Smart Collection Automator

Smart Collection Automator is a Shopify private application.

The smart collection automator is a private application written in Java that is created to post a JSON of smart collection rulesets to the Shopify store's smart-collection endpoint. It was designed to cut down time and energy wasted in creating the rest of the collections that were necessary to finish designing our client's websites. Using this method, we can post as many collections with as many rules or conditions as we'd like under a couple minutes. This app is command-line based and has no GUI to interact with.

How to complete this?

Learn more about how private app development works in Shopify's platform to create one. Identify the endpoint that posts incoming JSON data of smart collections to the specific store. Retrieve required authentication credentials to access Admin API to post to the endpoint such as the store domain, and the private app token. Create the JSON file with the collections and the rulesets for each. Build a program that takes that JSON and posts to the endpoint using the credentials to access it.

• Research

  Learn aout private app development and the endpoint responsible to post smart collection data to.

• Create the Smart Collection JSON

  Create the JSON that packs in the collections and its rulesets/conditions.

• Build

  Create a Java program that posts the JSON data to the endpoint with the required headers/credentials to access the endpoint.

Project result and summary

Project cuts down a lot of time to create smart collections manually and keeps us more efficient.