analytics app?

[pchalasani]

Hello, can this repo be used as a starting point for an analytics app to be deployed in the Shopify app store?
Sorry if I'm co-opting issues for questions :)

[mllemango]

Hey @pchalasani, no reason you couldn't create an analytics app with this! The django app starts you off with the python api which connects you to the Shopify Admin API.

[pchalasani]

Thank you @mllemango. So in theory, through the python API we can get access to the merchant's customer data, do our own special processing, and give them insights displayed on our app?

[mllemango]

For sure :) Just make sure your app asks for the right scopes to access this type of data.

[pchalasani]

Great, thanks for the clarification.

[pchalasani]

@mllemango are you aware of any sample datasets that typify merchant customer data, so we can test out our idea, or is there a spec of such data?

[mllemango]

There's a few options available to you, I think the easiest is to search in google and github for third-party data sets. There are apps on our app store that can also populate data (I personally haven't used any so I'm not too knowledgeable about that), and finally we have our shopify cli tool. Theres a populate command in our CLI that can fill product, customer, and fake order data, but currently that call is tied to an app, so it's not the most straightforward solution.