In this blog, Magento expert explains the very simple steps to RUN your Magento 1 REST API.
What is the REST API? To obtain it easy, REST API represents a set of functions to the developers that can perform requests and receive responses.
We assume that you already have created the new custom consumer and assign the role to it.
From that user, you will get the consumer key and consumer secret key which is useful on the REST API.
Planning for REST API
These steps are designed by Magento certified developer and it’s required utilizing REST API resources:
- Set up permissions for REST resource operations from the Magento Admin Panel.
- Configure the properties for different users types in Magento Admin Panel. Total 3 different types of users in accessing the data: Admin, Customer, and Guest. Admin is the backend logged in user, Customer is the fronted logged in user, and Guest is a non-logged in fronted user.
Planning REST API for the Third-Party Application
- Register the third-party application (Consumer) in Magento Admin Panel.
- The third-party application will utilize the provided consumer credentials to call the Magento store for getting the access token to access the data.
Using Rest API if you want to get all products, orders, customers, etc. data first you need to authorize Magento application or in other words, you need to get the access token of your Magento store.
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To achieve those authentication endpoints you need to follow 3 steps:
Step 1: Magento initiate
Method: POST
URL: http://your-domain.com/oauth/initiate
Parameters:
oauth_callback=http://example.com
oauth_consumer_key=d27be60b6589a812171ff9e8e734fea2
(consumer key of user which you created via admin panel)
Output:
oauth_token=e2b927210274aee0b40088e7b50b7012
oauth_token_secret=f9e555015311e528db159fe1df69aa21
oauth_callback_confirmed=true
Step 2: Authorize
Method: POST
URL: http://your-domain.com/admin/oauth_authorize
Parameters:
oauth_token=e2b927210274aee0b40088e7b50b7012
oauth_token_secret=f9e555015311e528db159fe1df69aa21
oauth_callback_confirmed=true
Output:
To running the URL in the browser it opens the Magento admin panel.
You have to log in and then authorize the request.
Once authorized, note down the URL in the address bar:
https://your-domain.com/?oauth_token=258898520e74107d84d7f5bb5&oauth_verifier=112asd21654as684d0
Step 3: Final Permanent Token & Token Secret
Method: POST
URL: http://your-domain.com/oauth/token
Parameters:
oauth_verifier=e2b927210274aee0b40088e7b50b7012
oauth_consumer_key=d27be60b6589a812171ff9e8e734fea2
auth_consumer_secret_key=d27be60b6589a812171ff9e8e734fea2
oauth_token=e2b927210274aee0b40088e7b50b7012
oauth_token_secret=f9e555015311e528db159fe1df69aa21
Output:
consumer_key: 1cc517b6cb7594c7fc5d57a596**
consumer_secret: 2dfbb639db9d15bee86e47cf4**
oauth_token: 5aac4eac990cc680375f4a724**
oauth_token_secret: 0256cb206666e8bd7684d6da4**
The final permanent token and token secret to be used to access Magento Rest API Resources like products, orders, customers, etc.
The above-mentioned tokens are to be sent as Oauth1.0 Authorization Headers along Oauth_version as 1.0 and randomly generated nonce, timestamp, and oauth_signature.
Let’s see an example of getting products.
Method: GET
URL: http://your-domain.com/api/rest/products
Parameters:
content-type = application/json
Auth_headers:
Authorization = OAuth oauth_signature_method=”HMAC-SHA1″,
oauth_nonce = rltCs
oauth_timestamp = 1533556177
oauth_consumer_key = d27be60b6589a812171ff9e8e734fea2
oauth_token = 24471d629f7ce06ba527fc5f520b4
oauth_version = 1.0
oauth_signature = GB68762cd2348JFK61986sd
Note: nonce and timestamp are randomly generated unique values.
Output:
Return the list of all product data in JSON.
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