instapay-eg

Community SDK for Egyptian InstaPay payment links.
Parse, validate, audit, and generate QR codes - with zero core dependencies.

What is instapay-eg?

instapay-eg is a Python SDK for working with Egyptian InstaPay payment links (https://ipn.eg/S/...).

InstaPay is Egypt's national instant payment network, built by the Egyptian Banks Company (EBC). Developers building Egyptian fintech applications - food delivery, e-commerce, booking platforms, freelance marketplaces - regularly need to:

• Parse the multi-line share-sheet text the InstaPay app produces
• Verify that a link is genuinely from InstaPay and not a phishing URL
• Extract a user's handle for display or storage
• Generate QR codes for payment requests
• Integrate payment link validation into their Pydantic/FastAPI or Django models

This SDK solves all of that with a clean, typed, zero-dependency core API.

Features

Installation

Using pip:

pip install instapay-eg

Using uv:

uv add instapay-eg

With Optional Extras

# For Pydantic / FastAPI integration:
pip install "instapay-eg[pydantic]"

# For QR code generation:
pip install "instapay-eg[qrcode]"

# For Django integration:
pip install "instapay-eg[django]"

# Everything at once:
pip install "instapay-eg[all]"

Quick Demo

from instapay_eg import parse_text

# Paste the raw text from the InstaPay app share sheet:
raw = """
https://ipn.eg/S/alice/instapay/2DcFGv
Click the link to send money to
alice@instapay
Powered by InstaPay
"""

data = parse_text(raw)

print(data.link)            # https://ipn.eg/S/alice/instapay/2DcFGv
print(data.handle)          # alice
print(data.formatted_handle) # alice@instapay
print(data.raw_url_id)      # 2DcFGv
print(data.is_verified)     # True

Security Audit

from instapay_eg import audit_link

# Check a suspicious link:
report = audit_link("https://ipn.eg.evil.com/S/alice/instapay/fake")

print(report.is_safe)        # False
print(report.phishing_risk)  # True
print(report.failure_reason) # "Domain 'ipn.eg.evil.com' matches a known phishing pattern."

Pydantic / FastAPI

from fastapi import FastAPI
from pydantic import BaseModel
from instapay_eg.integrations.pydantic import InstaPayLink, InstaPayHandle

class PaymentRequest(BaseModel):
    # Users can paste raw share-sheet text - the link is extracted & verified automatically
    link: InstaPayLink
    recipient: InstaPayHandle

app = FastAPI()

@app.post("/payments")
async def create_payment(payment: PaymentRequest):
    return {"link": payment.link, "recipient": payment.recipient}

QR Code Generation

from instapay_eg.integrations.qrcode import qr_as_base64, save_qr

link = "https://ipn.eg/S/alice/instapay/2DcFGv"

# Return in a JSON API response - no file I/O needed:
b64 = qr_as_base64(link)
# → Use in HTML: <img src="data:image/png;base64,{b64}" />

# Or save to disk:
save_qr(link, "alice_payment_qr.png")

CLI

# Parse share-sheet text:
$ instapay parse "https://ipn.eg/S/alice/instapay/2DcFGv Click to pay..."
  Link:    https://ipn.eg/S/alice/instapay/2DcFGv
  Handle:  alice
  Format:  alice@instapay
  Safe:    ✅ Yes

# Audit a suspicious URL:
$ instapay audit "https://ipn.eg.evil.com/S/alice/instapay/fake"
  Status:   ❌ UNSAFE - DO NOT USE
  Phishing: ❌ LOOKALIKE DOMAIN DETECTED

Documentation

Full documentation is available at mohamedmostafa259.github.io/instapay-eg.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

Disclaimer

This is an community-driven utility package. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the Egyptian Banks Company (EBC) or InstaPay Egypt.

License

MIT - see LICENSE for details.