The https://help.shopify.com/txt/product_taxonomy/en.txt is not available - 404

[binarydata22]

According to some answers, like https://community.shopify.com/c/graphql-basics-and/creating-a-collection-with-a-product-taxonomy-nod... I should get the ProductTaxonomyNode IDs from a text file https://help.shopify.com/txt/product_taxonomy/en.txt

However, the file is not available anymore. Where should I get these IDs from?

[AcidPi]

Hi @binarydata22 

Is this what your after?

https://shopify.github.io/product-taxonomy/releases/unstable/

https://github.com/Shopify/product-taxonomy/tree/main/dist/en

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/details/product-category

Regards

[binarydata22]

Not exactly. We were parsing this txt file and used numeric IDs from it. Each line in the file had the following format:

156 - Apparel & Accessories > Clothing > Baby & Toddler Clothing > Baby & Toddler Swimwear

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20240315110540/https://help.shopify.com/txt/product_taxonomy/en.txt

And I guess the IDs were referring to the ProductTaxonomyNode entity, i.e. gid://shopify/ProductTaxonomyNode/156

This file https://github.com/Shopify/product-taxonomy/blob/main/dist/en/categories.txt, however, has a different format, entity, and ID structure and is referring to the TaxonomyCategory entity: gid://shopify/TaxonomyCategory/ap-2-1-1-2-3

So I assume these are different things.

[ShopifyDevSup · Accepted solution]

Hi @binarydata22,

We have recently updated and released our new Shopify Product Taxonomy API, and what you are seeing is the new format of the GID's, specifically the ProductTaxonomyNode has been replaced with the TaxonomyCategory type.

The links that @AcidPi has shared above are correct and up to date with our new Taxonomy API resources:
 

• https://shopify.github.io/product-taxonomy/releases/unstable/
  • This is our new Taxonomy Explorer and will show you the updated Taxonomy Categories, Breadcrumbs, and Attributes, along with a mapping to the old ProductTaxonomyNode IDs on the right.
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• https://github.com/Shopify/product-taxonomy  
  • This is the new github repo with the updated taxonomy resources you can use for integration with your apps, and the following can also be used to map the old TaxonomyNode IDs with the new TaxonomyCategory IDs
  • https://github.com/Shopify/product-taxonomy/blob/main/dist/en/integrations/shopify/shopify_2022-02_t... 

Here's also some relevant Shopify.dev documentation for references to the new Taxonomy API objects and queries, and a Shopify.dev Changelog post for the Taxonomy update as well.
 

• Taxonomy API — Shopify developer changelog
• Taxonomy
• TaxonomyCategory
• TaxonomyCategoryAttribute

I hope this helps, and I hope you have a great day 🙂