Newsletter Subscription in Shopify and connecting it to HubSpot

If you need newsletter subscription in your Shopify e-commerce, first you have to select the theme in which newsletter sign up form is available. As many Shopify themes provides a basic newsletter sign up form in the footer or right column.

But, It does nothing when you click submit button because of the newsletter sign up form is not connected to the Shopify backend.

For proper working We have to replace email signup form with this code -

{% form 'customer' %}
        {{ form.errors | default_errors }}
        {% if form.posted_successfully? %}
          <p class="form--success">{{ 'general.newsletter_form.confirmation' | t }}</p>
        {% else %}
          <div class="input-group">
            <input type="hidden" name="contact[tags]" value="newsletter">
            <label for="Email" class="newsletter__label label--hidden">{{ 'general.newsletter_form.email_placeholder' | t }}</label>
            <input type="email" value="{% if customer %}{{ customer.email }}{% endif %}" placeholder="{{ 'general.newsletter_form.email_placeholder' | t }}" name="contact[email]" id="Email" class="input-group__field newsletter__input" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off">
            <span class="input-group__btn">
              <button type="submit" class="btn newsletter__submit" name="commit" id="Subscribe">
                <span class="newsletter__submit-text--large">{{ 'general.newsletter_form.submit' | t }}</span>
              </button>
            </span>
          </div>
        {% endif %}
 {% endform %}

When properly connected, a newsletter sign up will be fed to HubSpot via Hubshoply and show as a conversion event. You can get it in customers section of Shopify and contacts in HubSpot.

Categorized words according to parts of speech from english sentence in Ruby

In the English language, words can be considered as the smallest elements that have distinctive meanings. Based on their use and functions, words are categorized into several types or parts of speech.

In this blog we will define and examples for major parts of speech from English sentence with using ruby gem engtagger .

 require 'rubygems'
 require 'engtagger'


 # Initialize a parser object
 tgr = EngTagger.new

 # Sample text
 text = "Ruby is an expressive, dynamic programming language."

 # Add part-of-speech tags to text
 tagged = tgr.add_tags(text)

 # Get all nouns from a tagged output
 nouns = tgr.get_nouns(tagged)

 => {"Ruby"=>1, "programming"=>1, "language"=>1}

 # Get all the adjectives
 adj = tgr.get_adjectives(tagged)

 => {"expressive"=>1, "dynamic"=>1}

 # Get all the verbs
 adj = tgr.get_verbs(tagged)

 => {"is"=>1}

Fetch all products from Shopify api

Suppose, If your store contains more than 50 products and you wish to fetch all products from store.

When you call a shopify api's like this -

products = ShopifyAPI::Product.all

Above api will fetch maximum of 50 products but you can use limit parameter to set limit of products in every call of api's like this -

products = ShopifyAPI::Product.find(:all,:params => {:limit => 250})

But above api's also returns only 250 products. What if you have more then 250? Can’t you just increase the limit to the total number of products in your catalog to 1000? As simple as it sounds, it doesn’t quite work in that way… Shopify uses a technique called pagination, which basically divides the response to your request into separate memory chunk.

So, we can use pagination technique to fetch all products from shopify -

count = ShopifyAPI::Product.count
       page = 1
       products = []
       while count > 0 do
         products << ShopifyAPI::Product.find(:all, :params => {:page => page})
         count = count - 50
         page = page + 1
       end
 products.flatten!

It will return all products of your shopify store.

Fetch products from Shopify and create or update metafields with key value of each product with Shopify api's.

Sometime, it becomes essentials to add a customized metafield in product so,we can add some functionality with the help of these metafields.
In this blog, we will fetch products from a store of shopify and create our customized metafield in which we will add pdf file url for each product.

 ############ Required Dependencies ##############


    require 'rubygems'

    require 'shopify_api'



    ############ Shopify Credentials ################


    API_KEY = '846bef1--------------------------'

    PASSWORD = '2e0eed--------------------------'

    SHOPNAME = 'store_name_of_shopify-----------'

    shop_url = "https://#{API_KEY}:#{PASSWORD}@#{SHOPNAME}.myshopify.com/admin"


    ##### Fetch Products and create metafields ######   

    begin

      ShopifyAPI::Base.site = shop_url

      products = ShopifyAPI::Product.all

      products.each do |product|

        metafield = ShopifyAPI::Metafield.new(key:'pdf_url_s3',

                                          namespace: "headerlabs",

                                          value: 'http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/s3-dg.pdf',

                                          value_type: "string")

        product.add_metafield(metafield)

      end

    rescue => e

      puts e.inspect

    end

Now, you can access these metafields in template of product in shopify liquid file

    {% assign headerlabs = product.metafields.headerlabs %}

    {% assign key = 'pdf_url_s3' %}

    <a href={{ headerlabs.pdf_url_s3}} target="_blank" >