How to get a report of Completed Payments each week automatically?
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We can download a XLS or CSV file of Completed Payments for a certain date range by manually going to https://business.paypal.com/merchantdata/reportHome?reportType=DLOG and doing "Activity download":
But how to get this by email, automatically each week, without having to manually go to the website?
Is there an API that can trigger the download of a CSV or XLS file of transactions ?
Note:
- I've already looked at https://developer.paypal.com/docs/reports/payflow-reports/ and https://developer.paypal.com/docs/reports/#download-reports but it seems quite complex, and there is no full example (only [XML samples](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/reports/payflow-reports/samples/) but it's unclear how to use them)
- I don't want to use IPN for this (I do use it for another task, but here I don't want to use it, because the database I create with IPN is not updated if I do a refund on the website, etc.)
Example of desired output:
"Date","Time","TimeZone","Name","Type","Status","Currency","Gross","Fee","Net","From Email Address","To Email Address",...
"3[Removed. Phone #s not permitted],"CET","John Doe","Website Payment","Completed","EUR","100.00","0","100","...","...",...
"3[Removed. Phone #s not permitted],"CET","Mike Abcd","Website Payment","Completed","EUR","100.00","0","100","...","...",...
Thanks in advance!
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