Hi there. I’m building an app that needs to know if a store has an email newsletter or not. Is there an admin API for this?
Thanks!
Newsletters are a merchant’s separate concern from their store. Therefore, there is no property in Shopify that would directly answer your question of whether they have a newsletter or not. If you know their domain, just write a homepage scraper looking for the word newsletter and a form that would submit an input element with email. If you find that, your guess would be fairly positive the store has a newsletter.
If you were brave and had permission, you could scan the Customers looking for those that accept marketing. If you find any, then you know the store has permission to email market the Customer, but that is not necessarily a newsletter. So again, you’re stuffed there, having nothing but the scrape to go on.
So scrape. Simple enough code. No API calls needed.