shopify-api-patterns

Shopify Admin GraphQL API queries retrieve products and variants using cursor-based pagination with precise field selection. This Skill provides reusable patterns for structuring these queries, handling pagination cursors, and selecting only the fields you need to reduce payload size and API costs.

Metafields in Shopify store custom data on resources like products and customers. This Skill provides patterns for querying existing metafields, defining new metafield definitions, and upserting metafield values via GraphQL mutations, enabling programmatic custom data management.

Webhooks notify your system of Shopify events, and bulk operations process large datasets asynchronously. This Skill codifies patterns for registering webhooks, managing their lifecycle, and executing bulk GraphQL operations while respecting Shopify's rate limits.

Shopify Admin GraphQL API enforces rate limits based on query cost and request tokens. This Skill includes built-in rate-limit awareness patterns that track cost, implement backoff strategies, and structure queries to stay within budget, preventing throttling errors.

Cursor-based pagination efficiently retrieves customers and orders across large result sets without offset drift. This Skill provides patterns for constructing paginated GraphQL queries, storing cursors, and iterating through results while maintaining consistent field selection.

Authentication to Shopify Admin GraphQL requires valid API credentials or access tokens, and error responses include structured error types. This Skill provides patterns for managing authentication headers, parsing GraphQL error responses, and implementing retry logic for transient failures.