How to access brand logo information without using StoreFront API?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

Goal: retrieve a store’s brand logo using brand information, ideally without relying on the Storefront API. The Brand object exists in Storefront API, but access requires a sales channel.

Constraints: an existing app can’t enable a sales channel; creating a new app is disruptive. Admin API (REST/GraphQL) does not expose brand info/logo.

Attempted workaround: delegated access tokens (per Shopify docs) returned 401 Unauthorized; some scope combinations returned 422 Unprocessable Entity. ShopifySharp lacks delegated token support.

Impact: no viable method found to read brand logo outside Storefront API. Using Storefront API is blocked by sales channel requirements.

Latest update: the feature was back-burnered due to low priority vs. effort. The author may open a ticket with Shopify but doubts this forum is effective for feature requests.

Status: unresolved and open. Key open question: whether Shopify will add Admin API or alternative support for brand data (especially logos).

Summarized with AI on January 28. AI used: gpt-5.
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We’d like to pull the store’s logo from the brand information, we can snag it in the StoreFront API from the brand object here:

https://shopify.dev/api/storefront/2022-10/objects/Brand

but this presents a list of problems:

  • We cannot pull a storefront API token, because we do not have a sales channel enabled on our app
    • You cannot enable a sales channel on an already deployed app
    • Deploying a new app is extremely disruptive to already deployed and established applications
  • According to the documentation, we can use delegated access tokens (see https://shopify.dev/api/storefront#authentication and https://shopify.dev/api/usage/authentication#getting-started-with- authenticated-access, but…
    • No matter what I do with a delegated token, I get 401 unauthorized from Shopify’s API’s
    • Some scope combinations return 422 unprocessable entries
    • (Not entirely Shopify’s fault), support for delegated tokens doesn’t exist in ShopifySharp, ugh
  • There is no way to read this from the admin API, REST nor GraphQL

Am I missing something or is brand support really shallow? Is there a plan to add better support?

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@wdroush

I have exactly the same problem and understand you. How did you solve this?

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Nope, we ended up back-burnering the need for this on our platform, it’s annoying because it’s nice polish but it isn’t really a required feature for our main flow.

We may revisit it later/open a ticket with Shopify regarding this since we don’t have a great pipeline for feature requests or platform issues (this community isn’t really a good way to manage that), but that’s a whole larger task and we’re not really sure the juice is worth the squeeze for our need (at least currently).