Generate access token during webhook event

[ariesbe]

Is there any way that I can generate new access token without the generated "code", during I received a webhook event. Let say I want to update the order based on certain business rule that I have as part of the processing of the event data. Thanks!

[Visely-Team]

Access token can be generated only as part of OAuth phase on app install or later as the merchant should review/accept/reject the request scope sent. Not sure I follow your case, would you provide more details on what you are trying to achieve?

[ariesbe]

Thanks for reply.

I was looking into doing API call during webhook event to update something. So I was looking into generating access token on the fly. Is that possible or the token genrated during installation is the only option? Thanks.

[Visely-Team]

You can't do that on the fly. Access token generation is an interactive process the merchant should give a consent for. How do you register for webhook updates? Are you doing that through admin?

[ariesbe]

Thanks, During merchant installation registration is done programmatically using admin rest api. If I do not have the generated code that was given during installation, would access token generation on the fly would still be possible? Right now I treat the token generated during installation as permanent token, not sure if thats the correct way hence I am looking for other ways to access the API dynamically. I also looking if these would be possible for cloud functions as well. I hope I explain it well. Again, thanks.

[Visely-Team]

The token generated at installation is permanent. It is invalidated only when the merchant uninstalls the app. AFAIK there is no way to programmatically generate a token on the fly, let's see what the community has to say.

[mkarthique]

Hi,

We have an requirement to get the shopId inside a webhook receiving code. 

Like whenever an order is created in the store i need to pass the shopId to some API. So we tried to do a  graphql query (Admin API) to get shopId.But

But i am not able to get accesstoken in the context object. So query is not getting executed and returns error. Is there any way for getting accessToken inside web hook triggering code.

[Visely-Team]

@mkarthique shop id is available in the request header - X-Shopify-Shop-Domain