I’m having trouble getting the section rendering API to work properly. I’ve read through the docs here for the Section Rendering API: https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/sections/section-rendering-api I can get the Section Rendering API to return just a section using Javascript like so: fetch(‘/?sec…

I think it’s quite normal, as you requested the rendered html of the homepage (root) and there is no product/collection in the liquid context of the homepage, as they aren’t global objects that are present everywhere… I suggest you to request a product page by its handle and see if this work for ex…

Thanks @BenAbbes ! That answers my questions 1 and 2 above. The Section Rendering API examples all hit the root so that tripped me up. So that just leaves 3. Is there a way to pass additional variables to sections called by the Section Rendering API? In a perfect world I’d like to be able to pass …

Hi @TomDavies , regarding your 3 question, let’s be honest the “Section Rendering Api” is not really an “Api”. The Fetch api is a web standard api that is present in the browser context everywhere, All that shopify offers by this so-called Api is a query parameter which allows you to render the liqu…

Thanks @BenAbbes . I read about that workaround before I posted this thread. That workaround is not viable for a production setup though since Shopify caches the responses. You may end up with a cached version of the query parameters which makes this not an option for me. Shopify does process a sel…

A bit late but I just had same problem, solution is simple, just pass a variant parameter and switch it to a random value in each time, Shopify will ignore the cache if ?variant is present to make sure the latest inventory level is sent back :slightly_smiling_face:

@TomDavies I have a section on product page that has products that are related to main products’s variants. when variant chnages this section products should also chnage. I am trying to use section rndring api but its giving me 404 error here is the api i am using fetch(‘/products/’+this.productHa…

The product URL should be “/product/” not “/products/”. Also, the variant param is “variant” not “variant_id”. You can test the section rendering URL directly in your web browser for easier testing.

How to use the Section Rendering API?

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FaizaBashir May 3, 2024, 7:26am 7

Hi, I have same problem, can share the final api with parameter that you use?

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