woocommerce

WooCommerce Development Skill

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

Sources: WooCommerce REST API | Developer 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;