Importing your PayPal history into MySQL

Here’s one way to do it:

1.) Login to PayPal -> History – > Download My History -> Custom Date Range (Note: if you have a large amount of transactions, PayPal will time out and you’ll get nothing. The trick is to do a year at a time.) -> File Types For Download -> Comma Delimeted – All Activity -> Download History.

This should put a “Download.csv” file on your desktop.

2.) Open Download.csv in Excel, delete first row, and save as another .csv file (for example, paypal-2006.csv).

3.) Login to your MySQL database using phpMyAdmin.

4.) phpMyAdmin -> (your database) -> SQL -> Insert and Run the following:

CREATE TABLE `paypal` (
`Date` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Time` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`TimeZone` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Type` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Status` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Subject` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Gross` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Fee` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Net` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`FromEmailAddress` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`ToEmailAddress` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`TransactionID` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`ReferenceTxnID` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`ReceiptID` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`Balance` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

5.) phpMyAdmin -> paypal -> Import -> Browse -> (select paypal-2006.csv) -> replace the semi-colon (;) with a comma (,) in the “Fields Terminated By” box -> GO

-Bob

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