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Replicate Multiple Shopify Accounts
Replicate multiple Shopify accounts to one or many databases.
CData Sync for Shopify is a stand-alone application that provides solutions for a variety of replication scenarios such as replicating sandbox and production instances into your database. Both Sync for Windows and Sync for Java include a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easy to manage multiple Shopify connections. In this article we show how to use the CLI to replicate multiple Shopify accounts.
Configure Shopify Connections
You can save connection and email notification settings in an XML configuration file. To replicate multiple Shopify accounts, use multiple configuration files. Below is an example configuration to replicate Shopify to SQLite:
Windows
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
<DatabaseProvider>System.Data.SQLite</DatabaseProvider>
<ConnectionString>AppId=MyAppId;Password=MyPassword;ShopUrl=https://yourshopname.myshopify.com;</ConnectionString>
<ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
<NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
<DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
<TaskSchedulerStartTime>09:51</TaskSchedulerStartTime>
<TaskSchedulerInterval>Never</TaskSchedulerInterval>
</CDataSync>
Java
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
<DatabaseProvider>org.sqlite.JDBC</DatabaseProvider>
<ConnectionString>AppId=MyAppId;Password=MyPassword;ShopUrl=https://yourshopname.myshopify.com;</ConnectionString>
<ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
<NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
<DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
</CDataSync>
To make use of all the features of the data provider, provide the AppId, Password, and ShopUrl connection properties.
To obtain these values, see the Getting Started section in the help documentation to register the data provider as an application with Shopify.
Configure Queries for Each Shopify Instance
Sync enables you to control replication with standard SQL. The REPLICATE statement is a high-level command that caches and maintains a table in your database. You can define any SELECT query supported by the Shopify API. The statement below caches and incrementally updates a table of Shopify data:
REPLICATE Customers;
You can specify a file containing the replication queries you want to use to update a particular database. Separate replication statements with semicolons. The following options are useful if you are replicating multiple Shopify accounts into the same database:
You can use a different table prefix in the REPLICATE SELECT statement:
REPLICATE PROD_Customers SELECT * FROM Customers
Alternatively, you can use a different schema:
REPLICATE PROD.Customers SELECT * FROM Customers
Run Sync
After you have configured the connection strings and replication queries, you can run Sync with the following command-line options:
Windows
ShopifySync.exe -g MyProductionShopifyConfig.xml -f MyProductionShopifySync.sql
Java
java -Xbootclasspath/p:c:\sqlitejdbc.jar -jar ShopifySync.jar -g MyProductionShopifyConfig.xml -f MyProductionShopifySync.sql
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