Library to access PayPal's REST API
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Introduction
paypal_rest is a library to wrap PayPal’s REST interface. In late 2020, most Python libraries for the PayPal API are focused on charging customers. This library is focused on getting information about past charges and customers.
paypal-query tool
This library includes a command line tool, paypal-query, to quickly get information from the API; provide an illustration of using the library; and help with debugging. To use it, first write a configuration file ~/.config/paypal_rest/config.ini with your client credentials from PayPal:
[query] client_id = ... client_secret = ... ; site can 'live', 'sandbox', or an API endpoint URL site = live
To see an overview of transactions over a time period:
paypal-query [--begin DATETIME] [--end DATETIME]
Specify all datetimes in ISO8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS. You can omit any part of the time, or the whole thing. You can also add a timezone offset, like -04:00 or +01:00, or Z for UTC.
To see details of a specific transaction or subscription:
paypal-query [--end DATETIME] PAYPALID1234ABCD0 [...]
The PayPal API does not let you look up an individual transaction by ID; you have to search through 30-day time windows. The tool will automatically search backwards through time to find your result, but specifying the latest date to search from with the --end option can speed up the search significantly.
Library quickstart
Create a paypal_rest.client.PayPalAPIClient using one of the classmethod constructors, then call its methods and handle the results:
config = configparser.ConfigParser() config.read(os.path.expanduser('~/.config/paypal_rest/config.ini')) paypal = paypal_rest.client.PayPalAPIClient.from_config(config['query']) for txn in paypal.iter_transactions(start_date, end_date): ... # txn is a paypal_rest.transaction.Transaction object you can query.
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