Question

I’d like to use the published field on products that’s documented here in the Shopify API:

Hide a published product by changing the published attribute to false

I can change the flag on any product, but I have not figured out yet how to get the published field back from the API. It’s not listed the list of fields of the Product
object.

Answer 1

You can set the published_at field of individual products directly as described here:

product.published_at = nil; product.save              # hides product
product.published_at = Time.now.utc; product.save     # makes product visible

You can also hide a collection of products by setting published to false as described here:

collection = ShopifyAPI::CustomCollection.find(params[:collection_id])
collection.published = false
collection.save

UPDATED

Now that I understand the question better, here is the answer you want. You can’t really get the ‘published’ value back as there isn’t really a published attribute on a product. You can, however, check the published_at field and check if it’s nil (not published). Setting published = false apparently sets this to nil for you.