Is there any way to generate random number with liquid shopify?

Technical Q&A
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What is the best way to generate random number with liquid Shopify by avoiding caching ?

Note that “If code contains a date object, the value will be the current time of when the page was last generated from the template, not when the page is presented to a user if caching or static site generation is involved” as per the Shopify. It will return a similar number every time.

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Hi @SocialAutoPost ,

Because Shopify doesn’t have a random function, if you want to randomize a number you can just rely on the date. Refer code:

{% assign min = 1 %}
{% assign max = 100 %}
{% assign diff = max | minus: min %}
{% assign randomNumber = "now" | date: "%N" | modulo: diff | plus: min %}

Hope it is clear to you.

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Thank you for your reply, worked for me. @LitExtension :slightly_smiling_face: