welcome to lead extension youtube channel where we share everything about e-commerce platforms with shopify an api which destroyed for application programming interface is required to interact with your star database this guide will specifically show you how to get api for private apps on your store to begin with you need to log into your shopify admin panel then scroll down the page and click on develop apps for your store next click on create an app and then enter your app name look for api credentials and click that then scroll down in the access tokens area click
configure admin api access in api admin section select the area that you want the store's app to be able to access you will need to take all permissions read and write if any click save app at the bottom of the page choose api credentials and click install app to get your admin api token click install to give this ad access to your data now admin api access token is revealed and you're ready to run your migration we noted that the admin api token will only be revealed once copy and save your admin api access token
in a secure place in case of future use you can use these credentials to make authenticated requests to the shopify store that uses your application api will be the connector to connect your current shopping cart to your desired one when you're migrating data with lead extension and to migrate data from shopify only extension website go to lead extension.com you can choose to run a free demo to understand how this will work first you need to log into your lead extension account in this case i have already got one click create a new migration and there
you are in the setup section choose your source card and target card now you will see here that you will need the store url and api password go back to your shopify site copy your store url on the search bar and api key on the admin api access token and based on the needed box congratulations now you can start running your migration with lead extension thank you for watching our video if you like our content don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe to our youtube channel to see more interesting e-commerce platforms and shopping
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