Can Shopify API handle bulk product creation in a single request?

Other Questions Shopify
1

I’m working on integrating my inventory system with Shopify. I noticed the API lets me grab up to 250 items at once. But when it comes to adding new stuff, it looks like I have to do it one by one. Am I missing something here?

If I’ve got a big store with thousands of products, downloading everything is pretty quick. But uploading? That’s a whole different story. It would take forever to add everything one at a time.

For example, if I wanted to add 20,000 products to 200 collections, it would take:

  • 20,000 calls to create products
  • 200 calls to make collections
  • 20,000 calls to link products to collections

That’s a ton of API calls! It would take hours to finish with the current rate limits.

Is there a faster way to do this? Maybe a bulk upload option I’m not seeing? It would be super helpful for syncing with other systems.

Any tips or tricks would be great. Thanks!

2

I have encountered similar issues when trying to handle bulk product creation with Shopify. Unfortunately, there is no endpoint designed to process a large number of products in a single request. Instead, one practical approach is to use the Bulk Operations API, which handles large datasets asynchronously and can support up to 250,000 objects. In addition, employing parallel processing and leveraging the GraphQL Admin API can improve efficiency in handling mutations. Shopify’s CSV import feature or reliable third-party tools can also help manage initial large-scale uploads, provided that API rate limits are observed.