Page Summary
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This webpage provides code samples in Java, PHP, and Python demonstrating how to retrieve a single product from a Merchant Center account using the Merchant API.
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The code samples utilize OAuth credentials for authentication and show how to create and send a
GetProductRequestto theProductsServiceClient. -
Each sample includes instructions to configure authentication and replace placeholders with your specific account and product details to make the examples runnable.
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The code demonstrates catching and printing error messages, ensuring robust handling of potential API issues or network failures.
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The
productvariable/constant, representing the identifier of the product being retrieved, follows the format:accounts/{account}/products/{productId}and in pythonchannel~contentLanguage~feedLabel~offerId.
Merchant API code sample to get a product.
AppsScript
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/**
*
Get
a
specific
product
for
a
given
Merchant
Center
account
.
*/
function
getProduct
()
{
//
IMPORTANT
:
//
Enable
the
Merchant
API
Products
sub
-
API
Advanced
Service
and
call
it
//
"MerchantApiProducts"
//
Replace
this
with
your
Merchant
Center
ID
.
const
accountId
=
'<MERCHANT_CENTER_ID>'
;
//
The
ID
of
the
product
to
retrieve
.
//
This
ID
is
assigned
by
Google
and
typically
follows
the
format
:
//
channel
~
contentLanguage
~
feedLabel
~
offerId
//
Replace
with
an
actual
product
ID
from
your
Merchant
Center
account
.
const
productId
=
'<PRODUCT_ID>'
;
//
Construct
the
parent
name
const
parent
=
'accounts/'
+
accountId
;
//
Construct
the
product
resource
name
const
name
=
parent
+
"/products/"
+
productId
;
try
{
console
.
log
(
'Sending get Product request'
);
//
Call
the
Products
.
get
API
method
.
product
=
MerchantApiProducts
.
Accounts
.
Products
.
get
(
name
);
console
.
log
(
product
);
}
catch
(
e
)
{
console
.
log
(
'ERROR!'
);
console
.
log
(
e
);
}
}
Java
// Copyright 2025 Google LLC
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
package
shopping.merchant.samples.products.v1
;
import
com.google.api.gax.core.FixedCredentialsProvider
;
import
com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials
;
import
com.google.common.io.BaseEncoding
;
import
com.google.shopping.merchant.products.v1.GetProductRequest
;
import
com.google.shopping.merchant.products.v1.Product
;
import
com.google.shopping.merchant.products.v1.ProductsServiceClient
;
import
com.google.shopping.merchant.products.v1.ProductsServiceSettings
;
import
java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
;
import
shopping.merchant.samples.utils.Authenticator
;
import
shopping.merchant.samples.utils.Config
;
/** This class demonstrates how to get a single product for a given Merchant Center account */
public
class
GetProductSample
{
// Base64Url encoder/decoder without padding
private
static
final
BaseEncoding
BASE64URL_NOPADDING
=
BaseEncoding
.
base64Url
().
omitPadding
();
// Encodes a string to base64url without padding
public
static
String
encodeProductId
(
String
productId
)
{
return
BASE64URL_NOPADDING
.
encode
(
productId
.
getBytes
(
StandardCharsets
.
UTF_8
));
}
public
static
void
getProduct
(
Config
config
,
String
accountId
,
String
productId
)
throws
Exception
{
// Obtains OAuth token based on the user's configuration.
GoogleCredentials
credential
=
new
Authenticator
().
authenticate
();
// Creates service settings using the credentials retrieved above.
ProductsServiceSettings
productsServiceSettings
=
ProductsServiceSettings
.
newBuilder
()
.
setCredentialsProvider
(
FixedCredentialsProvider
.
create
(
credential
))
.
build
();
// Calls the API and catches and prints any network failures/errors.
try
(
ProductsServiceClient
productsServiceClient
=
ProductsServiceClient
.
create
(
productsServiceSettings
))
{
// The name has the format: accounts/{account}/products/{productId}
String
name
=
"accounts/"
+
accountId
+
"/products/"
+
productId
;
// The name has the format: accounts/{account}/products/{productId}
GetProductRequest
request
=
GetProductRequest
.
newBuilder
().
setName
(
name
).
build
();
System
.
out
.
println
(
"Sending get product request:"
);
Product
response
=
productsServiceClient
.
getProduct
(
request
);
System
.
out
.
println
(
"Retrieved Product below"
);
System
.
out
.
println
(
response
);
}
catch
(
Exception
e
)
{
System
.
out
.
println
(
e
);
}
}
public
static
void
main
(
String
[]
args
)
throws
Exception
{
Config
config
=
Config
.
load
();
String
accountId
=
config
.
getAccountId
().
toString
();
// The name of the `product`, returned after a `Product.insert` request. We recommend
// having stored this value in your database to use for all future requests.
String
productId
=
"en~US~sku123"
;
// Replace with your actual product ID
// Uncomment the following line if the product name contains special characters (such as forward
// slashes) and needs base64url encoding.
// productId = encodeProductId(productId);
getProduct
(
config
,
accountId
,
productId
);
}
}
Node.js
// Copyright 2025 Google LLC
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
'use strict'
;
const
fs
=
require
(
'fs'
);
const
authUtils
=
require
(
'../../authentication/authenticate.js'
);
const
{
ProductsServiceClient
}
=
require
(
'@google-shopping/products'
).
v1
;
/**
* Retrieves a single product for a given Merchant Center account.
* @param {!object} config - The configuration object.
* @param {string} productName - The name of the product to retrieve.
*/
async
function
getProduct
(
config
,
productName
)
{
// Get credentials.
const
authClient
=
await
authUtils
.
getOrGenerateUserCredentials
();
// Create options object for the client.
const
options
=
{
authClient
:
authClient
};
// Create the ProductsServiceClient.
const
productsClient
=
new
ProductsServiceClient
(
options
);
// Construct the request object.
const
request
=
{
name
:
productName
,
};
try
{
console
.
log
(
'Sending get product request:'
);
// Call the API to get the product.
const
response
=
await
productsClient
.
getProduct
(
request
);
console
.
log
(
'Retrieved Product below'
);
console
.
log
(
response
);
}
catch
(
error
)
{
console
.
error
(
error
.
message
);
}
}
/**
* Main function to call the getProduct sample.
*/
async
function
main
()
{
const
config
=
authUtils
.
getConfig
();
// Read merchant_id from merchant-info.json.
const
merchantInfo
=
JSON
.
parse
(
fs
.
readFileSync
(
config
.
merchantInfoFile
,
'utf8'
));
const
merchantId
=
merchantInfo
.
merchantId
;
// The name of the `product`. Replace {product} with the actual ID.
// Format: accounts/{account}/products/{product}
// {product} is usually in the format:
// contentLanguage~feedLabel~offerId
const
productName
=
`accounts/
${
merchantId
}
/products/{productId}`
;
await
getProduct
(
config
,
productName
);
}
main
();
PHP
< ?php
/**
* Copyright 2025 Google LLC
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
require_once __DIR__ . '/../../../vendor/autoload.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/../../Authentication/Authentication.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/../../Authentication/Config.php';
use Google\ApiCore\ApiException;
use Google\Shopping\Merchant\Products\V1\Client\ProductsServiceClient;
use Google\Shopping\Merchant\Products\V1\GetProductRequest;
/**
* This class demonstrates how to get a single product for a given Merchant
* Center account.
*/
class GetProductSample
{
/**
* A helper function to create the product name string.
*
* @param string $accountId
* The account that owns the product.
* @param string $productId
* The ID of the product.
*
* @return string The name has the format: `accounts/{account}/products/{product}`
*/
private static function getName(string $accountId, string $productId): string
{
return sprintf("accounts/%s/products/%s", $accountId, $productId);
}
/**
* Encodes a string to base64url without padding. This is needed if the
* product ID contains special characters (such as forward slashes) and
* needs base64url encoding.
*
* @param string $productId
* The ID of the product.
*
* @return string The encoded product ID.
*/
public static function encodeProductId(string $productId): string
{
return rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($productId), '+/', '-_'), '=');
}
/**
* Retrieves a product from your Merchant Center account.
*
* @param array $config
* The configuration data used for authentication and getting the
* account ID.
* @param string $productId
* The ID of the product, in the form of
* `contentLanguage:feedLabel:offerId`.
*
* @return void
*/
public static function getProduct(array $config, string $productId): void
{
// Gets the OAuth credentials to make the request.
$credentials = Authentication::useServiceAccountOrTokenFile();
// Creates options config containing credentials for the client to use.
$options = ['credentials' => $credentials];
// Creates a client.
$productsServiceClient = new ProductsServiceClient($options);
// The name has the format: accounts/{account}/products/{productId}
$name = self::getName($config['accountId'], $productId);
// Creates the request.
$request = new GetProductRequest([
'name' => $name
]);
// Calls the API and catches and prints any network failures/errors.
try {
print "Sending get product request:\n";
$response = $productsServiceClient->getProduct($request);
print "Retrieved Product below\n";
// Pretty-prints the JSON representation of the response.
print $response->serializeToJsonString(true) . "\n";
} catch (ApiException $e) {
printf("Call failed with message: %s\n", $e->getMessage());
}
}
/**
* Helper to execute the sample.
*
* @return void
*/
public function callSample(): void
{
$config = Config::generateConfig();
// The name of the `product`, returned after a `Product.insert` request.
// We recommend having stored this value in your database to use for all
// future requests.
$productId = 'en~US~sku123'; // Replace with your actual product ID
// Uncomment the following line if the product name contains special
// characters (such as forward slashes) and needs base64url encoding.
// $productId = self::encodeProductId($productId);
self::getProduct($config, $productId);
}
}
// Runs the sample.
$sample = new GetProductSample();
$sample->callSample();
Python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
"""A module to get a single product for a given Merchant Center account."""
import
base64
from
examples.authentication
import
configuration
from
examples.authentication
import
generate_user_credentials
from
google.shopping.merchant_products_v1
import
GetProductRequest
from
google.shopping.merchant_products_v1
import
ProductsServiceClient
# This is needed for base64url encoding if product IDs contain special
# characters such as forward slashes.
def
encode_product_id
(
product_id_to_encode
:
str
)
-
> str
:
"""Base64url encodes a string without padding.
Args:
product_id_to_encode: The product ID string to encode.
Returns:
The encoded product ID string.
"""
encoded_bytes
=
base64
.
urlsafe_b64encode
(
product_id_to_encode
.
encode
(
"utf-8"
))
return
encoded_bytes
.
rstrip
(
b
"="
)
.
decode
(
"utf-8"
)
def
get_product
(
account_id_arg
:
str
,
product_id_arg
:
str
)
-
> None
:
"""Retrieves a single product from a Merchant Center account.
Args:
account_id_arg: The ID of the Merchant Center account.
product_id_arg: The ID of the product to retrieve.
"""
# Gets OAuth Credentials.
credentials
=
generate_user_credentials
.
main
()
# Creates a client.
client
=
ProductsServiceClient
(
credentials
=
credentials
)
# The name has the format: accounts/{account}/products/{product}
name
=
f
"accounts/
{
account_id_arg
}
/products/
{
product_id_arg
}
"
# Creates the request.
request
=
GetProductRequest
(
name
=
name
)
print
(
"Sending get product request:"
)
# Makes the request and catches and prints any error messages.
try
:
response
=
client
.
get_product
(
request
=
request
)
print
(
"Retrieved Product below"
)
print
(
response
)
except
RuntimeError
as
e
:
print
(
e
)
if
__name__
==
"__main__"
:
# Retrieves the configured account ID from the config file.
account_id
=
configuration
.
Configuration
()
.
read_merchant_info
()
# The ID of the product, which is the final component of the product's
# resource name. The product ID is the same as the offer ID.
# For example, `en~US~sku123`.
product_id
=
"en~US~sku123"
# Replace with your actual product ID.
# Uncomment the following line if the product ID contains special characters
# (such as forward slashes) and needs base64url encoding.
# product_id = encode_product_id(product_id)
get_product
(
account_id
,
product_id
)

