/woocommerce

name: woocommerce
description: WooCommerce REST API - products, orders, customers, webhooks
when-to-use: When integrating with WooCommerce stores
user-invocable: false
effort: medium

WooCommerce Development Skill

For integrating with WooCommerce stores via REST API - products, orders, customers, webhooks, and custom extensions.

**Sources:** [WooCommerce REST API](https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/) | [Developer Docs](https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/)

---

Prerequisites

Store Requirements

# WooCommerce store must have:
# 1. WordPress with WooCommerce plugin installed
# 2. HTTPS enabled (required for API auth)
# 3. Permalinks set to anything except "Plain"
#    WordPress Admin → Settings → Permalinks → Post name (recommended)

Generate API Keys

1. Go to **WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → REST API** 2. Click **Add key** 3. Set Description, User (admin), and Permissions (Read/Write) 4. Click **Generate API key** 5. Copy **Consumer Key** and **Consumer Secret** (shown only once)

---

API Basics

Base URL

https://your-store.com/wp-json/wc/v3/

Authentication

// Node.js - Basic Auth (recommended)
const WooCommerceRestApi = require("@woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api").default;

const api = new WooCommerceRestApi({
  url: "https://your-store.com",
  consumerKey: process.env.WC_CONSUMER_KEY,
  consumerSecret: process.env.WC_CONSUMER_SECRET,
  version: "wc/v3"
});

# Python
from woocommerce import API

wcapi = API(
    url="https://your-store.com",
    consumer_key=os.environ["WC_CONSUMER_KEY"],
    consumer_secret=os.environ["WC_CONSUMER_SECRET"],
    version="wc/v3"
)

Query String Auth (Fallback)

# Only use if Basic Auth fails (some hosting configurations)
curl https://your-store.com/wp-json/wc/v3/products \
  ?consumer_key=ck_xxx&consumer_secret=cs_xxx

---

Installation

Node.js

npm install @woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api

// lib/woocommerce.ts
import WooCommerceRestApi from "@woocommerce/woocommerce-rest-api";

const api = new WooCommerceRestApi({
  url: process.env.WC_STORE_URL!,
  consumerKey: process.env.WC_CONSUMER_KEY!,
  consumerSecret: process.env.WC_CONSUMER_SECRET!,
  version: "wc/v3",
  queryStringAuth: false, // Set true for HTTP (dev only)
});

export default api;

Python

pip install woocommerce

# lib/woocommerce.py
import os
from woocommerce import API

wcapi = API(
    url=os.environ["WC_STORE_URL"],
    consumer_key=os.environ["WC_CONSUMER_KEY"],
    consumer_secret=os.environ["WC_CONSUMER_SECRET"],
    version="wc/v3",
    timeout=30
)

---

Products

List Products

// Node.js
async function getProducts(page = 1, perPage = 20) {
  const response = await api.get("products", {
    page,
    per_page: perPage,
    status: "publish",
  });
  return response.data;
}

// With filters
async function searchProducts(search: string, category?: number) {
  const response = await api.get("products", {
    search,
    category: category || undefined,
    orderby: "popularity",
    order: "desc",
  });
  return response.data;
}

# Python
def get_products(page=1, per_page=20):
    response = wcapi.get("products", params={
        "page": page,
        "per_page": per_page,
        "status": "publish"
    })
    return response.json()

Get Single Product

async function getProduct(productId: number) {
  const response = await api.get(`products/${productId}`);
  return response.data;
}

Create Product

async function createProduct(data: ProductInput) {
  const response = await api.post("products", {
    name: data.name,
    type: "simple", // simple, variable, grouped, external
    regular_price: data.price.toString(),
    description: data.description,
    short_description: data.shortDescription,
    categories: data.categoryIds.map(id => ({ id })),
    images: data.images.map(url => ({ src: url })),
    manage_stock: true,
    stock_quantity: data.stockQuantity,
    status: "publish",
  });
  return response.data;
}

Update Product

async function updateProduct(productId: number, data: Partial<ProductInput>) {
  const response = await api.put(`products/${productId}`, data);
  return response.data;
}

// Update stock only
async function updateStock(productId: number, quantity: number) {
  const response = await api.put(`products/${productId}`, {
    stock_quantity: quantity,
  });
  return response.data;
}

Delete Product

async function deleteProduct(productId: number, force = false) {
  // force: true = permanent delete, false = move to trash
  const response = await api.delete(`products/${productId}`, {
    force,
  });
  return response.data;
}

Variable Products

// Create variable product
async function createVariableProduct(data: VariableProductInput) {
  // 1. Create product with type "variable"
  const product = await api.post("products", {
    name: data.name,
    type: "variable",
    attributes: [
      {
        name: "Size",
        visible: true,
        variation: true,
        options: ["Small", "Medium", "Large"],
      },
      {
        name: "Color",
        visible: true,
        variation: true,
        options: ["Red", "Blue"],
      },
    ],
  });

  // 2. Create variations
  for (const variant of data.variants) {
    await api.post(`products/${product.data.id}/variations`, {
      regular_price: variant.price.toString(),
      stock_quantity: variant.stock,
      attributes: [
        { name: "Size", option: variant.size },
        { name: "Color", option: variant.color },
      ],
    });
  }

  return product.data;
}

// Get variations
async function getVariations(productId: number) {
  const response = await api.get(`products/${productId}/variations`);
  return response.data;
}

---

Orders

List