---
id: "shopify_shared_secret"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["secrets"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 63
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/shopify_shared_secret"
---

# Shopify app shared secret (`shopify_shared_secret`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Shared secret of a Shopify app: the prefix shpss_ followed by 32 hexadecimal digits.

- Parent datatype: `api_key`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens) (secrets)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^shpss_[a-fA-F0-9]{32}$
```

## Examples

- `shpss_ExampleSecretNotReal` (invalid example) — Not hexadecimal and too short

## Supported by tools

- `gitleaks`

## Sources

- other: <https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml>

## Quality

Score 63/100. Missing: examples, authoritative source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/shopify_shared_secret.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/secrets/shopify_shared_secret.yaml>