# Developing Shopify Apps, Part 2: Exploring the API

DevFeed: [Developing Shopify Apps, Part 2: Exploring the API](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/developing-shopify-apps-part-2-exploring-the-api-1261.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/17488316-developing-shopify-apps-part-2-exploring-the-api>)

Author: Shopify Engineering

Published: 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on exploring Shopify API calls to inspect and programmatically control information in a test shop.

## Source excerpt

In the previous article in this series, we did the following: Joined Shopify's Partner Program Created a new test shop Launched a new test shop Added an app to the test shop Played around with a couple of quick API calls through the browser In this article, we'll take a look at some of the calls that you can make to Shopify's API and how they relate to the various parts of your shop. This will give you an idea of what Shopify shops are like as well as show you to control them programmatically.