Liquid Filter & Object Reference

Shopify's own documentation lists what each Liquid filter and object does, but reading a description isn't the same as seeing it actually run against real-shaped data. This reference covers 65 filters and 28 objects, searchable by name or description, and every entry that can be meaningfully demonstrated shows its actual input and rendered output, computed live using the same LiquidJS engine behind our Liquid Playground, against a shared, realistic mock product, cart, and collection.

Why a live example beats a description

A filter description tells you what a filter is supposed to do, an actual rendered example shows you exactly what it does, including the small formatting details, capitalization rules, decimal handling, exact output shape, that a one-line description tends to gloss over. Every filter and object entry with a runnable example here shows both the input Liquid and its real computed output side by side, so there's nothing to mentally simulate.

Organized by category, searchable across both filters and objects

Filters are grouped into String, Number, Array, Money, Misc, Color, Media, HTML, and Localization. Objects are grouped by what they represent, Product, Cart, Order, Content, Design, Theme, and Platform. Searching matches both the name and the description at once, and the type toggle and category dropdown narrow results further, so finding "the filter that formats a price" or "the object that holds cart items" doesn't require already knowing its exact name.

Where a live example genuinely isn't possible

Objects like section, block, settings, request, form, and search depend entirely on real runtime context, an actual section's settings schema, the current request's path, a form's submission state, that can't be meaningfully faked with static mock data. These are shown with their key properties listed for reference, clearly marked as reference-only rather than dressed up with a fabricated live example that would just be a guess.

Where examples are illustrative rather than exact

A handful of filters, the color math family, image and asset URL filters, weight formatting, and translation, are flagged with a small warning on their card. Shopify's real CDN image resizing, exact color algorithms, and locale file lookups aren't things a browser-only reference can reproduce byte for byte, so these show a reasonable, clearly-labeled approximation rather than presenting a guess as Shopify's actual output.

Not a complete list of every filter Shopify has ever shipped

Shopify's full filter list runs well past a hundred entries, including a number of narrow, infrequently used ones. This reference deliberately covers the roughly 65 filters and 28 objects that come up in the overwhelming majority of real theme work, not a literal reproduction of Shopify's entire reference documentation, which remains the source of truth for anything genuinely obscure.

Runs entirely in your browser

Every live example is rendered locally using LiquidJS, nothing is sent to a server. Our Liquid Playground is the natural next step for testing your own combinations beyond a single filter or object, and our Metafield to Liquid Snippet Generator covers metafield-specific access patterns in more depth, both part of the same Shopify Tools collection this tool belongs to.