Hi there! I have set up a webhook that will call my server anytime there is an update on a shop’s product. It’s working nicely but I would like to know if it’s possible to make this webhook not call my server when the updates was not made by the shop’s owner directly but through shopify’s API. Th…

Hi, Basically I’ve setup webhooks for when a user creates or updates a product. This webhook calls my server and updates the state of my app which is tracking those changes. But sometimes my app is the one initiating those product creates & updates through a call to the Shopify api. In these si…

Hi, I don’t think deleting & re-creating webhook is a good solution. But sometimes my app is the one initiating those product creates & updates> through a call to the Shopify api> In this case, you can add a custom field named “actor” with value “API”, so that it’s easy for you to filter if the…

Sounds like an interesting solution yes, I didn’t know you could arbitrarily create product fields like that, aren’t you supposed to respect the fields listed in the Product API payload when you create/update a product via the API ?

I’ve tried but yeah it seems Shopify doesn’t include this custom field inside the webhook call.. Here is the webhook call payload from the doc: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/2022-10/resources/webhook#event-topics If you check the products/create topic there seems to be a restricted list …

Hi, Create a custom field as a Shopify Metafields You can subscribe to get the Metafields inside webhook, please refer to this link . Please try again.

Ah yes so you need to register metafields etc, it’s quite a process ! This can do the trick for Creates, but this is not suitable for Updates because once I set “actor”: “API” for a product update made through the API, it will stay with this value forever even when more recent updates were made by …

Or that would mean any time the user makes an update to a Product he should also update the Actor metafield value from “API” to “UI” which is definitely a terrible UX.

Hi, update the Actor metafield value from “API” to “UI” It would be updated by webhooks handler instead of end-user. It means, after you receive an event from webhooks with Actor: API, you have to do 2 things: 1st, do your business work 2nd, revert Actor empty or UI or whatever you want. …

But the webhook can be triggered by both UI & API ! I need to know who has triggered that webhook in order to set in the metafields who has triggered that webhook in order to know who has triggered that webhook. It’s an infinite loop ://

I appreciate the time you take to look for a solution here though ! Thanks for this man ! I’m just frustrated by this missing feature in the Webhook api :))

Stop webhooks call for product updates originating from shopify API

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bernardomontoya May 23, 2024, 1:21am 23

I’m having the same issue here. Any updates on how did you manage to solve it?

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Stop webhooks call for product updates originating from shopify API

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