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# How far the merchant's first catalog import has come

> Returns whether the first full Shopify catalog import has finished, its percentage, and the last sync time. Poll it after install until `has_run_at_least_one_ingestion` is true; for the index side use catalog-readiness. Read-only.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi/lite.json get /merchants/{merchant_id}/ingestion-status
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Search & Merchandising API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    REST API behind Depict: Search & Merchandising, the native Shopify app:
    onboarding, collections, boost & bury, dashboards, A/B testing and
    multi-store management. Endpoints are served under the /api/lite prefix and
    are authenticated with the Shopify session token that App Bridge issues to
    the embedded app.
servers:
  - url: /api/lite
security:
  - ShopifySessionToken: []
paths:
  /merchants/{merchant_id}/ingestion-status:
    get:
      summary: How far the merchant's first catalog import has come
      description: >-
        Returns whether the first full Shopify catalog import has finished, its
        percentage, and the last sync time. Poll it after install until
        `has_run_at_least_one_ingestion` is true; for the index side use
        catalog-readiness. Read-only.
      operationId: getIngestionStatus
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
            description: Lite merchant id, e.g. `shopify-<shop id>`.
          required: true
          description: Lite merchant id, e.g. `shopify-<shop id>`.
          name: merchant_id
          in: path
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The import status.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/IngestionStatusDTO'
        '401':
          description: Not authenticated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
        '403':
          description: Authenticated, but this identity may not call the API.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
        '404':
          description: >-
            `Merchant not found` (unknown, or not this caller's), or `No
            ingestion state yet` (the first import has not started; keep
            polling).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
        '500':
          description: Internal error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
components:
  schemas:
    IngestionStatusDTO:
      type: object
      properties:
        has_run_at_least_one_ingestion:
          type: boolean
        completion_percentage:
          type: number
          description: Progress of the first full import, 0..100.
        last_synced_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: Last catalog sync, ISO 8601 UTC.
      required:
        - has_run_at_least_one_ingestion
        - completion_percentage
    Detail:
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
      required:
        - detail
      description: 'Every 4xx/5xx body: `{detail}`.'
  securitySchemes:
    ShopifySessionToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        Shopify App Bridge session token of the embedded Depict: Search &
        Merchandising app. The shop in the token determines the merchant;
        merchant_id parameters must belong to that shop.

````