What’s New at Shopify?

Shopify now leverages Web Bot Auth and HTTP message signatures to let you securely authorize your own crawlers, scripts, or tools to access your public Shopify online store. This mechanism is intended for merchants who use automated first-party or third-party tools to access their online store for purposes of accessibility and SEO audits, automated testing, data analysis, and similar use cases. This ensures your tools can access your store without being blocked.

Create and manage your signatures in the Shopify admin, where you can set custom names and expiration dates. To use a signature, configure the Signature-Input, Signature, and Signature-Agent HTTP header names and values in your tool of choice.

Learn more about signatures.