# Developing Shopify Apps, Part 3: More API Exploration

DevFeed: [Developing Shopify Apps, Part 3: More API Exploration](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/developing-shopify-apps-part-3-more-api-exploration-1263.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/17488332-developing-shopify-apps-part-3-more-api-exploration>)

Author: Shopify Engineering

Published: 2011-08-03T22:52:00Z

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: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [cURL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/curl.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox.md>)

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## AI overview

Part 3 of a series on developing Shopify apps explains how to explore Shopify's RESTful API beyond simple browser-based GET requests. It introduces REST clients, including cURL, desktop clients, and browser extensions such as REST Console for Chrome and RESTClient for Firefox, then demonstrates retrieving a shop's product list in XML or JSON.

## Source excerpt

Welcome back to another installment of Developing Shopify Apps! In case you missed the previous articles in this series, they are: Part 1: The Setup. In this article, we: Joined Shopify's Partner Program Created a new test shop Launched a new test shop Added an app to the test shop Played with a couple of quick API calls through the browser Part 2: Exploring the API.