Creates a theme by providing the public URL of a ZIP file that contains the theme. A new theme is always unpublished by default. To publish a theme when you create it, include "role": "main" in the POST request. The theme will be published only after all of its files have been extracted and stored by Shopify, which might take a couple of minutes.

https://shopify.com/admin/api/2021-01/themes.json

https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/rest/reference/online-store/theme#create-2021-01

Access Token Required: API Key

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'https://shopify.com/admin/api/2021-01/themes.json' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}

POST