Fetch products by category in Woocommerce REST API

[krrishnajee]

I'm using Woocomerce for my wordpress shopping cart. I'm connect my Android App to my Wordpress database through Woocommerce REST API. I need to get products by category on my App. There is no provision in the REST API to fetch product by category.

I tried by using the filter attribute:

https://mysite.com/wc-api/v1/products?filter[product_cat]=mobile&consumer_key=ck_9354534x&consumer_secret=cs_dx7345345

This is return me all the products. Max please help me bro.

[claudiosanches]

We don't have filter for it yet.
Ref: #5453

[maxrice]

Yep no filter in place for this yet, in the meantime you can use the GET /products/categories endpoint to see the available product categories and then do the filtering client-side. I'll milestone this for 2.3, shouldn't be too difficult to add in. Ideally we'd add a filter like filter[category] which matches the semantics used already for product type (filter[type])

[krrishnajee]

Appreciate the reply Max. My Guess is when we do the filtering on client-side, may be the App will crash in some point. Because of loading a huge weight of data at a time. I'm confused and afraid of this point. Hope you may understand my point.

[maxrice]

You could also use the fields parameter to limit the data returned which should reduce the changes of your app crashing from all the data, see http://docs.woocommercev2.apiary.io/reference

[krrishnajee]

Thanks Max. Waiting for your next release and all the best.