IMPORTANT NOTE
As of 22 Oct 2019 – this script seems to be in an infinite loop – so use this as a coding concept ONLY.
I will debug it in due course, and update – BUT if you spot the issue first please do leave me a comment below with your solution.
Following on from my previous tutorials on Google Sheets and WordPress Rest API some people have asked me if you can do the same with WooCommerce.
Indeed you can. WooCommerce has REST API that provides access to any data you need. You can find the technical documents here.
One of the main differences is that WooCommerce comes with an authentication method ( so you don’t need to add a method like you did here ).
Lets assume you are familiar with Google Sheets and Google Scripts ( if not go back to the first tutorial and at least do the basics of getting posts ).
And if you are reading this, we will assume you have a working copy of WooCommerce with some data in it ( ideally a test system to play with ) if so we a re set to get going.
Lets cover authentication first
Most useful data from WooCommerce is likely to be private, e.g. Orders or updating Product prices, so whilst the other tutorials started with getting public data and moved on to private data, lets dive straight in ( another reason to at least have covered the basics here ).
Set up WooCommerce keys
Login to and go to WooCommerce settings > advanced > api and create a key, with read/write permission and save a copy as you will need this for the script.
Add the code to get the credentials
Editing the script is from the spreadsheet Tools>Script Editor
Open this up and replace the content with
function onInstall(e) {
onOpen(e);
}
function onOpen(e) {
// setup a custom menu
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().createAddonMenu()
.addItem('Get Orders', 'getPosts')
.addItem('Set Domain Name credentials', 'getDomain')
.addToUi();
setupSheet();
}
function getDomain() {
var html = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('credentials')
.setWidth(200)
.setHeight(200);
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(html, 'Connect to WordPress');
}
Save this script giving it a name you can remember and makes sense e.g. Woo Orders.
What this does is
1. Sets up a menu under Add Ons with two options – Get Orders and Set Domain Name Credentials
2. Defines a function that runs a file called credential.html , which will contain our input form
In the script editor, go to File>New>HTML file and create a file named credentials.html with your html form code as followsSave your script. Go back to your spreadsheets and refresh. Under add-ons you should now have a new menu e.g. Woo Orders where you can input the credentials you set up above.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/script/css/add-ons1.css">
<form id="loginform">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="domain">Domain inc. https://</label>
<input type="text" id="domain" name="domain">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="key">Consumer Key</label>
<input type="text" id="key" name="key">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="secret">Consumer Secret</label>
<input type="password" id="secret" name="secret">
</div>
<div class="block form-group">
<button class="action" onclick="google.script.run.processCredentials(this.form)" >Submit</button>
</div>
</form>
Getting the Orders into the spreadsheet.
First we want a function that will retrieve the form data (credentials) and store it in persistent data storage with the form
function processCredentials(myForm) {
PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().setProperty('domain', myForm.domain);
PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().setProperty('consumer_key', myForm.key);
PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().setProperty('consumer_secret', myForm.secret);
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().alert('Saved, hit OK and the script will try to get the products, this may take a while');
getOrders();
}
This function also kicks of the main function getting the orders.
The getOrders function has to get the orders in chunks ( or pages as we should call them ) as there are limits on the number of orders that can be return in one go, this is to protect your server mainly.
The function first check to see if we have stored credentials.
Then loops through at 50 orders per page.
Then finally outputs the buffer built up.
function getOrders(){
if ( PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('domain') == null ) {
getDomain();
return;
}
setupSheet();
// loop here as we need get back posts in chunks, Rest API max is 100 post
var offset = 0;
var per_page = 50;
var page = [];
var values = [];
do {
page=getPage(offset,per_page);
offset+=page.length;
for (i = 0; i < page.length; i++) {
values.push(page[i]);
}
} while ( page.length > 0 );
//output range
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
var range = sheet.getRange(2, 1, values.length, 15);
range.setValues(values);
}
The main API call is made in the next function. The authorisation is using basic auth – but sometime there are issues if JWT token are also in use or the server has a problem, so an alternative is query string for key & secret, see the commented out API line.
It retrieves the data and pushes it into a structure. HereI have a double loop so i can output multi line items.
function getPage(offset,per_page) {
// gets posts in chunks of per_page
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi(); // used for error messages
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var page = [];
// set up authorisation
var headers = {
"Authorization" : "Basic " + Utilities.base64Encode(PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_key')+':'+PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_secret'))
};
var options = {
'method': 'get',
'headers': headers,
"contentType" : "application/json",
'muteHttpExceptions': false
}
var apiHost = PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('domain')+'/wp-json';
// altenative to basic auth in case that doesn't work nicely e.g. you have JWT token plugin too.
// url = apiHost + '/wc/v2/orders?per_page='+per_page+'&offset='+offset+ '&consumer_key='+PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_key')+'&consumer_secret='+PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_secret');
//
url = apiHost + '/wc/v2/orders?per_page='+per_page+'&offset='+offset;
try {
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
var data = JSON.parse(response);
// loop through the map and output to sheet
for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
page.push([data[i].number,
data[i].date_created,
data[i].status,
data[i].currency,
data[i].shipping_total,
data[i].total,
data[i].customer_id,
data[i].billing.first_name,
data[i].billing.last_name,
data[i].billing.email,
'1',
data[i].line_items[0].id,
data[i].line_items[0].name,
data[i].line_items[0].quantity,
data[i].line_items[0].total
]);
// now do any additional line items push a line with blanks if required
for (j = 1; j < data[i].line_items.length; j++ ) {
page.push([' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
j+1,
data[i].line_items[j].id,
data[i].line_items[j].name,
data[i].line_items[j].quantity,
data[i].line_items[j].total
]);
}
}
} catch(error) {
var result = ui.alert( error.toString());
return 0;
}
return page;
}
The other function, not covered yet is setupSheet all it is doing is clearing the sheet and adding titles.
function setupSheet() {
// just clear sheet and set & style headings
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
// set the tab to post - just for neatness
var sheetname = ss.getSheets()[0].setName('Orders');
// clear the sheet
var range = ss.getDataRange();
range.clear();
//set headings
ss.getRange('A1').setValue('Order Number');
ss.getRange('B1').setValue('Date Created');
ss.getRange('C1').setValue('Status');
ss.getRange('D1').setValue('Currency');
ss.getRange('E1').setValue('Shipping');
ss.getRange('F1').setValue('Grand Total');
ss.getRange('G1').setValue('Customer ID');
ss.getRange('H1').setValue('Billing First Name');
ss.getRange('I1').setValue('Billing Last Name');
ss.getRange('J1').setValue('Billing email');
ss.getRange('K1').setValue('Order Line');
ss.getRange('L1').setValue('Item ID');
ss.getRange('M1').setValue('Item Name');
ss.getRange('N1').setValue('Item Qty');
ss.getRange('O1').setValue('Item Totatl');
ss.getRange('A1:O1').setFontWeight('bold');
ss.getRange('A1:O1').setFontStyle('italic');
}
And that is it.
This is the full script in one go
function onInstall(e) {
onOpen(e);
}
function onOpen(e) {
// setup a custom menu
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().createAddonMenu()
.addItem('Get Orders', 'getOrders')
.addItem('Set Domain Name credentials', 'getDomain')
.addToUi();
setupSheet();
}
function getDomain() {
var html = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('credentials')
.setWidth(200)
.setHeight(200);
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(html, 'Connect to WordPress');
}
function processCredentials(myForm) {
PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().setProperty('domain', myForm.domain);
PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().setProperty('consumer_key', myForm.key);
PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().setProperty('consumer_secret', myForm.secret);
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().alert('Saved, hit OK and the script will try to get the order, this may take a while');
getOrders();
}
function getOrders(){
if ( PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('domain') == null ) {
getDomain();
return;
}
setupSheet();
// loop here as we need get back posts in chunks, Rest API max is 100 post
var offset = 0;
var per_page = 50;
var page = [];
var values = [];
do {
page=getPage(offset,per_page);
offset+=page.length;
for (i = 0; i < page.length; i++) {
values.push(page[i]);
}
} while ( page.length > 0 );
//output range
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
var range = sheet.getRange(2, 1, values.length, 15);
range.setValues(values);
}
function getPage(offset,per_page) {
// gets posts in chunks of per_page
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi(); // used for error messages
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var page = [];
// set up authorisation
var headers = {
"Authorization" : "Basic " + Utilities.base64Encode(PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_key')+':'+PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_secret'))
};
var options = {
'method': 'get',
'headers': headers,
"contentType" : "application/json",
'muteHttpExceptions': false
}
var apiHost = PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('domain')+'/wp-json';
// altenative to basic auth in case that doesn't work nicely e.g. you have JWT token plugin too.
// url = apiHost + '/wc/v2/orders?per_page='+per_page+'&offset='+offset+ '&consumer_key='+PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_key')+'&consumer_secret='+PropertiesService.getDocumentProperties().getProperty('consumer_secret');
//
url = apiHost + '/wc/v2/orders?per_page='+per_page+'&offset='+offset;
try {
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
var data = JSON.parse(response);
// loop through the map and output to sheet
for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
page.push([data[i].number,
data[i].date_created,
data[i].status,
data[i].currency,
data[i].shipping_total,
data[i].total,
data[i].customer_id,
data[i].billing.first_name,
data[i].billing.last_name,
data[i].billing.email,
'1',
data[i].line_items[0].id,
data[i].line_items[0].name,
data[i].line_items[0].quantity,
data[i].line_items[0].total
]);
// now do any additional line items push a line with blanks if required
for (j = 1; j < data[i].line_items.length; j++ ) {
page.push([' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
' ',
j+1,
data[i].line_items[j].id,
data[i].line_items[j].name,
data[i].line_items[j].quantity,
data[i].line_items[j].total
]);
}
}
} catch(error) {
var result = ui.alert( error.toString());
return 0;
}
return page;
}
function setupSheet() {
// just clear sheet and set & style headings
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
// set the tab to post - just for neatness
var sheetname = ss.getSheets()[0].setName('Orders');
// clear the sheet
var range = ss.getDataRange();
range.clear();
//set headings
ss.getRange('A1').setValue('Order Number');
ss.getRange('B1').setValue('Date Created');
ss.getRange('C1').setValue('Status');
ss.getRange('D1').setValue('Currency');
ss.getRange('E1').setValue('Shipping');
ss.getRange('F1').setValue('Grand Total');
ss.getRange('G1').setValue('Customer ID');
ss.getRange('H1').setValue('Billing First Name');
ss.getRange('I1').setValue('Billing Last Name');
ss.getRange('J1').setValue('Billing email');
ss.getRange('K1').setValue('Order Line');
ss.getRange('L1').setValue('Item ID');
ss.getRange('M1').setValue('Item Name');
ss.getRange('N1').setValue('Item Qty');
ss.getRange('O1').setValue('Item Totatl');
ss.getRange('A1:O1').setFontWeight('bold');
ss.getRange('A1:O1').setFontStyle('italic');
}
Hi.. thank you for this. it helped me a lot. however, I’m making a multivendor site. I need to add a column for vendors with the order details.
this is the documentation
I’m glad this article has help you a lot. I hope you get your column added OK.
Exception: Request failed for …pangrice. returned code 401. Truncated server response: {“code”:”woocommerce_rest_cannot_view”,”message”:”\u62b1\u6b49, \u60a8\u7121\u6b0a\u67e5\u770b\u8cc7\u6599.”,”data”:{“status”:401}} (use muteHttpExceptions option to examine full response)
401 error I cannt fix it
401 is unauthorized, so Woo Commerce is telling you your API key is wrong.
First try creating a new WooCommerce API key.
Is this script still working?
I did a try but no orders are loading at all.
The credentials are working (I think) because I got the popup with Authentication, and when I hit “get orders”, the column headers are added to the sheet, but no orders are appearing but also no error at all.
In the top, there is a green “block” that keeps saying “script is being executed….. CANCEL ” and a close button.
But it stay there for infinite time.
Is there somewhere I can check/troubleshoot why it’s not loading order details?
Thanks!
Thank you for taking a look.
I have just re-loaded that script – exactly as written on the blog post – and indeed there is a problem, for me it did finish, but after repeating the same order multiple times, so there seems to be an issue of the loop not advancing correctly.
I will debug it at a future point, but if you spot the issue first let me know. I’ll add a header to the post warning people – so they don’t spend time …
Hello Alan,
If you can let me know how I can find some kind of (error) log what is happening in background, I can troubleshoot and help you find a fix, but I don’t know where or how. This is my first time I’m getting into Google Scripting, I’m not that familiar with the interface yet.
But if I can see some log output, I can track down the cause.
Alan, do you happen to know how much time this script need to fetch ~50 orders?
Because in your article you somewhere mention “this may take a while”. Are we talking seconds, minutes, …?
I’m trying with a new fresh demo setup and 55 something dummy orders.
With Postman API, I get results back instantly, your script returns nothing at all.
While you say it just finish fine at your end, it seems to be doing nothing at all on my end except showing a green pad “script is running” like forever.
It would be convenient if it somewhere can just output some console log or something so I can check what it’s doing.
Alan, did you find a solution yet? I’m eager to try it out but it doesn’t render any records at all for me. I managed to get some kind of log, and in the log I can see data from the WooCommerce instance, but nothing is rendered in the rows…
Thanks
How can I change this so it pulls all woocommerce product details instead of orders?
You can modify the call instead of orders to retrieve products
If you look in function getPage you will see the api call ( currently url = apiHost + ‘/wc/v2/orders?per_page=’+per_page+’&offset=’+offset; )
One thing to consider is whilst you can list products – if you want additional info like product attributes, product categories, product shiiping classes, you may need to build in additional loops with additional API calls.
The API docs are here https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#list-all-products
Hi,
I am trying this but am getting authentification errors. I have sucessfully done your get post trial as well. Very nice!
It is a 401 error and it says that i need to specify app name as a parameter. Is that something new that woocommerce has added?
I am reading the API and it seems they ask for parameters such as app name.
https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#rest-api-keys
And just to be sure, the URL to specify is https//domainname.com/wc-auth/v1/authorize, correct?
Hi,
My example doesn’t use an authorization end point ( https//domainname.com/wc-auth/v1/authorize) ( and it also is using v2 or the api ) so I’m not sure what you are attempting to do.
The example I use uses ‘basic auth’ over https in the headers as per the API docs ref: https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/wp-api-v1.html#authentication-over-https
Thanks for the quick reply!
Ok, i have corrected the domain end point yet this is the error i get:
Exception: Request failed for https://domainname.com returned code 401. Truncated server response: {“code”:”woocommerce_rest_cannot_view”,”message”:”Sorry, you cannot list resources.”,”data”:{“status”:401}} (use muteHttpExceptions option to examine full response)
I have tried using a good handful of different API keys and secrets now and I am pretty sure they were copy pasted correctly.
Could this be a problem with my Host?
Just following up here, I don’t think its my host.
I have pasted the following into the browser and i dont get an error (though no content):
https://www.domainname.com/wp-json/wc/v2/products/attributes?consumer_key=ck_1234567890&consumer_secret=cs_1234567890
My API key appears as having been used as well in the woocommerce REST API settings, so I think its not a problem with my host.
What could be going on?
Why are you getting no output? Do you have no product attributes? Have you used browser tools to inspect the return code -are you still getting 401 unauthorised.
You need to check you can get data – use curl as per the api docs first https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/wp-api-v2.html#list-all-product-attributes
The server is talking to you & woo commerce is talking to you – 401 = not authorised – “Sorry, you cannot list resources.” so itlooks like Woo is saying you don’t have the right permissions. Has the user you created the API key got a high enough permission?
Okay,
i had to edit my htaccess file and add a line about http authentification:
# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between `BEGIN WordPress` and `END WordPress` are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
After that, it goes into the infinite loop and eventually it loaded data from the database several times, so i would recommend this for concept only as mentioned.
Actually for this i ended up using a webhook to get my order data into sheets. Might use an API in the future for obtaining and editing product lists, but this script still has the infinite loop problem and the authentification bit.
Thanks Alan!