Api request to update product category

[Silviu_Virlan]

I inspected all apis made available by shopify and could not find any that exposes product category. would like to send the taxonomy from my erp to shopify

E.g. for a product of type = hats i want to set programmatically via a put or patch request the category to gid://shopify/TaxonomyCategory/aa-2-17.

Is this supported today? which API?

[Doug_P]

Odd. Were you not able to able to use this? Product { category }

It’s the product mutation so I’m sure that’s it.

[remy727]

@Silviu_Virlan, you can use productSet mutation.

Unable to update Shopify product category via GraphQL productSet mutation

Hey @clothovia - as of API version 2024-04, ProductTaxonomyNode was replaced with TaxonomyCategory (there’s a bit more info on this here). In your mutation you’d want to use something like this: { "input": { "id": "gid://shopify/Product/YOUR_PRODUCT_ID", "category": "gid://shopify/TaxonomyCategory/vp-2-3" } } The category IDs from the site here should be accurate though, but they have changed slightly (I don’t believe that Node ID you used is accurate as of 2024-04) H…

[Donal-Shopify]

Hey @Silviu_Virlan! Remy is spot on here - the category field on productSet is what you need, and the GID format you already have (gid://shopify/TaxonomyCategory/aa-2-17) is correct.

Here’s an example:

mutation {
  productSet(
    input: {
      category: "gid://shopify/TaxonomyCategory/aa-2-17"
    },
    identifier: {
      id: "gid://shopify/Product/YOUR_PRODUCT_ID"
    }
  ) {
    product {
      id
      category {
        id
        name
      }
    }
    userErrors {
      field
      message
    }
  }
}

[Doug_P]

@Donal-Shopify Why would you use productSet for this instead of productUpdate?