Title: Idea for a Python REST API plugin to modify the content
Last modified: December 2, 2025

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# Idea for a Python REST API plugin to modify the content

 *  [clottedcode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blauwevogel/)
 * (@blauwevogel)
 * [5 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/idea-for-a-python-rest-api-plugin-to-modify-the-content/)
 * I know WordPress is made with PHP, but nonetheless I want to ask you this question,
   because for my own use cases, like an e-commerce shop or a custom dictionary,
   I need this functionality. And since it has become easier to set up a site, I
   want to make WP headless with Python. So up to now, I have written some short
   codes;
 * `from openpyxl import Workbook
   workbook = Workbook()sheet = workbook.activesheet["
   A1"] = "hallo"sheet["B1"] = "wereld!"sheet["B2"] = "Dag"workbook.save(filename
   ="HalloWereld.xlsx")
 * `import requests
   auth = ("[Site name]", "[secret code")url = "[Site URL on localhost]"
   new_post = {'title': '[Blog title]','content': '[Blog content]','status': 'publish'}
   response = requests.post(url, json=new_post, auth=auth)
 * I wonder how I can merge openpyxl and the Rest API, so you can connect Excel 
   to your WooCommerce multisite shop (for each worksheet is another site). And 
   I test it out on localhost because messing with API is dangerous, you can instantly
   make posts.

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/idea-for-a-python-rest-api-plugin-to-modify-the-content/#post-18740136)
 * You wouldn’t “merge” the two together. You’d want to set up your Python scripts
   to do all of the processing, then use that to call the REST API to do whatever
   changes are required. The only way they should be talking to each other is over
   the REST requests, not directly through code.
 *  Thread Starter [clottedcode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blauwevogel/)
 * (@blauwevogel)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/idea-for-a-python-rest-api-plugin-to-modify-the-content/#post-18740643)
 * Yeah, I know, but I would like an official Python GUI through which you can push
   and pull data from and to your shops, just like with Github for example. This
   is an often-requested feature, hence my question. I also saw the post-meta data
   as a seperate table in mysql, where the post id and meta-data id are coupled 
   and the posts data, which makes it tougher to register a feature-image url attribute,
   you should also do it via REST API, I read. Many newer e-commerce shops and blogs
   often have easy over 1000 products/pages, as servers become faster and capable
   of storing more media. I am literally checking the JSON structure of the data
   tables inside MYSQL, because you can also store JSON in Excel. I hope this clarifies
   the idea. Many plugins who do this are paid / premium and I don’t own a creditcard,
   here in Netherlands debit is mostly used.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/idea-for-a-python-rest-api-plugin-to-modify-the-content/#post-18741624)
 * You’re free to develop you own Python GUI as a WP plugin. Of course it wouldn’t
   be “official” as in incorporated into the core package, but it could at least
   be hosted in the WP plugin repository. FYI, certain good, popular plugins have
   been known to become rolled into the core package at some point down the road.

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