satwikkansal/shopify-data-generator

Shopify Orders Generator

A script to generate simulated orders in your Shopify store.

One-time set up

• Create a Private app on Shopify
• Add the credentials to a .env file in the project directory

API_KEY=''
PASSWORD=''
SHOP_NAME='my-awesome-store-for-dev'
API_VERSION='2020-07'

• Import some products and customers through Shopify Dashboard. You can use the exports provided in the data folder (generated using simple-sample-data app).
• Install the dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Runing the script

python generate.py -n 10 -d 10 will generate 10 orders no older than 10 days from the current date.

$ python generate.py -h

usage: generate.py [-h] [-n NUM_ORDERS] [-d BACK_DAYS]

Populate data in your Shopify store

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n NUM_ORDERS, --num_orders NUM_ORDERS
                        Number of orders to generate
  -d BACK_DAYS, --back_days BACK_DAYS
                        Number of days to go back from the current date to generate the orders

Note: Shopify doesn't allow to create more than 5 orders per minute through the Orders API, so the script has a sleep time of 15 seconds after every order creation.