Hide products from Woocommerce REST API

Question

I'm trying to find a way to hide products from the Woocommmerce REST API. I can request certain products using filters, but I'm looking for a way to hide products from the API entirely.

I can modify the output of the API with register_rest_field and register_meta functions, but those add new data.

We are connecting our shop to a 3rd party and it's fetching all products, when we only need a very small percentage of those products. There is nu customization possible on their end, so was hoping to limit the visiblity of products in the API somehow?

Answer 1

You can exclude products but does not look like there is a way to exclude certain products from being returned when listing all products on the site by default.

woocommerce: How to exclude some products with specific tag ID from Woocommerce REST API

https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#list-all-products