How to Create Grouped Product Programmatically in Magento 2?

Today's tutorial will bring you a step by step guide on how to create grouped product programmatically in Magento 2.

What is a grouped product? A Group Product is a collection of simple products that are presented as group. Using this, customer can purchase each product separately, or as a part of the group.

These type of products are helpful when you plan to promote cross-selling of the products. Using this type, you can combine other products with the main product.

Steps to Create Grouped Products in Magento 2 Programmatically

So, when you want to create a grouped product programmatically, here is the guide;

Step 1.

First of all, let us create a script for the same. Create grouped.php file at Magento’s root folder and add this below code:

PS It is a working code;)

<?php
use Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;

require __DIR__ . '/app/bootstrap.php';

$params = $_SERVER;
$bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $params);
$objectManager = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();
$state = $objectManager->get('Magento\Framework\App\State');
$state->setAreaCode('frontend');
$product = $objectManager->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\Product');

try {
    $product->setName('Grouped Product'); // Set Product Name
    $product->setTypeId('grouped'); // Set Product Type Id
    $product->setAttributeSetId(11); // Set Attribute Set ID
    $product->setSku('grouped-product'); // Set SKU
    $product->setWebsiteIds([1]); // Set Website Ids
    $product->setVisibility(4); // Set Visibility
    $product->setPrice([1]); // Set Price
    $product->setImage('/grouped/test.jpg'); // Image Path
    $product->setSmallImage('/grouped/test.jpg'); // Small Image Path
    $product->setThumbnail('/grouped/test.jpg'); // Thumbnail Image Path
    $product->setStockData(
        [
            'use_config_manage_stock' => 0,
            'manage_stock' => 1,
            'min_sale_qty' => 1,
            'max_sale_qty' => 2,
            'is_in_stock' => 1,
            'qty' => 100,
        ]
    );
    $product->save();
    $childrenIds = [2, 3, 4]; // Set Associated Product ids
    $associated = [];
    $position = 0;
    foreach ($childrenIds as $productId)
    {
        $position++;
        $linkedProduct = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface')->getById($productId);
        $productLink = $objectManager->create('\Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductLinkInterface');
        $productLink->setSku($product->getSku())
            ->setLinkType('associated') // Set Link Type
            ->setLinkedProductSku($linkedProduct->getSku()) // Set Link Product SKU
            ->setLinkedProductType($linkedProduct->getTypeId()) // Set Link Product Type
            ->setPosition($position) // Set Position
            ->getExtensionAttributes()
            ->setQty(1);

        // Set Associated Product Default QTY
        $associated[] = $productLink;
    }
    $product->setProductLinks($associated);
    $product->save();
    if ($product->getId())
    {
        echo "Product Created Successfully";
    }
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
}