Endpoint for user login/signup in Woocommerce Rest API v2

Question

I have searched completely in Woocommerce REST API documentation for the endpoint of user login/signup but unable to find it. Can anyone provide me the link to the endpoint and its documentation?

Answer 1

You can achieve this in lot of ways.

1st method is:

It's not specific for WooCommerce but also for all WordPress login and sign up

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For sign up:

Method POST

Params : username,email,password

https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/users

It will create a new user

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For login:

Method POST

Params : username/email,password

https://example.com/wp-json/jwt-auth/v1/token

It will generate an access token which you can pass in for your future requests.

You can use JWT Authentication for WP REST API for login purposes

Answer 2

For reference: Woocommerce users or customers are actually Wordpress users, more like blog subscribers (just like woocommere products are wordpress posts, so to create a user you could use WP_API functions for that purpose.

wp_create_user To create users with minimum parameters (username, password and email).
wp_insert_user To create users with extended user data.

I assume that user roles must match those that woocommerce handle (customers or shop managers) Now there's also an endpoint for creating/updating/listing customers in WooCommerce REST API (http://woothemes.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#customers) but there's no login/auth support at the moment.

For login/authenthication there's two mechanisms in the WP_API: CookieAuth and OAuth If you explain what you are trying to accomplish it would be easier to help.

Answer 3

You can create / signup user by hitting customers/ endpoint with params : username , email and password.

later you can insert more details like shipping or billing address by hitting customers/<userid>

Now, There's no endpoint available in the REST API for login customers but,

You can achieve this by:

• installing JWT Authentication for WP REST API plugin in your WordPress admin.
• after installing this plugin, now you have the endpoint for login a customer

https://yourdomain.com/wp-json/jwt-auth/v1/token?password=123456789&username=nicename

NOTE: it is recommended to use a username instead of email for login a customer because WordPress authenticates the user by the username.

• here's the last step: Don't forget to add define('JWT_AUTH_SECRET_KEY', 'your-top-secrect-key'); in your wp-config.php file.