{"id":2151,"date":"2021-02-24T18:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:08:56","slug":"how-to-get-an-access-token-to-integrate-with-paypal-rest-apis-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/how-to-get-an-access-token-to-integrate-with-paypal-rest-apis-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get an Access Token to integrate with PayPal REST APIs in Python"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before you can integrate with PayPal via the REST APIs<\/a>, you will need to obtain an access token.<\/p>\n

Given that REST APIs is agnostic to programming languages, you can use a programming language of your choice to get the Access Token.<\/p>\n

In case you are wondering how you can get an Access Token to integrate with PayPal REST APIs in Python, this is how you can do so.<\/p>\n

1. Create a PayPal App for your application to integrate with<\/h2>\n

If you have not done any integration with PayPal before, you will need to create a PayPal App.<\/p>\n

In order to do so, login to PayPal developer account<\/a>. After you had logged in successfully, click on Create App<\/a> under My apps & credentials<\/strong>:
\n\"PayPal<\/p>\n

If you are creating a PayPal App for production integration, then be sure to toggle the Live option at the top.<\/p>\n

When the Create New App<\/strong> page loads, fill in your App details and associate it to a PayPal business account.<\/p>\n

After you clicked on Create App<\/strong>, you will see the Client ID and Secret:\"PayPal after the App is created. <\/p>\n

You can get the secret by clicking on Show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Given that, record the Client ID<\/strong> and Secret<\/strong> for later use.<\/p>\n

2. Install the Python requests library<\/h2>\n

If you had not done so, you can install the Python requests<\/a> library into your Python environment:<\/p>\n

\r\npip install requests\r\n<\/pre>\n
After you had installed the requests library, you will have an easy-to-use library to send our HTTP requests<\/a>.<\/p>\n
3. Run the Python codes to get the Access Token from your PayPal App<\/h2>\n
Given that we have the necessary ingredients, we are ready to write the Python codes to get the Access Token.<\/p>\n
To get the Access Token, we are sending a HTTP Basic Authentication request with Python<\/a> to PayPal.<\/p>\n
Given that in mind, the following is a simple Python script to get the the Access Token from your PayPal App:<\/p>\n
\r\nimport requests\r\n\r\n# Change the URL to https:\/\/api-m.paypal.com for live access\r\nPAYPAL_URL = 'https:\/\/api-m.sandbox.paypal.com'\r\nAPP_CLIENT_ID = 'your_app_client_id'\r\nAPP_SECRET = 'your_app_secret'\r\n\r\noauth_url = '%s\/v1\/oauth2\/token' % PAYPAL_URL\r\n\r\noauth_response = requests.post(oauth_url,\r\n                               headers= {'Accept': 'application\/json',\r\n                                         'Accept-Language': 'en_US'},\r\n                               auth=(APP_CLIENT_ID, APP_SECRET),\r\n                               data={'grant_type': 'client_credentials'})\r\n\r\n# Get OAuth JSON in response body\r\noauth_body_json = oauth_response.json()\r\n# Get access token\r\naccess_token = oauth_body_json['access_token']\r\nprint(access_token)\r\n<\/pre>\n
Before running the script, change your_app_client_id<\/strong> and your_app_secret<\/strong> with the ones that you obtained earlier. After you have done so, you will be able to see the Access Token on your shell console when you run the script.<\/p>\n\n