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WooCommerce Shipping Zones API

Manage shipping zones, their locations, and shipping methods

WooCommerce Shipping Zones API is one of 21 APIs that WooCommerce publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 7 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Shipping Zones. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and 7 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v3.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://example.com/wp-json/wc/v3.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v3
Base URL
https://example.com/wp-json/wc/v3
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

WooCommerce Shipping Zones API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic Auth using the WooCommerce Consumer Key as the username and Consumer Secret as the password over HTTPS. Over plain HTTP use OAuth 1.0a one-legged au…

Paths & Operations 2

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

Shipping Zones 2

Manage shipping zones, their locations, and shipping methods

GET
/shipping/zones
WooCommerce List All Shipping Zones
listShippingZones → 200401
GET
/shipping/zones/{id}/methods
WooCommerce List Shipping Methods for a Zone
listShippingZoneMethods 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ShippingMethod (8 properties), Error (3 properties), ShippingZone (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ShippingMethod
object
A shipping method configured within a shipping zone.
8 properties
ShippingZone
object
A shipping zone defining geographic regions with specific shipping methods.
3 properties
Error
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

woocommerce-shipping-zones-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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