Call Shopify's Product Image Background Remover via API

Topic summary

A developer is automating product creation through Shopify’s API and wants to programmatically trigger Shopify’s built-in background removal tool for product images.

Current workflow:

  • Create product via API
  • Add photos via API
  • Remove image backgrounds (currently manual)

The question: Is there an API endpoint to automate the background removal step?

The user notes they haven’t found any documentation covering this functionality and is seeking confirmation on whether such an API capability exists.

Summarized with AI on November 2. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hi, I’m currently using Shopifys API to generate our new products. I would also like to be able to use the API to call the background remover tool that Shopify offers, rather than processing this step manually. Essentially steps would look like:

1. Create product

2. Add photos

3. Remove background of images.

I cant see any documentation about this, but was wondering if it’s possible or not?