Hi Shopify Developer Platform team,
I’m building a merchant-facing performance diagnostic tool for Shopify store owners.
The desired flow is:
merchant enters store URL → authenticates with Shopify as the store owner →
we run Liquid/theme render profiling → merchant receives a business-friendly report
showing render bottlenecks, speed impact, CRO risks, and recommended fixes.
I contacted Shopify Support and they confirmed that:
- shop.storefront-renderer.devtools is an internal Shopify scope
- there is no public approval process for third-party access
- there is no documented Shopify Identity client registration path for this scope
- there is no confirmed third-party server-side token exchange path for the storefront-renderer devtools audience
I understand and respect that boundary. I am not asking to reuse Shopify’s Theme Inspector Chrome extension client ID, extract tokens, or rely on unsupported private behavior.
My question is:
Is there any official or planned way for approved partners/developers to access Liquid render profiling data similar to Shopify Theme Inspector?
Possible acceptable paths could be:
- A public Admin API or Storefront Renderer API for theme profiling
- A partner/private beta
- A theme performance diagnostics API
- A way for merchants to authorize profiling access explicitly
- An official export/import format from Theme Inspector that third-party tools can process
The use case is merchant-facing, consent-based, and performance-focused. We can comply with rate limits, app review, merchant authorization, data retention rules, and Shopify’s API terms.
If this does not exist today, could someone from Shopify confirm whether this is on the roadmap or whether developers should build around public Lighthouse/Core Web Vitals data instead?
Thanks.