Show Bid Request Extracting information from the Paypal History Transaction Log Bid Request Id: 63878 Bookmark in my 'To Do' list Posted by: A. Walter (64 ratings) (Software buyer rating 10) Non-action Ratio: Above Average - 26.72% Buyer Security Verifications: Excellent Approved on: May 18, 2003 11:40:45 PM EDT Bidding Closes: May 21, 2003 11:40:12 PM EDT Viewed (by coders): 75 times Deadline: 5/25/2003 TIME EXPIRED Phase: 100% of work completed and accepted. Coder has been paid. Max Accepted Bid: Bidding is closed Project Type: Personal Project / Homework Help Bidding Type: Open Auction Categories: Web, Windows, Visual Basic Enter chat room for this bid request (0 active users at Sep 1, 2003 9:15:35 AM EDT) Description: What I need in this project is to extract all the transaction data from Paypal for the time period given. For the current project just use the dates given after logging into paypal. First, it needs to find all the hyperlinks that shows the transactions. Then it needs to open each one and retrieve all the relivent information like address, gross amount, net amount, payment type, notes, etc. Once it gets to the end of the page, it needs to goto the next page automatically until there is no more pages left. Once there is no more pages left, then its done and it should put the contents to a text file or simple database so I can see what data is what. Once the paypal button no longer shows next, then it knows its finished. To find out what log I am talking about goto http://www.paypal.com Then click on History. From there, whatever is defaults is fine. I can write code to change the dates needed. There are 2 main formats. The first one is payments from customers. The other type is payments made with a Paypal credit card. I can provide the sample pages if needed if you do not have a Paypal credit card. Using the download option is not available in my case because there are so many transactions. I have contacted Paypal and they said that for those files, they have to be approved first. I cannot wait up to 24 hours each day to get the downloaded file. Deliverables: The source code showing all the transaction information for the default time periods. Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP Must be 100% finished and received by buyer on: May 25, 2003 EDT Deadline legal notes: All times are expressed in the time zone of the site EDT (UT - 5). If the buyer omitted a time, then the deadline is 11:59:59 PM EDT on the indicated date. Remember that contacting the other party outside of the site (by email, phone, etc.) on all business projects < $500 (before the buyer's money is escrowed) is a violation of both the software buyer and seller agreements. We monitor all site activity for such violations and can instantly expel transgressers on the spot, so we thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you notice a violation please help out the site and report it. Thanks for your help.   Bidding/Comments: All monetary amounts on the site are in United States dollars. Rent a Coder is a closed auction, so coders can only see their own bids and comments. Buyers can view every posting made on their bid requests. See all rejected bids (and all comments) Name   Bid Amount    Date   Coder Rating   GribFritz (77 ratings) in College Point, New York United States Bid id: 685,504   N/A May 18, 2003 11:50:18 PM EDT  9.93 (Excellent)     Hi Andy, There is a download my history option on PayPal's pages. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_history-download Couldn't a script be written to automatically fill in the fields on this page and have it downloaded instead? Seems like less (and therefore cheaper) work to get similar results. Thomas Tustin           See 8 private reply(ies) to/from GribFritz.