How to download your PayPal transaction history

PayPal does let you download activity reports, but they arrive separately from everything else you are trying to keep, and pulling them regularly is a manual chore you have to remember.

What you get

Habeas is an open-source browser extension that collects your documents from PayPal and saves them wherever you choose. From this source it extracts:

transactions — each movement with its date, amount, currency, description and counterparty.

Worth knowing: Habeas is not here because PayPal hides your history — it does not. It is here so that history lands in the same archive as your other services, automatically, without a monthly detour through the export screen.

How it works

It is not a service that connects to paypal.com on its own. It runs inside your own browser, reusing the session you already have open:

You go to paypal.com and sign in yourself, as always, with your MFA or whatever code you use.
Habeas reuses that already-authenticated session to request your documents, exactly as the site itself does.
You choose the destination: a download, a local folder, your Google Drive, Dropbox, WebDAV, S3 or an endpoint of your own.

Your password is never read, never stored and never sent anywhere, and nothing runs in the background while you are away. This is a community source: its definition is public and reviewable, and it runs under the same security rules as every other.

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Free and open source (AGPL-3.0). Install the extension and enable the “PayPal” source from Settings → Browse sources.

Frequently asked questions

Does Habeas store my PayPal password?

No. You sign in yourself, on the usual website, including any verification code. Habeas reuses the session your browser already has open and never reads or stores your credentials.

Is my data sent to a server?

No. Everything happens inside your browser. Documents only go to the destination you pick: a download, a folder on your machine, your own Google Drive or Dropbox, or an endpoint you configure.

What format do I get the documents in?

The original documents exactly as the service issues them (JSON), together with a manifest holding the normalised data.

Is it free?

Yes. Habeas is free software under the AGPL-3.0 licence and its code is public on GitHub.

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Your service is not on the list?

Habeas can learn a new one without any code. Record mode watches the site’s own API while you browse it normally and drafts the source for you; you test it against your own account, and then keep it to yourself or share it so everyone gets it. That is where most of the catalog came from.

Other sources

Habeas works with more Spanish and international services. See the full catalog or read why Habeas exists.