PayPal REST SDK

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Repository for PayPal's Node SDK (node.js version >=0.6.x) and Node samples for REST API. For a full working app and documentation, have a look at the PayPal Node SDK Page.

v1.0.0 notice: If upgrading from paypal rest sdk 0.*, Please view Breaking Changes in release_notes.md

Before starting to use the sdk, please be aware of the existing issues and currently unavailable or upcoming features for the REST APIs. (which the sdks are based on)

Installation

npm install paypal-rest-sdk

Usage

To write an app using the SDK

• Register for a developer account and get your client_id and secret at PayPal Developer Portal.

• Add dependency 'paypal-rest-sdk' in your package.json file.

• Require 'paypal-rest-sdk' in your file

  var paypal = require('paypal-rest-sdk');

• Create config options, with parameters (mode, client_id, secret).

  paypal.configure({
    'mode': 'sandbox', //sandbox or live
    'client_id': 'EBWKjlELKMYqRNQ6sYvFo64FtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM',
    'client_secret': 'EO422dn3gQLgDbuwqTjzrFgFtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM'
  });

• For multiple configuration support, have a look at the sample

• Invoke the rest api (eg: store a credit card) with required parameters (eg: data, config_options, callback).

  var card_data = {
    "type": "visa",
    "number": "4417119669820331",
    "expire_month": "11",
    "expire_year": "2018",
    "cvv2": "123",
    "first_name": "Joe",
    "last_name": "Shopper"
  };
  
  paypal.creditCard.create(card_data, function(error, credit_card){
    if (error) {
      console.log(error);
      throw error;
    } else {
      console.log("Create Credit-Card Response");
      console.log(credit_card);
    }
  })

• For creating Subscription Payments, check out the samples for creating planned sets of future recurring payments at periodic intervals.

• To create Future Payments, check out this sample for executing future payments for a customer who has granted consent on a mobile device.

• For exploring additional payment capabilites, such as handling discounts, insurance, soft_descriptor and invoice_number, have a look at this example. These bring REST payment functionality closer to parity with older Merchant APIs.

• Customizing a PayPal payment experience is available as of version 1.1.0 enabling merchants to provide a customized experience to consumers from the merchant’s website to the PayPal payment. Get started with the supported rest methods and samples.

• For creating and managing Orders, i.e. getting consent from buyer for a purchase but only placing the funds on hold when the merchant is ready to fulfill the order, have a look at samples.

• For creating batch and single payouts, check out the samples for payouts and payout items. The Payouts feature enables you to make PayPal payments to multiple PayPal accounts in a single API call.

• For Invoicing, check out the samples to see how you can use the node sdk to create, send and manage invoices.

• To receive notifications from PayPal about Payment events on your server, webhook support is now available as of version 1.2.0. For creating and managing Webhook and Webhook Events, check out the samples to see how you can use the node sdk to manage webhooks, webhook events and verify that the response unaltered and is really from PayPal. Since 1.6.0, it is highly recommended to use getAndVerify to verify the authenticity of webhook messages. It is also important to note that simulated messages generated using the Webhook simulator would not be compatible with the verification process since they are only mock data.

• To use OpenID Connect

  // OpenID configuration
  paypal.configure({
    'openid_client_id': 'CLIENT_ID',
    'openid_client_secret': 'CLIENT_SECRET',
    'openid_redirect_uri': 'http://example.com' });
  
  // Authorize url
  paypal.openIdConnect.authorizeUrl({'scope': 'openid profile'});
  
  // Get tokeninfo with Authorize code
  paypal.openIdConnect.tokeninfo.create("Replace with authorize code", function(error, tokeninfo){
    console.log(tokeninfo);
  });
  
  // Get tokeninfo with Refresh code
  paypal.openIdConnect.tokeninfo.refresh("Replace with refresh_token", function(error, tokeninfo){
    console.log(tokeninfo);
  });
  
  // Get userinfo with Access code
  paypal.openIdConnect.userinfo.get("Replace with access_code", function(error, userinfo){
    console.log(userinfo);
  });
  
  // Logout url
  paypal.openIdConnect.logoutUrl("Replace with tokeninfo.id_token");

Running Samples

Instructions for running samples are located in the sample directory. Try these samples in a live sandbox environment:

Running Tests

To run the test suite first invoke the following command within the repo

If mocha is not installed

npm install -g mocha

and then to install the development dependencies:

npm install

then run the tests:

grunt test (timeout is specified in milliseconds eg: 15000ms)

Debugging

• It is recommended to provide Paypal-Debug-Id if requesting PayPal Merchant Technical Services for support. You can get access to the debug id by setting environment variable NODE_ENV=development.
• The error object returned for any bad request has error.response populated with details. NODE_ENV=development setting also gives you access to stringfied response in error messages.

Reference

[REST API Reference] (https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/api/)

Contribution

• If you would like to contribute, please fork the repo and send in a pull request.
• Please ensure you run grunt before sending in the pull request.