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af-data asked David Marginian Deactivated answered

Creating Exports for orders and payments

Just trying to export sales data from clover api.

I am working off the code submitted in github export-api-examples repository .

I am able to create the export successfully. But when I execute the function to get the export, it doesn't return a url to access the url.


def api_url(resource_path):
    """Generate the URL for an API call"""
    return "{}{}?access_token={}".format(HOST, resource_path, ACCESS_TOKEN)

def create_export(export_type, start_time, end_time):
    """Request a new export"""
    url = api_url("/v3/merchants/" + MERCHANT_ID + "/exports/")

    payload = {
        "type": export_type,
        "startTime": start_time,
        "endTime": end_time,
    }
    resp = requests.post(url, json=payload)
    resp.raise_for_status()

    return resp.json()

def get_export(export_id):
    """Get the current state of the specified export"""
    url = api_url("/v3/merchants/" + MERCHANT_ID + "/exports/" + export_id)

    resp = requests.get(url)
    resp.raise_for_status()

    return resp.json()


Running these functions returns:

{'id': 'VJS1YC61KWF1W',
 'type': 'PAYMENTS',
 'status': 'DONE',
 'percentComplete': 100,
 'availableUntil': 1624711390000,
 'startTime': 1624511000,
 'endTime': 1624597000,
 'createdTime': 1624624981000,
 'modifiedTime': 1624624990000,
 'exportUrls': {'elements': []},
 'merchantRef': {'id': 'NZ492DDYP2AY1'},
 'retryCount': 0}


'exportUrls': the values of `elements` should return a url or urls not an empty list.


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You are using 10 digit timestamps, we use Unix with millis 13 digits and I expect that is the problem. Your timestamp is wrong and there is not data to export. Please note the start/end time in our script verse yours (https://github.com/clover/export-api-examples/blob/master/python/create_export.py)

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Are you checking the response? From our logs, I see you are getting a 503 for the export request:

The export service is not available at this time. The allowed times for creating exports are (UTC): MON-FRI 10:00-15:00, SAT 10:00-15:00, SUN 10:00-15:00."
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David Marginian avatar image David Marginian ♦♦ commented ·
I got it, I don't need the token, please. Just the merchant id.
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af-data answered David Marginian Deactivated edited

See above, I was not getting a 503 error (I was running the calls in the allowed time frame). What is happening is that the call is not returning a url.

See line 10:

'exportUrls': {'elements': [] }

Inside the list should be a (or a series) of urls where I can download the records.



  1. { 'id': 'VJS1YC61KWF1W',
  2. 'type': 'PAYMENTS',
  3. 'status': 'DONE',
  4. 'percentComplete': 100,
  5. 'availableUntil': 1624711390000,
  6. 'startTime': 1624511000,
  7. 'endTime': 1624597000,
  8. 'createdTime': 1624624981000,
  9. 'modifiedTime': 1624624990000,
  10. 'exportUrls': { 'elements': []},
  11. 'merchantRef': { 'id': 'NZ492DDYP2AY1'},
  12. 'retryCount': 0}
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David Marginian avatar image David Marginian ♦♦ commented ·

I checked our server logs, and the only export request over the last few days for that merchant is returning a 503. I am assuming that is why the subsequent call it's returning no files.

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