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BigCommerce Product Variants API

The Product Variants API from BigCommerce — 2 operation(s) for product variants.

BigCommerce Product Variants API is one of 161 APIs that BigCommerce publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Product Variants. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 12 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 3.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/{store_hash}/v3.

5 operations 2 paths 12 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
3.0.0
Base URL
https://api.example.com
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

BigCommerce Product Variants API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as X-Auth-Token (X-Auth-Token). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • X-Auth-Token — OAuth scopes | UI Name | Permission | Parameter | |:--|:--|:-| | Information & Settings | read-only | storev2informationreadonly| | Information & Settings | mo…

Paths & Operations 5

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Product Variants 5
GET
/catalog/products/{product_id}/variants
BigCommerce Get All Product Variants
getProductVariants 6 params → 200404
POST
/catalog/products/{product_id}/variants
BigCommerce Create a Product Variant
createProductVariant 3 params body → 200207404
GET
/catalog/products/{product_id}/variants/{variant_id}
BigCommerce Get a Product Variant
getProductVariant 5 params → 200404
PUT
/catalog/products/{product_id}/variants/{variant_id}
BigCommerce Update a Product Variant
updateProductVariant 4 params body → 200207404
DELETE
/catalog/products/{product_id}/variants/{variant_id}
BigCommerce Delete a Product Variant
deleteProductVariant 3 params → 204

Schemas 12

The contract defines 12 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are productVariant_Base (18 properties), pagination_Full (6 properties), errorMultiStatus (4 properties), MultiStatus (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

productVariant_Base
object
Common Variant properties.
18 properties
errorMultiStatus
object
4 properties
productVariant_Put
The model for a PUT to update variants on a product.
MultiStatus
object
3 properties
productVariantOptionValue_Base
object
Common Product Variant Option properties.
2 properties
metaEmpty_Full
object
Response metadata.
productVariant_Post
The model for a POST to create variants on a product.
metaCollection_Full
object
Data about the response, including pagination and collection totals.
1 property
DetailedErrors
object
Each key-value pair describes a failure or partial success case.
productVariantOptionValue_Full
productVariant_Full
pagination_Full
object
Data about the response, including pagination and collection totals.
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bigcommerce-product-variants-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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