--- title: Upload a product catalog slug: upload-a-product-catalog published_at: 2021-09-23 15:00:01 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:53:10 +0000 summary: description: Learn how to upload a JSON object and create a product catalog in Stripe. ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Product object API reference 02:08 Price object API reference 02:56 Read in and map JSON 07:22 Create price object 08:22 Executing the script ### Resources Code: https://gist.github.com/cjavilla-stripe/d11ede0383bad23cc329cc2588a3f975 Product API ref: https://stripe.com/docs/api/products Price API ref: https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/products-prices ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 #Stripe #Payments tags: [stripe, payments, dev byte, upload a product catalog, products, prices, @cjav_dev] views: 1967 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/upload-a-product-catalog youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-6QpARFqc youtube_id: 2_-6QpARFqc embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/2_-6QpARFqc thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2_-6QpARFqc/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Upload a product catalog *Published: September 23, 2021* *Views: 1967* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-6QpARFqc) [![Upload a product catalog](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2_-6QpARFqc/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-6QpARFqc) ## Description Learn how to upload a JSON object and create a product catalog in Stripe. ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Product object API reference 02:08 Price object API reference 02:56 Read in and map JSON 07:22 Create price object 08:22 Executing the script ### Resources Code: https://gist.github.com/cjavilla-stripe/d11ede0383bad23cc329cc2588a3f975 Product API ref: https://stripe.com/docs/api/products Price API ref: https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/products-prices ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 #Stripe #Payments ## Transcript hey what's up in this episode i wanted to talk about uploading a product catalog [Music] i'm working on a demo that we're going to do with microsoft and one of their standard demo stores is called contoso crafts where there's a bunch of crafts that you can buy and as part of this demo we have a little bit of json that we're going to work with and the json includes sort of the id of an object the maker who created the object an image of the product and the url of the product it has a title description and it has a price here there's no currency but we'll just sort of assume us dollars in this case and what i wanted to do today was walk through the process of how we might take this json object and using the stripe api upload the product catalog to our account here so from the stripe dashboard we see that there's no products created yet if we look at the api reference this is the api reference for the product object so a product represents sort of what you're buying the case of contoso crafts we are going to be buying t-shirts or stickers little projects for arduinos and things like that and so in this case we wanted to find the description the name and maybe some pictures of the product at the product level we don't actually have any concept of the amount we're going to pay or the currency or if it's recurring or not that's going to be encapsulated in a separate object called a price so it's going to be in a separate price object so we have a products object and we have a price object what we're going to do today is read in this json upload it to the stripe api we'll just talk through each of those steps so i think what makes most sense is probably to use stripe ruby it's a really easy client library but before we do that let's just talk about how we might break down this json object into what ultimately will be our request to the stripe api here at the top i'm just going to drop in one instance of a product here so this is the json for the product it has the id maker all these different attributes and we're going to want to map that into whatever we want to upload to stripe ultimately and so if we look at the api for creating prices here when we create a price object we can pass in the id of an existing product but there's also a really interesting little tool we can use called product underscore data where we create the product data as we're creating the price so i think we could actually pass in the product data when we're creating the price data and at the price level this is where we specify the currency and how much it costs if we were creating a price that's related to a subscription or some sort of like recurring billing then we would specify the recurring components also here so the interval at which the subscription should recur etc all right so let's go through our json that we have here and let's map it into arguments that we would pass in for creating a price and nested inside of that price the product so i think what we want to do is read in our products from the json file so we're gonna say json.parse file.read.products.json and this should give us back all of our product data and uh just to confirm that's working we'll print out products and run this it looks like we have an uninitialized content json we need to require json okay so this is spitting out all of the json data that we expected but now it's parsed into actual ruby objects so we're getting hashes we have an array of hashes here and so what we want to do is we want to map over the products so we want to say dot map do product and we want to map these into price params basically like a whole bunch of different price params and so um when we're creating a price one of the things we're going to pass in is the product data and that product data is going to be this nested argument we also want to pass in the unit amount and the currency for now we'll hard code the currency as usd and the unit amount is available as part of the product here the key is price just like this so we can say product at price and that should give us back this uh integer value in cents for how much the product cost so in this case it's 399.99 okay inside of the product data we're going to pass the description and that's going to be product description we can also pass images so for a product on the stripe api it can have up to eight images and it's a it accepts an array of urls to those images so in this case we have a single image on our product json so we're going to pass product image like so what else do we got here so our product name is going to be the title the product title from our json okay why don't we test that out and just see what this looks like at this point so maybe we'll just print out each of those hashes as we iterate okay i'm missing something here uh i guess we need to call this something let's print them all out like that so we are getting now a bunch of objects that looks great okay so now let's say this is our params for creating the price i guess we could p params all right and that looks good okay is there anything else that we're missing so we didn't actually pass any ratings i think that's okay and then the url for the underlying object or the underlying product is interesting and also the maker is interesting but we don't actually have anywhere to store the id the maker or the url as like as first class objects that are represented inside of the stripe api so what we can do is instead we can nest these inside of metadata so as we're creating these objects in fact one thing we might want to do too is use a lookup key so we can pass the id as the lookup key lookup key we'll use uh product id that'll be useful if we wanted to implement a tool inside of our system that's based on this json where we can use this id to look up the price id so that's pretty interesting but we can also use metadata so i think we want to pass in metadata at the product level so inside of product data we'll pass in the metadata which includes everything that we weren't able to record as part of the prices you know native object so in here we'll pass in the maker we can pass in product maker we can also pass in the url for the product product url if we wanted we could track the ratings but i think that's okay let's also store the id here product id maybe we want to store this as like internal id or something so if it was our our own system we could use underscore for now we'll just use id i think that should be fine and we'll print out params and let's see what this looks like so this is what we're ultimately going to pass to the stripe api to create prices inside of stripe so what we want to do now is call stripe price dot create and pass in these params now in order to call strike price create we actually need to install or include the stripe api client library which is called stripe ruby we can gem install that i've already got it installed so i'm just going to say require stripe here and then i'm going to set my api key equal to uh and our api key which we can find in the stripe dashboard by going to developers api keys revealing our test key and copying that and now we have our test api key installed so what i want to do is run this uh run this code and this should create a bunch of prices and products in our dashboard so let's come back over here to the products view and yeah let's give it a whirl so we're gonna run upload again we are in test mode we're using our test api keys let's see received unknown parameters description and images all right let's take a look here so while we're creating our product data ah so we are only able to pass when we're working with nested product data we can only pass the name and node no description so if we want to actually set the name and description and images we'll need to use the product api the proper product api so let's do this first we're going to create the product so now we'll say let's actually move we'll move all of the product params we'll say product rams is going to be this stuff okay and here we can say product is stripe product dot create product params in fact i think i might just move all of this inside of the create call now we are creating a product and then for our price params we will pass the id of the product so here we can say instead of passing product data we can pass product and that will be the id of the product so in this case we can't use product as the same name that we're passing to the block so let's call this one stripe product and down here we will say stripe product id and again let's pass this in directly okay so now we're going to make two api calls per product we're going to make one to create the product and one to create the price now if we wanted to at this point we might we might do something like fetch and exchange rate right we might we might fetch an exchange rate so we could create multiple prices for that same product for different currencies and then we could make separate api calls for each of the different currencies here for now because we're assuming usd this i believe should work so let's give this a another run seems like it's making api calls we can head over to our dashboard and go to the overview here and we do see a bunch of products those are all coming in and they are all be being created with the images so this looks fantastic this is exactly what i was hoping for and we've got you know this the product image we have the description of the product the name and we have this price object that we can then use when we are selling these objects the execution finished down below so that's how we might take a json object use the products and prices api to create products and prices inside of our stripe dashboard thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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