Using the PrestaShop Web Service -

Table of content

• Using the PrestaShop Web Service

  • Learning how to use the web service

  • Implementations

  • Files

Using the PrestaShop Web Service

PrestaShop enables merchants to give third-party tools access to their shop's database through a CRUD API, otherwise called a web service.

Learning how to use the web service

Documentation

The quickest way to learn the intricacies of the PrestaShop web service is to use the web service one-page documentation.

Tutorial

The slowest but most complete way to learn about the web service is to follow the tutorial.

It demonstrates how to use the PrestaShop web service by creating a CRUD application using the dedicated PHP library.

Implementations

• Manage your PrestaShop website through Open ERP: Prestashop OpenERP Connector by Akretion & CampToCamp (GNU Affero GPLv3)

• A Scala library to access the PrestaShop web service: prestasac by Alex Dean (GNU Affero GPLv3)

• A Python library to access the PrestaShop web service: prestapyt by Guewen Baconnier (GNU Affero GPLv3)

Files

Web service library

The latest version of the PSWebServiceLibrary.php file can be found on our code repository: https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop-webservice-lib/blob/master/PSWebServiceLibrary.php To download the file:

1. Click here to view the raw file: https://raw.github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop-webservice-lib/master/PSWebServiceLibrary.php

2. Copy/paste the file into an empty text local file, using for instance Notepad.

3. Save the file as PSWebServiceLibrary.php

You can also directly download a zip archive of all the files in this repository, including the example files, by clicking here: https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop-webservice-lib/archive/master.zip

Examples files

All the example files can be found on our code repository: https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop-webservice-lib/tree/master/examples