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The documentation is outdated and I will get round to updating it when I can afford to spend time on it.

The API works with or without authentication but works best when not authenticating as a user. The API shows what you have in the cart, either added directly from your site or via the API.

The API acts just like the cart on the site. No more, no less.

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So this command http://domain.com/wp-json/wc/v2/cart/ -u consumer_key:consumer_secret would pull the cart for the user that i'm sending through?

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Correct

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Great, thanks seb. I'll try that out tomorrow.

Also happy to contribute to the docs, I'll let you know how it all goes.

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So in order to have an individual subscriber of our site have their cart accessed via the API, we would need to automatically generate each user a consumer_key and consumer_secret? Or have them authorize our app like this? http://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/images/woocommerce-auth-endpoint-flow.png

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@JosephCarrington yep exactly, i've written a function that generates the keys whenever a user registers in WordPress and stores them in their user info, and they are then passed in a JWT token to the client.

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I have just installed the plugin. But without the documentation, I have some problems.
I've tested the API with Postman and all works fine. But when I use it inside my website (without authentification), it is not working. (I am not creating my own web app but I want to use the API inside the initial wordpress-woocommerce website).
Do I have to use authentification? @botoxparty could you precise how you did that?

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@BlueCloud02 Documentation has moved. You can access it here: https://co-cart.github.io/co-cart-docs/

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@BlueCloud02 For users without authentication I store the responses from the API into localstorage and build the cart like that, if a user logs in then the cart in localstorage is merged into their account's cart.

Would be great if there was some way of the API keeping up with carts for unauthenticated users using a cookie or something even.. Feature request?

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The WooCommerce cart does use cookies and sessions. It's just encrypted as a hash, I think. You will have to use the cart normally and then look for what the value of the cookie WooCommerce saves to confirm.

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@seb86 Hmm i understand that the cart uses cookies and sessions however getting the API to refer to these particular sessions or cookies isn't documented. I'd be happy to help write the docs to perform these actions if you're willing to chat about it over slack or something?

This project has helped me a lot with my work and am very happy to contribute to driving it forward.

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@botoxparty The documentation is available here should wish to make a contribution but please know that I will be making some changes myself soon so you will have to keep an eye out for changes pushed.

Simply fork the repo and apply your contribution then make a pull request. I will then review and merge if all good.

Thank you.

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@botoxparty Sorry forgot to provide a link to the documentation. https://github.com/co-cart/co-cart-docs which I have just updated. More is to come but you are welcome to contribute to it now.

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