Shopify Stores Expose Full Product Catalogs via Public JSON API by Default

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Almost every Shopify storefront serves its complete product catalog as publicly accessible JSON data at a standard URL endpoint, requiring no API key or login. The undocumented-but-official endpoint returns detailed product data including pricing, stock availability per variant, SKUs, tags, and launch dates. Developers can paginate through entire catalogs using simple query parameters, and per-collection views are also available. The author has built and published an Apify actor that automates catalog retrieval, normalizes the data, and supports scheduled runs for competitive price and stock monitoring. A small minority of stores disable the endpoint and return empty responses, but no workaround exists or is needed given how widely it is available.

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