WooCommerce REST API: Create Products with Attributes
Before all I also recommend you to check my basic WooCommerce REST API tutorial, where we just created and updated some simple products.
Right now I am going to show you two more specific examples. Two – because there are two types of attributes in WooCommerce – custom attributes and the ones that created in Products > Attributes menu (those are technically taxonomies).
Create a Product with Custom Product Attributes
And yes, for every example we will need a pair of Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, please read here how to get them.
$response = wp_remote_post(
'https://test-website/wp-json/wc/v3/products',
array(
'headers' => array(
'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . base64_encode( "$key:$secret" )
),
'body' => array(
'name' => 'My test product',
'regular_price' => '21.99',
'attributes' => array(
array(
'name' => 'Magical',
'visible' => true, // default: false
'options' => array( 'Yes', 'No' )
)
)
)
)
);
if( 'Created' === wp_remote_retrieve_response_message( $response ) ) {
$body = json_decode( wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response ) );
echo 'The product ' . $body->name . ' has been created';
}I think there is nothing to explain in the above code. After running it, if you go to the edit product page, you will see something like this on the Attributes tab:
Create Products with Taxonomy-type Attributes
In case you would like to add a taxonomy-based attribute to a product, you will need to know the attribute ID, which can be found easily – just go to Products — Attributes page, click Edit button near the specific attribute and look at the page URL.
$response = wp_remote_post(
'https://test-website/wp-json/wc/v3/products',
array(
'headers' => array(
'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . base64_encode( "$key:$secret" )
),
'body' => array(
'name' => 'My test product',
'regular_price' => '21.99',
'attributes' => array(
// attribute 1 (custom attribute)
array(
'name' => 'Magical',
'position' => 1,
'visible' => true, // default: false
'options' => array( 'Yes', 'No' ),
),
// attribute 2 (taxonomy-based attribute)
array(
'id' => '2',
'position' => 0,
'variation' => true,
'options' => array( 'Black', 'White' ),
)
)
)
)
);And here we are:
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Hello thanks for the post
i dont understand where to add this code and is it possible to create the product using javascript?
i.e a user at the front end can create the product in my store. thanks alot for the help
Hello Dennis,
This code can be added where you need it. In your custom function. Actually the code above is enough to create a UI for users. But of course there would be HTML forms, JS etc.
Yes, it is possible with only JavaScript method but I have no ready code for it at this moment.
Hi, its great have a try.
Hi, I try to add new attribute values to an existing product (with existing variants) in order to be able to create new variants afterwards. With regard to your example, I try to add the values “small” and “very small”. After successfully doing so, the former values (Big, SuperBig) have vanished though. How can I add the new values rather than overwrite the old ones?
Thank you!
Regards, Michael