WooCommerce Authenticate an Element | Cloud Elements Help Center

You can authenticate with WooCommerce to create your own instance of the WooCommerce element through the UI or through APIs. Once authenticated, you can use the element instance to access the different functionality offered by the WooCommerce platform.

Authenticate Through the UI

Use the UI to authenticate with WooCommerce and create an element instance as described in Authenticate an Element Instance (UI). In addition to the base authentication parameters, you will need the credentials that you identified in API Provider Setup.

After successfully authenticating, we give you several options for next steps. Make requests using the API docs associated with the instance, map the instance to a virtual data resource, or use it in a formula template.

Authenticate Through API

Authenticating through API is similar to authenticating via the UI. Instead of clicking and typing through a series of buttons, text boxes, and menus, you will instead send a request to our /instances endpoint. The end result is the same, though: an authenticated element instance with a token and id.

To authenticate an element instance:

Construct a JSON body as shown below (see Parameters):

{
  "element": {
    "key": "woocommercerest"
  },
  "configuration": {
    "store.url": "<WEB_STORE_URL>",
    "oauth.api.key": "<CONSUMER_KEY>",
    "oauth.api.secret": "<CONSUMER_SECRET>"
  },
  "tags": [
    "<Add_Your_Tag>"
  ],
  "name": "<INSTANCE_NAME>"
}

Call the following, including the JSON body you constructed in the previous step:
```
POST /instances
```
Note: Make sure that you include the User and Organization keys in the header. For more information, see Authorization Headers, Organization Secret, and User Secret.
Locate the token and id in the response and save them for all future requests using the element instance.

Example cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://api.cloud-elements.com/elements/api-v2/instances \
  -H 'authorization: User <USER_SECRET>, Organization <ORGANIZATION_SECRET>' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "element": {
    "key": "woocommercerest"
  },
  "configuration": {
    "store.url": "<http://mycoolstore.com>",
    "oauth.api.key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "oauth.api.secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  },
  "tags": [
    "Docs"
  ],
  "name": "API Instance"
}'

Parameters

API parameters not shown in Cloud Elements are in code formatting.

Note: Event related parameters are described in Events.

Parameter	Description	Data Type
`key`	The element key. woocommercerest	string
Name `name`	The name of the element instance created during authentication.	string
OAuth API Key `oauth.api.key`	The API key or client ID obtained from registering your app with the provider. This is the Consumer Key that you noted in API Provider Setup.	string
OAuth API Key `oauth.api.secret`	The client secret obtained from registering your app with the API provider. This is the Consumer Secret that you noted in API Provider Setup.	string
The Store URL `oauth.callback.url`	The url of your WooCommerce Storefront	string
tags	Optional. User-defined tags to further identify the instance.	string

Example Response for an Authenticated Element Instance

In this example, the instance ID is 12345 and the instance token starts with "ABC/D...". The actual values returned to you will be unique: make sure you save them for future requests to this new instance.

{
  "id": 12345,
  "name": "API Instance",
  "createdDate": "2017-08-07T18:46:38Z",
  "token": "ABC/Dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "element": {
    "id": 2881,
    "name": "WooCommerce",
    "hookName": "WooCommercewp",
    "key": "woocommercerest",
    "description": "Add a Woocommerce (using WordPress REST) Instance to connect your existing Woocommerce account to the eCommerce Hub, allowing you to manage orders and products across multiple eCommerce elements. You will need your Woocommerce API information to add an instance.",
    "image": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000726053868/44a02004f2aeab0534c26fb5afc37784_400x400.png",
    "active": true,
    "deleted": false,
    "typeOauth": false,
    "trialAccount": false,
    "resources": [ ],
    "transformationsEnabled": true,
    "bulkDownloadEnabled": true,
    "bulkUploadEnabled": true,
    "cloneable": true,
    "extendable": false,
    "beta": false,
    "authentication": {
        "type": "custom"
    },
    "extended": false,
    "hub": "ecommerce",
    "protocolType": "http",
    "parameters": [  ],
    "private": false
    },
    "elementId": 2881,
    "tags": [
        "Docs"
    ],
    "provisionInteractions": [],
    "valid": true,
    "disabled": false,
    "maxCacheSize": 0,
    "cacheTimeToLive": 0,
    "configuration": {    },
    "eventsEnabled": false,
    "cachingEnabled": false,
    "externalAuthentication": "none",
    "traceLoggingEnabled": false,
    "user": {
        "id": 12345
      }
}