Bulk update multiple products with multiple variants

GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting
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Hello Everyone,
I trying to update the prices of several thousands of products with multiple variants. I know the existence of productVariantsBulkUpdate, but this allows to update a single product with multiple variants.

Is there a way to update multiple products with many variants in a single request?

Any help here is appreciated.

Best regards,
Ashwath

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You might be able to use a bulk mutation, linked below, that mutation seems to be supported. I don’t know why Shopify put “bulk” in that operation name because it seems to have no relationship with bulk operations. Basically you create a huge file where each line is a jsonified set of arguments to pass to productVariantsBulkUpdate and then send that file to shopify and it calls productVariantsBulkUpdate repeatedly for you.

SEE: bulk operations

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Indeed, I would be able to run productVariantsBulkUpdate via bulkOperationRunMutation. Thanks.

I was in an impression that bulkOperations supported only to retrieve paginated data.

Step 1: Stage file upload
Step 2: Upload file to the staged target
Step 3: Run bulk mutation
Step 4: Poll for status

See: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/bulk-operations/imports#how-bulk-importing-data-works
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