WooCommerce API - Python Client

A Python wrapper for the WooCommerce REST API. Easily interact with the WooCommerce REST API using this library.

Installation

pip install woocommerce

Getting started

Generate API credentials (Consumer Key & Consumer Secret) following this instructions http://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#rest-api-keys.

Check out the WooCommerce API endpoints and data that can be manipulated in http://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/.

Setup

from woocommerce import API

wcapi = API(
    url="http://example.com",
    consumer_key="ck_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    consumer_secret="cs_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    version="wc/v3"
)

Options

Option	Type	Required	Description
url	string	yes	Your Store URL, example: http://woo.dev/
consumer_key	string	yes	Your API consumer key
consumer_secret	string	yes	Your API consumer secret
version	string	no	API version, default is wc/v3
timeout	integer	no	Connection timeout, default is 5
verify_ssl	bool	no	Verify SSL when connect, use this option as False when need to test with self-signed certificates
query_string_auth	bool	no	Force Basic Authentication as query string when True and using under HTTPS, default is False
oauth_timestamp	integer	no	Custom timestamp for requests made with oAuth1.0a
wp_api	bool	no	Set to False in order to use the legacy WooCommerce API (deprecated)

Methods

Params	Type	Description
endpoint	string	WooCommerce API endpoint, example: customers or order/12
data	dictionary	Data that will be converted to JSON
**kwargs	dictionary	Accepts params, also other Requests arguments

GET

• .get(endpoint, **kwargs)

POST

• .post(endpoint, data, **kwargs)

PUT

• .put(endpoint, data), **kwargs

DELETE

• .delete(endpoint, **kwargs)

OPTIONS

• .options(endpoint, **kwargs)

Response

All methods will return Response object.

Example of returned data:

>>> r = wcapi.get("products")
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=UTF-8'
>>> r.encoding
'UTF-8'
>>> r.text
u'{"products":[{"title":"Flying Ninja","id":70,...' // Json text
>>> r.json()
{u'products': [{u'sold_individually': False,... // Dictionary data

Request with params example

from woocommerce import API

wcapi = API(
    url="http://example.com",
    consumer_key="ck_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    consumer_secret="cs_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    version="wc/v3"
)

# Force delete example.
print(wcapi.delete("products/100", params={"force": True}).json())

# Query example.
print(wcapi.get("products", params={"per_page": 20}).json())

Changelog

2.1.1 - 2019/07/22

• Updated Request library to 2.22.0.
• Updated examples.

2.1.0 - 2019/01/15

• Uses WP REST API by default, need to force wp_api as False in order to use the legacy WooCommerce API.
• Updated default REST API version to wc/v3.

2.0.0 - 2019/01/15

• Updated "Requests" library to version 2.20.0.
• Added support for custom timestamps in oAuth1.0a requests with oauth_timestamp.
• Allow pass custom arguments to "Requests" library.

1.2.1 - 2016/12/14

• Fixed WordPress 4.7 compatibility.

1.2.0 - 2016/06/22

• Added option query_string_auth to allow Basic Auth as query strings.

1.1.1 - 2016/06/03

• Fixed oAuth signature for WP REST API.

1.1.0 - 2016/05/09

• Added support for WP REST API.
• Added method to do HTTP OPTIONS requests.

1.0.5 - 2015/12/07

• Fixed oAuth filters sorting.

1.0.4 - 2015/09/25

• Implemented timeout argument for API class.

1.0.3 - 2015/08/07

• Forced utf-8 encoding on API.__request() to avoid UnicodeDecodeError

1.0.2 - 2015/08/05

• Fixed handler for query strings

1.0.1 - 2015/07/13

• Fixed support for Python 2.6

1.0.1 - 2015/07/12

• Initial version