php - List of Paypal payments with personal Account

Question

I have a Paypal Account Type: Personal

I don't want to be Business account or anything else.

Is there a way to get a list of last payments ? Maybe there is some API for personal account ?

The only way I see to get what I want, is create a php script which will imitate browser, login to web, go to History and get the last payments.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can only get access to the APIs using a premier or business account. As for a PHP script - you can certainly get it to work. However, if you do not take care of simulating a browser access 100%, PayPal MAY detect an unauthorized account access and lock the account down.

My advice would be to upgrade to a premier account and avoid the hacks.

Once you've got a premier account, you can use the TransactionSearch and GetTransactionDetails API calls in order to retrieve a list of payments (note that this can be a bit of a headache to handle too)