leetsoft.com/api/paypal/.
Another approach is to download data in CSV format through PayPal??™s web site. If
you have a business PayPal account, you can use the following procedure to download
your own PayPal data for this chapter??™s example. If you don??™t have a business PayPal
account, or you don??™t have any activity to analyze, you can download sample data from
the Source/Downloads area of the Apress web site (http://www.apress.com) or from
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http://rubyreporting.com/examples/paypal_example.csv. (The reason you need a business
account is that its data includes a number of additional fields that are not in the personal
account data.)
1. Log in to your PayPal account at http://www.paypal.com/.
2. Click the History tab, as shown in Figure 7-1.
Figure 7-1. PayPal History screen
3. Click Download My History to see a screen similar to Figure 7-2.
nTip If you have a large volume of data, PayPal will put your report in a queue and e-mail you when it is
ready for download.
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