Shopify admin api

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Topic summary

Main issue: Calling the Shopify Admin REST endpoint /admin/api/2023-01/orders.json returned an empty list (“orders”: ). A shop name change (capitalization/space) had occurred but was reverted; uncertainty if related.

Key checks and suggestions:

  • Verify the exact myshopify.com domain is correct; a mismatch typically yields a different error, but worth confirming.

Resolution/updated finding:

  • The base endpoint returns only current unfulfilled/open orders (i.e., not all orders). This explained the empty result.
  • Adding the query parameter status=any returns recent orders regardless of status.
    • Without filter: https://{shop_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/orders.json
    • With filter: https://{shop_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/orders.json?status=any

Outcome: After using status=any, orders appeared as expected. No further issues reported.

Status: Resolved. The empty response was due to default filtering, not the shop name change.

Summarized with AI on January 30. AI used: gpt-5.
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i am attempting to request orders using shopify admin api. my orders.json response is coming back blank.

{
“orders”:
}

This was working earlier today but my partner changed the shop store. but it has been changed back. (he capitalized and added a space)

any idea why this would happen or how to fix it?

2

Is it still returning zero orders?

Double check the shops myshopify.com domain to make sure that its correct, though you probably would receive a different error in that case…

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Thank you for asking! I couldn’t figure out how to reply to my own message after I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong. using a simple python url get request would return blank orders json file. That’s because this API only returns current unfulfilled orders!

url = f"https://{shop_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/orders.json"

I was able to ask Shopify help and the nice person was able to find this to be able to show any recent orders

url = f"https://{shop_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/orders.json?status=any"

I hope this response will help anyone in the future that is also having this issue.