Storefront API

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• Getting started
• Guides
• API reference
• GraphQL + Shopify
• GraphQL Explorer

The Storefront API gives you full creative control to build customized purchasing experiences for your customers.

In contrast with the Admin API, which enables developers to build apps around merchant-facing actions (such as shipping and fulfillment), the Storefront API focuses on shopping experiences seen from the customer perspective.

Using the Storefront API, you can:

• Fetch data about a single product or a collection of products to display on any website or device.
• Create unique checkout experiences with full control over the shopping cart.
• Create new customers or modify existing ones, including address information.
• Allow customers to select unique product options.

Caution

The Storefront API is an unauthenticated public API and provides a scoped view of the shop from the perspective of a single storefront. For example, fetching products will only fetch those that have been published to the app and not every product in your shop.

Next steps

Follow the getting started guide to quickly get up-and-running with the Storefront API and begin building your own custom purchasing experience:

Getting Started

Where to get help

Storefront API Reference

Use Shopify's Storefront API to create custom storefronts for practically any interface.

Guides

Learn how to query the API using GraphQL, and how to build customized purchasing experiences.

Shopify Forums

Visit our forums to connect with the community and find out more about the Shopify API and App development.