Which paypal api to just fetch all transactions

Question

Very confused by the crowd of paypal-APIs, I wonder if I just can fetch the transactions (in and out) somehow, just like I would it export to csv via webinterface.

Here I am:

• REST-API seems not working for "non-rest-transactions" Payment.all.size == 0 paypal-rest-api-list-payments-returns-no-entries

• Merchant-API does not allow detailed info for specific transactions. https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/GetTransactionDetails_API_Operation_SOAP/ says:

  Note The details for some kinds of transactions cannot be retrieved with GetTransactionDetails. You cannot obtain details of bank transfer withdrawals, for example.

  I recieved a view transactions via transactionSearch. Took the transactionId from one of the transactions.

  api.get_transaction_details(:transaction_id => transaction_id>)
  => #<PayPal::SDK::Merchant::DataTypes::GetTransactionDetailsResponseType:0x007fd3c0f1f8d8 
  @Ack="Failure", 
  @Errors=[#<PayPal::SDK::Merchant::DataTypes::ErrorType:0x007fd3c0f379d8 
    @ShortMessage="Invalid transaction type", 
    @LongMessage="You can not get the details for this type of transaction", 
    @ErrorCode="10004", 
    @SeverityCode="Error">]
  

• Adaptive-API (PaymentDetails with transactionID) throws an "internal error 520002" with no details. (And I found no specification if it could fetch all transactions)

Ok, it's Paypal. But there must be a simple solution they forgot to mention. (?!) Or what did I miss?

Thanks and regards, Phil

Answer 1

I don't know where you're seeing info that the merchant API won't provide details about transactions, but that's simply wrong.

You you can use TransactionSearch to obtain a list of transactions within a given time period, and then you can loop through those results and use GetTransactionDetails to obtain the details for each individual transaction.