There are two ways to send authenticated requests to the Medusa server: Using a user's API token, or using a Cookie Session ID.

In many endpoints you'll find an expand query parameter that can be passed to the endpoint. You can use the expand query parameter to unpack an entity's relations and return them in the response.

Please note that the relations you pass to expand replace any relations that are expanded by default in the request.

Expanding One Relation

For example, when you retrieve products, you can retrieve their collection by passing to the expand query parameter the value collection:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?expand=collection" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Expanding Multiple Relations

You can expand more than one relation by separating the relations in the expand query parameter with a comma.

For example, to retrieve both the variants and the collection of products, pass to the expand query parameter the value variants,collection:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?expand=variants,collection" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Prevent Expanding Relations

Some requests expand relations by default. You can prevent that by passing an empty expand value to retrieve an entity without any extra relations.

For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?expand" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

This would retrieve each product with only its properties, without any relations like collection.

In many endpoints you'll find a fields query parameter that can be passed to the endpoint. You can use the fields query parameter to specify which fields in the entity should be returned in the response.

Please note that if you pass a fields query parameter, only the fields you pass in the value along with the id of the entity will be returned in the response.

Also, the fields query parameter does not affect the expanded relations. You'll have to use the expand parameter instead.

Selecting One Field

For example, when you retrieve a list of products, you can retrieve only the titles of the products by passing title as a value to the fields query parameter:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?fields=title" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

As mentioned above, the expanded relations such as variants will still be returned as they're not affected by the fields parameter.

You can ensure that only the title field is returned by passing an empty value to the expand query parameter. For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?fields=title&expand" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Selecting Multiple Fields

You can pass more than one field by seperating the field names in the fields query parameter with a comma.

For example, to select the title and handle of products:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?fields=title,handle" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Retrieve Only the ID

You can pass an empty fields query parameter to return only the ID of an entity. For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?fields" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

You can also pair with an empty expand query parameter to ensure that the relations aren't retrieved as well. For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?fields&expand" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

This section covers how to pass some common data types as query parameters. This is useful if you're sending requests to the API endpoints and not using our JS Client. For example, when using cURL or Postman.

Strings

You can pass a string value in the form of <parameter_name>=<value>.

For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?title=Shirt" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

If the string has any characters other than letters and numbers, you must encode them.

For example, if the string has spaces, you can encode the space with + or %20:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?title=Blue%20Shirt" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

You can use tools like this one to learn how a value can be encoded.

Integers

You can pass an integer value in the form of <parameter_name>=<value>.

For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?offset=1" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Boolean

You can pass a boolean value in the form of <parameter_name>=<value>.

For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?is_giftcard=true" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Date and DateTime

You can pass a date value in the form <parameter_name>=<value>. The date must be in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

For example:

curl -g "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?created_at[lt]=2023-02-17" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

You can also pass the time using the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. Please note that the T and Z here are fixed.

For example:

curl -g "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?created_at[lt]=2023-02-17T07:22:30Z" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Array

Each array value must be passed as a separate query parameter in the form <parameter_name>[]=<value>. You can also specify the index of each parameter in the brackets <parameter_name>[0]=<value>.

For example:

curl -g "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?sales_channel_id[]=sc_01GPGVB42PZ7N3YQEP2WDM7PC7&sales_channel_id[]=sc_234PGVB42PZ7N3YQEP2WDM7PC7" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Note that the -g parameter passed to curl disables errors being thrown for using the brackets. Read more here.

Object

Object parameters must be passed as separate query parameters in the form <parameter_name>[<key>]=<value>.

For example:

curl -g "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?created_at[lt]=2023-02-17&created_at[gt]=2022-09-17" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Query Parameters

In listing endpoints, such as list customers or list products, you can control the pagination using the query parameters limit and offset.

limit is used to specify the maximum number of items that can be return in the response. offset is used to specify how many items to skip before returning the resulting entities.

You can use the offset query parameter to change between pages. For example, if the limit is 50, at page 1 the offset should be 0; at page 2 the offset should be 50, and so on.

For example, to limit the number of products returned in the List Products endpoint:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?limit=5" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

Response Fields

In the response of listing endpoints, aside from the entities retrieved, there are three pagination-related fields returned: count, limit, and offset.

Similar to the query parameters, limit is the maximum number of items that can be returned in the response, and field is the number of items that were skipped before the entities in the result.

count is the total number of available items of this entity. It can be used to determine how many pages are there.

For example, if the count is 100 and the limit is 50, you can divide the count by the limit to get the number of pages: 100/50 = 2 pages.

Sort Order

The order field available on endpoints supporting pagination allows you to sort the retrieved items by an attribute of that item. For example, you can sort products by their created_at attribute by setting order to created_at:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?order=created_at" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

By default, the sort direction will be ascending. To change it to descending, pass a dash (-) before the attribute name. For example:

curl "http://localhost:9000/admin/products?order=-created_at" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {api_token}'

This sorts the products by their created_at attribute in the descending order.

App endpoints that allow handling apps in Medusa.

Auth endpoints that allow authorization of admin Users and manages their sessions.

Batch Job endpoints that allow handling batch jobs in Medusa.

Collection endpoints that allow handling collections in Medusa.