A Private App API Password or API Key generated using OAuth

How to get

Create private app

First, you will need to create a Private App:

1. Log in to your Shopify store admin at https://<store subdomain>.myshopify.com/admin
2. Click "Apps" in the sidebar on the left
3. On the bottom of the page, click "Manage private apps" next to "Working with a developer on your shop?"
4. Click the "Create a new private app" button
5. Enter a "Private app name" of your choosing, e.g. "Meltano"
6. Enter your email address under "Emergency developer email"
7. In the "Admin API" section, click "▼ Review disabled Admin API permissions"
8. Choose "Read access" rather than "No access" in the access level dropdowns for the following permissions:
9. Products, variants and collections - read_products, write_products
10. Orders, transactions and fulfillments - read_orders, write_orders
11. Customer details and customer groups - read_customers, write_customers
12. Click "Save"
13. In the modal that appears, click "I understand, create the app"

Find your API password

Now that your app has been created, we can acquire the password Meltano will use to authenticate with the Shopify API.

1. In the "Admin API" section on the private app details page, find the "Password" field and click "Show"
2. The value that appears (starting with shppa_) is your API password. You can copy and paste it into the Meltano data source configuration.

The store subdomain, which can be derived from your Shopify admin URL.

If your admin URL starts with https://my-first-store.myshopify.com/, your store subdomain is my-first-store.

Determines how much historical data will be extracted. Please be aware that the larger the time period and amount of data, the longer the initial extraction can be expected to take.