# StoreFront API

**URL:** <https://community.shopify.com/t/storefront-api/32791>\
**Category:** Custom Storefronts\
**Created:** [January 21, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.shopify.com/t/storefront-api/32791 "2021-01-21T21:52:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

## AI-generated summary

Using the Storefront API for a custom Shopify storefront, the main issue is how to retrieve a logged-in customer’s existing data after authentication with `customerCreate` and `customerAccessTokenCreate`.

Key point:
- The need is not customer creation or updating data, but reading personal information tied to a customer access token.
- The requested data includes profile details, addresses, and payment methods.

Current development:
- A reply pointed to a tutorial for updating customer data through the Storefront API.
- That response did not address the core question, and a clarification was posted stating that the problem is specifically about fetching customer information, not modifying it.

Status:
- No concrete solution was provided in the discussion.
- The question remains open and unresolved, with a follow-up asking whether retrieving customer data via the access token is supported and, if so, how to do it.

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**Author:** ![tomasperalta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@tomasperalta](https://community.shopify.com/u/tomasperalta)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.shopify.com/t/storefront-api/32791/1 "2021-01-21T21:52:27Z")

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Hey! I’m building an e-commerce using Shopify’s API to consume data from my products and customers.

I’m using Shopify’s Storefront API to create new customers and authenticating them, using the `customerCreate` and `customerAccessTokenCreate` mutations respectively. So far, so good.

In like any other modern application, I need to show the user its personal information stored on the platform: personal details, addresses, payment methods, etc. But, so far, I haven’t found how to do this using the access token.

Can you please help me?

Thanks,  
Tom.

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**Author:** ![vix](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/shopifyforum/user_avatar/community.shopify.com/vix/32/86808_2.png) [@vix](https://community.shopify.com/u/vix)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://community.shopify.com/t/storefront-api/32791/2 "2021-01-22T06:32:42Z")

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Tutorial for updating customer data: [https://shopify.dev/tutorials/update-customer-data-with-storefront-api](https://shopify.dev/tutorials/update-customer-data-with-storefront-api)

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**Author:** ![tomasperalta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@tomasperalta](https://community.shopify.com/u/tomasperalta)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://community.shopify.com/t/storefront-api/32791/3 "2021-01-22T10:29:39Z")

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Hi Vix, perhaps I wasn’t too clear: the problem is not _setting_ user’s information, but **GETTING** its information once its logged in and I have its access token.

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**Author:** ![tomasperalta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@tomasperalta](https://community.shopify.com/u/tomasperalta)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.shopify.com/t/storefront-api/32791/4 "2021-01-25T15:58:59Z")

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Hey Vix, did you have the chance to check this? I’d really appreciate the help.

Thanks!