WooCommerce update a product when opening single product view - wordpress

Question

I have to update my product with data that comes from an API query. I would like to update the products data when visiting the single products view. I'm new to WordPress and WooCommerce, but I think this can be done through hooks?
I've tried looking for hooks but haven't had any luck yet

Answer 1

You could do something like the example below.
This will run every time the product is viewed. Of course, you have to add your own API call and adapt the function to your data structure.
add_action('wp', 'update_product_data');
function update_product_data(){
if (class_exists('WooCommerce') && is_product()) {
$product = wc_get_product( get_the_ID() );
$product_id = $product->get_id();
// Call the external API to get the updated product data
$api_url = 'http://example.com/api/product/' . $product_id;
$response = wp_remote_get($api_url);
// Check for successful response and decode the JSON data
if (!is_wp_error($response) && wp_remote_retrieve_response_code($response) == 200) {
$data = json_decode(wp_remote_retrieve_body($response), true);
// Update the product's weight and description with the data from the API
$product->set_weight($data['weight']);
$product->set_description($data['description']);
$product->save();
}
}
}