Question

I’m following the tutorial on https://github.com/Shopify/shopify_python_api but at step 4 I always get an “500 Internal Server Error”.

I’m not sure whether I do follow the steps correctly.

After step 3 I visit the URL in permission_url in my browser click “Install” and then copy the data from the URL I get redirected to into a python dict called params.

On executing step 4 I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File ".../lib/python2.7/site-packages/shopify/session.py", line 53, in __init__
    self.token = self.request_token(params['code'])
  File ".../lib/python2.7/site-packages/shopify/session.py", line 90, in request_token
    response = connection.post(access_token_path, ShopifyResource.headers)
  File ".../lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyactiveresource/connection.py", line 313, in post
    return self._open('POST', path, headers=headers, data=data)
  File ".../lib/python2.7/site-packages/shopify/base.py", line 18, in _open
    self.response = super(ShopifyConnection, self)._open(*args, **kwargs)
  File ".../lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyactiveresource/connection.py", line 258, in _open
    response = Response.from_httpresponse(self._handle_error(err))
  File ".../lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyactiveresource/connection.py", line 367, in _handle_error
    raise ServerError(err)
ServerError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

Answer 1

For a private application you do not need to go through the authorization steps to get a token. The token is simply private applications password. So activating a session just requires doing:

session = shopify.Session(SHOP_URL)
session.token = PRIVATE_APPLICATION_PASSWORD
shopify.ShopifyResource.activate_session(session)