How to add the term of a custom taxonomy to a woocommerce product using woo API

Hi @seb06,

I see what you mean. WooCommerce API only currently supports custom metadata fields but doesn’t have an option to add custom taxonomies. If this is what you need, can you please add it as a suggestion on our ideas board?

https://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce?category_id=36092

We’d like to see how many people would be interested in this.

Alternatively you can create a mini plugin that will hook into woocommerce_rest_insert_product, look for the taxonomy information information in the request you send, and then save it on the product:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/wc-apidocs/source-class-WC_REST_Posts_Controller.html#216

Cheers!

Hello,

Thanks for your answer,

However, woocommerce_rest_insert_product doesn’t work, I do not know why but it never triggers

woocommerce_new_product works

But what I would like is what is done by the Brands plugin
https://woocommerce.com/products/brands

Brand is a custom taxonomy attached to woocommerce products.

Adding the custom taxonomy to the woocommerce product with API will look like this:

curl -X PUT https://example.com/wp-json/wc/v2/products/123 \
-u consumer_key:consumer_secret \
-H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ \
-d ‘{“brands”: [48, 49]}’

I need this, would be great if woocommerce integrate it…

Best

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by seb06.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by seb06.

Hi @seb06,

WooCommerce Brands has an API integration already built in the plugin code, and should set product brand using the code you’ve linked to. If it’s not working for you, please submit a support ticket here:

https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/

We can help you test the API and make sure it’s working correctly.

Cheers!

Yes sure, I know that the Brands plugin has API integration built in… ??

But should be present natively into woocommerce !!

Best Regards

I can certainly see the merit of wanting that in the main WooCommerce REST API although I suspect there might be a misunderstanding on what the core WooCommerce plugin caters for: Facilitating eCommerce for all types of products across all types of stores.

As I’m sure you can imagine, folks that sell books don’t need a “brand” as an example. This means that, for that example at least, building out a Brands feature along with an API is redudant/bloated. Instead, that sort of functionality is better reserved for a feature extension like https://woocommerce.com/products/brands/.

Of course, we’re viewing this from a “support” perspective. If you’re still adamant this should be included in the core WooCommerce plugin and the ideas board suggestion above isn’t feasible, I’d recommend creating a pull request with the desired code changes on the WooCommerce Github repository at https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce.

Hello,

I am not talking about a brand bu any custom taxonomy you would like…

The reason why it could be useful to integrate it natively in woocommerce API, it is because it could be good to have others taxonomies than default woocommerce categories and tags for your products…

As we can create custom taxonomies in WP and attach to woocommerce product, it should be interested to deal with that custom taxonomies with the API too…

and it is not only building a custom taxonomy from API, but also attaching the custom taxonomy to a product, edit, delete, create that brand…

Thanks for your help !
Cheers

Seb, I agree with you – I have customers with products that a simple category or tag just won’t do enough.
You can easily create custom taxonomies for WC products just like you do for standard and custom posts.
It’d be great to just use the ‘include in rest’, the ‘rest base’ and the controller where you create the new taxonomy.
Seems like a glaring omission to me.

I’m glad I’ve found this thread.
I have a custom taxonomy too, for my products and I was trying to add terms using:

wp_set_object_terms
or
wp_set_post_terms

With no success.
So is it impossible at this stage with these functions?

Thanks,
Andre