{"id":1174,"date":"2010-04-16T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2010-04-16T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:43:08","slug":"jump-to-paypal-transaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/1174\/jump-to-paypal-transaction","title":{"rendered":"Jump To PayPal Transaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/12283008210\">complained on Twitter<\/a> about PayPal&#8217;s unfortunate transaction search utility, which doesn&#8217;t recognize <em>the transaction ID<\/em> itself as a search term.<\/p>\n<p>Georg C. Br\u00fcckmann <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gcbrueckmann\/status\/12283277096\">chimed in<\/a> with a semi-solution, which is a URL template you can use to jump directly to a PayPal transaction by ID. Take the root PayPal URL for your country, and add &#8220;vst\/id=&#8221; followed by the PayPal transaction ID. In the United States, this leads to a URL like:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/vst\/id=1234\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/vst\/id=1234\ufeff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad to say that remembering a static PayPal URL and pasting in the transaction ID in the magic location is indeed easier than navigating PayPal&#8217;s slow and awkward transaction history UI. But it could be even easier with a little automation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/AppleScript\/JumpToPayPalTransactionID.zip\">Jump To PayPal Transaction ID<\/a> is a simple AppleScript that prompts you for a transaction ID, constructs the desired URL, and opens it in your default browser. If you don&#8217;t live in the United States, open the script in AppleScript Editor and alter the template URL contained within it.<\/p>\n<p>I put this in my Safari-specific scripts folder:<\/p>\n<pre>[Home] | Library | Scripts | Applications | Safari<\/pre>\n<p>So it&#8217;s available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/\">FastScripts<\/a> whenever I&#8217;m in Safari. Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I complained on Twitter about PayPal&#8217;s unfortunate transaction search utility, which doesn&#8217;t recognize the transaction ID itself as a search term. Georg C. Br\u00fcckmann chimed in with a semi-solution, which is a URL template you can use to jump directly to a PayPal transaction by ID. Take the root PayPal URL for your country, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applescript","category-business","category-fastscripts","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}