---
id: woocommerce
version: "3.0.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: dormant
---

# WooCommerce — A Python wrapper for the WooCommerce REST API

License: permissive · Maintenance: dormant · Downloads: 162.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package provides a thin Python client for the WooCommerce REST API, abstracting away HTTP mechanics so you can interact with your store's data using simple method calls. It wraps the requests library to handle authentication (OAuth1.0a and Basic Auth), SSL verification, and response parsing, letting you GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and OPTIONS any WooCommerce endpoint—products, orders, customers, and more—by passing endpoint names and data dictionaries.

You instantiate an API object with your store URL and credentials, then call methods like `.get("products")` or `.post("orders", data)` to interact with your store. All methods return requests Response objects, so you work with familiar HTTP status codes, headers, and JSON parsing. It's designed for straightforward store automation and integration tasks where you need programmatic access to WooCommerce data.

Use it for:

- Bulk import or export products, orders, or customer data from a WooCommerce store into your application.
- Automate order fulfillment workflows by fetching new orders and updating their status or metadata.
- Sync inventory levels between WooCommerce and an external system or warehouse management tool.
- Build custom reporting dashboards that pull sales, customer, or product data from multiple stores.
- Programmatically create or update products with dynamic pricing, descriptions, or attributes.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

A Python wrapper for the WooCommerce REST API that lets you programmatically read, create, update, and delete products, orders, customers, and other WooCommerce store data.

Yes, if you need to automate WooCommerce store operations and can accept dormant maintenance. The package is stable, has no known vulnerabilities, and a single lightweight dependency. However, verify that it works with your current WooCommerce version—the last release was in 2021, so if your store runs a significantly newer WooCommerce API, test compatibility first.

## Install

pip install woocommerce
uv add woocommerce
poetry add woocommerce

## Installing WooCommerce

Before you install: Low install friction with a single runtime dependency (requests). Maintenance is dormant—last release was in 2021 and the last commit in 2024, so while not abandoned, the package receives minimal updates. It remains marked Production/Stable and supports Python 3.6 through 3.9.

License in practice: MIT License (permissive) means you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install woocommerce

from woocommerce import API

wcapi = API(
    url="http://example.com",
    consumer_key="ck_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    consumer_secret="cs_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    version="wc/v3"
)

products = wcapi.get("products", params={"per_page": 20}).json()

Requires valid WooCommerce store URL and API credentials (Consumer Key and Consumer Secret) generated from your WooCommerce admin.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package works reliably with current WooCommerce versions (no releases since 2021).
- Compatibility with Python versions beyond 3.9 (classifiers only list up to 3.9).

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: dormant
- Downloads: 162.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

woocommerce api client, woocommerce rest api python, ecommerce store automation, woocommerce product management, wordpress store integration, woocommerce order api, ecommerce-api, rest-client

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