How to find these kind of ID's: "Z2lkOi8vc2hvcGlmeS9Qcm9kdWN0Lzc4NTc5ODkzODQ="

[Benjamin_Anders]

In the JS BUY SDK examples, they use id's that are really long, but when I read the (outdated) short introduction to the BUY SDK, they use the regular, short numeric ID's found in the product url's in Shopify's admin.

So I have tried using the regular ID's in my code with no luck. How do I find or convert to these long clunky ID's so I can fetch my products?

And, Shopify! Please add an explanation about this in the introduction in the future!

[Jason]

Base64 decode it:

gid://shopify/Product/7857989384

[Benjamin_Anders]

Thanks for the reply!

If I want to pick a particular product using the ID i've found in the admin url. How do I turn the ID into that base64 string?

I could take this: 7857989384...

Manually add this: "gid://shopify/Product/"...

And then base64 encode it. But that seems very clunky. Is there no other way to fetch a product by ID?