Accessing Metafield data through admin api

[CalebV]

Hello. I'm developing a custom app for a shopify store and I am trying to access the metafields for each product. I understand that you can access them for individual resources but the feature I am working on would require me to have the metafield data accessible for all products retrieved from the Admin Rest API much like the product is and other object properties. Am I missing something or should I try a different route? This is by far the biggest hurdle for me building this custom app.

[richard-penner]

Hi CalebV! You can think of product metafields as regular product attributes, in the sense that you would fetch them alongside the products. For example, the `products` GraphQL query allows you to specify a `metafield` field, or use the `metafieldsByIdentifiers` field. How are you fetching the products?

[CalebV]

Through the REST admin api. I don’t have any experience with GraphQL 

[richard-penner]

Got it. In this case the REST metafields API is indeed a bit limited for what you are trying to do. I would highly recommend you trying out GraphQL for your use case – you can pull down all products and the desired metafields through a paginated list, all in one query.