Getting Started with PayPal Server SDK

Introduction

Important Notes

• Available Features: This SDK currently contains only 5 of PayPal's API endpoints. Additional endpoints and functionality will be added in the future.

Information

The PayPal Server SDK provides integration access to the PayPal REST APIs. The API endpoints are divided into distinct controllers:

• Orders Controller: Orders API v2
• Payments Controller: Payments API v2
• Vault Controller: Payment Method Tokens API v3 Available in the US only.
• Transaction Search Controller: Transaction Search API v1
• Subscriptions Controller: Subscriptions API v1

Install the Package

The package is compatible with Python versions 3.7+. Install the package from PyPi using the following pip command:

pip install paypal-server-sdk==2.4.0

You can also view the package at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paypal-server-sdk/2.4.0

Initialize the API Client

Note: Documentation for the client can be found here.

The following parameters are configurable for the API Client:

The API client can be initialized as follows:

Code-Based Client Initialization

import logging

from paypalserversdk.configuration import Environment
from paypalserversdk.http.auth.o_auth_2 import ClientCredentialsAuthCredentials
from paypalserversdk.logging.configuration.api_logging_configuration import LoggingConfiguration
from paypalserversdk.logging.configuration.api_logging_configuration import RequestLoggingConfiguration
from paypalserversdk.logging.configuration.api_logging_configuration import ResponseLoggingConfiguration
from paypalserversdk.paypal_serversdk_client import PaypalServersdkClient

client = PaypalServersdkClient(
    client_credentials_auth_credentials=ClientCredentialsAuthCredentials(
        o_auth_client_id='OAuthClientId',
        o_auth_client_secret='OAuthClientSecret'
    ),
    environment=Environment.SANDBOX,
    logging_configuration=LoggingConfiguration(
        log_level=logging.INFO,
        request_logging_config=RequestLoggingConfiguration(
            log_body=True
        ),
        response_logging_config=ResponseLoggingConfiguration(
            log_headers=True
        )
    )
)

Environment-Based Client Initialization

from paypalserversdk.paypal_serversdk_client import PaypalServersdkClient

# Specify the path to your .env file if it’s located outside the project’s root directory.
client = PaypalServersdkClient.from_environment(dotenv_path='/path/to/.env')

See the Environment-Based Client Initialization section for details.

Environments

The SDK can be configured to use a different environment for making API calls. Available environments are:

Fields

Authorization

This API uses the following authentication schemes.

• Oauth2 (OAuth 2 Client Credentials Grant)

List of APIs

• Orders
• Payments
• Vault
• Transaction Search
• Subscriptions

SDK Infrastructure

Configuration

• ProxySettings
• Environment-Based Client Initialization
• AbstractLogger
• LoggingConfiguration
• RequestLoggingConfiguration
• ResponseLoggingConfiguration

HTTP

• HttpResponse
• HttpRequest

Utilities

• ApiResponse
• ApiHelper
• HttpDateTime
• RFC3339DateTime
• UnixDateTime