
    {
      "message": "Field 'testField' doesn't exist on type 'Product'",
      "locations": [
        {
          "line": 17,
          "column": 3
        }
      ],
      "path": ["fragment ProductFragment", "testField"],
      "extensions": {
        "code": "undefinedField",
        "typeName": "Product",
        "fieldName": "testField"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Usage examples

Query for a product

const productQuery = `
  query ProductQuery($id: ID!) {
    product(id: $id) {
      id
      title
      handle
    }
  }
`;

const {data, errors, extensions} = await client.request(productQuery, {
  variables: {
    id: 'gid://shopify/Product/7608002183224',
  },
});

Dynamically set the Admin API version per data fetch

const productQuery = `
  query ProductQuery($id: ID!) {
    product(id: $id) {
      id
      title
      handle
    }
  }
`;

const {data, errors, extensions} = await client.request(productQuery, {
  variables: {
    id: 'gid://shopify/Product/7608002183224',
  },
  apiVersion: '2023-01',
});

Add custom headers to API request

const productQuery = `
  query ProductQuery($id: ID!) {
    product(id: $id) {
      id
      title
      handle
    }
  }
`;

const {data, errors, extensions} = await client.request(productQuery, {
  variables: {
    id: 'gid://shopify/Product/7608002183224',
  },
  headers: {
    'X-GraphQL-Cost-Include-Fields': true,
  },
});

Using client.fetch() to get API data

const shopQuery = `
  query shop {
    shop {
      name
    }
  }
`;

const response = await client.fetch(shopQuery);

if (response.ok) {
  const {errors, data, extensions} = await response.json();
}

Dynamically set the number of retries per request

const productQuery = `
  query ProductQuery($handle: String) {
    product(handle: $handle) {
      id
      title
      handle
    }
  }
`;

const {data, errors, extensions} = await client.request(productQuery, {
  variables: {
    handle: 'sample-product',
  },
  retries: 2,
});

Typing variables and return objects

This client is compatible with the @shopify/api-codegen-preset package. You can use that package to create types from your operations with the Codegen CLI.

There are different ways to configure codegen with it, but the simplest way is to:

  1. Add the preset package as a dev dependency to your project, for example: 
    npm install --save-dev @shopify/api-codegen-preset
  2. Create a .graphqlrc.ts file in your root containing: 
    import { ApiType, shopifyApiProject } from "@shopify/api-codegen-preset";

export default {
  schema: "https://shopify.dev/admin-graphql-direct-proxy",
  documents: ["*.ts", "!node_modules"],
  projects: {
    default: shopifyApiProject({
      apiType: ApiType.Admin,
      apiVersion: "2023-10",
      outputDir: "./types",
    }),
  },
};
  3. Add "graphql-codegen": "graphql-codegen" to your scripts section in package.json.
  4. Tag your operations with #graphql, for example: 
    const {data, errors, extensions} = await client.request(
  `#graphql
  query Shop {
    shop {
      name
    }
  }`
);
console.log(data?.shop.name);
  5. Run npm run graphql-codegen to parse the types from your operations.

Note

Remember to ensure that your tsconfig includes the files under ./types!

Once the script runs, it'll create the file ./types/admin.generated.d.ts. When TS includes that file, it'll automatically cause the client to detect the types for each query.

Log Content Types

UnsupportedApiVersionLog

This log content is sent to the logger whenever an unsupported API version is provided to the client.

Property Type Description
type LogType['UNSUPPORTED_API_VERSION'] The type of log content. Is always set to UNSUPPORTED_API_VERSION
content {apiVersion: string, supportedApiVersions: string[]} Contextual info including the provided API version and the list of currently supported API versions.

HTTPResponseLog

This log content is sent to the logger whenever a HTTP response is received by the client.

Property Type Description
type LogType['HTTP-Response'] The type of log content. Is always set to HTTP-Response
content {requestParams: [url, init?], response: Response} Contextual data regarding the request and received response

HTTPRetryLog

This log content is sent to the logger whenever the client attempts to retry HTTP requests.

Property Type Description
type LogType['HTTP-Retry'] The type of log content. Is always set to HTTP-Retry
content {requestParams: [url, init?], lastResponse?: Response, retryAttempt: number, maxRetries: number} Contextual data regarding the upcoming retry attempt.

requestParams: parameters used in the request
lastResponse: previous response
retryAttempt: the current retry attempt count
maxRetries: the maximum number of retries

RequestParams

Property Type Description
url string Requested URL
init? {method?: string, headers?: HeaderInit, body?: string} The request information