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Query BigCommerce Data from Node.js
The API Server exposes Web services that allow connectivity to your data. Use the OData endpoint of the CData API Server to execute CRUD queries to BigCommerce data from Node.js.
The CData API Server, when paired with the ADO.NET Provider for BigCommerce, exposes BigCommerce data (or data from any of 200+ other ADO.NET Providers) as an OData endpoint, which can be queried from Node.js using simple HTTP requests. This article shows how to use the API Server to request JSON-formatted BigCommerce data in Node.js.
Set Up the API Server
Follow the steps below to begin producing secure BigCommerce OData services:
Deploy
The API Server runs on your own server. On Windows, you can deploy using the stand-alone server or IIS. On a Java servlet container, drop in the API Server WAR file. See the help documentation for more information and how-tos.
The API Server is also easy to deploy on Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, and Heroku.
Connect to BigCommerce
After you deploy the API Server and the ADO.NET Provider for BigCommerce, provide authentication values and other connection properties needed to connect to BigCommerce by clicking Settings -> Connections and adding a new connection in the API Server administration console.
BigCommerce authentication is based on the standard OAuth flow. To authenticate, you must initially create an app via the Big Commerce developer platform where you can obtain an OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL. These three parameters will be set as connection properties to your driver.
Additionally, in order to connect to your BigCommerce Store, you will need your StoreId. To find your Store Id please follow these steps:
- Log in to your BigCommerce account.
- From the Home Page, select Advanced Settings > API Accounts.
- Click Create API Account.
- A text box named API Path will appear on your screen.
- Inside you can see a URL of the following structure: https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/{Store Id}/v3.
- As demonstrated above, your Store Id will be between the 'stores/' and '/v3' path paramters.
- Once you have retrieved your Store Id you can either click Cancel or proceed in creating an API Account in case you do not have one already.
You can then choose the BigCommerce entities you want to allow the API Server access to by clicking Settings -> Resources.
Authorize API Server Users
After determining the OData services you want to produce, authorize users by clicking Settings -> Users. The API Server uses authtoken-based authentication and supports the major authentication schemes. Access can also be restricted based on IP address; all IP addresses except the local machine are restricted by default. You can authenticate as well as encrypt connections with SSL.
Consume BigCommerce OData Feeds from Node.js
OData feeds are easy to work with in Node.js. You can use the HTTP client in Node.js to request JSON-formatted data from the API Server's OData endpoint. After making the request, you can construct the body of the response and call the JSON.parse() function to parse it into records.
The code below will make an authenticated request for Customers data. The example URL below applies a simple filter that searches for records with a value of Bob in the FirstName column.
var http = require('http');
http.get({
protocol: "http:",
hostname: "MyServer.com",
port: MyPort,
path: "/api.rsc/Customers?$filter=" + encodeURIComponent("FirstName eq 'Bob'"),
auth: 'MyUser:MyAuthtoken'
},
function(res) {
var body = '';
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
body += chunk;
});
res.on('end', function() {
console.log(body);
var jsonData = JSON.parse(body);
});
}).on('error', function(e) {
console.log("Error: ", e);
});
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