#thiefmaster_best-practices
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neon fiber
I guess I can just call stripe.Account.retrieve(api_key=...) and see if it succeeds, but i wonder if there's a better API endpoint for this since i don't really care about the data it returns
terse spade
There's no API specifically for this, but you can achieve the goal by calling any no-op endpoint. Without an object ID, the simplest way to do this is any List endpoint. eg, call List Customers with limit=1.
neon fiber
thanks. another question, is there an endpoint that includes information whether the key belongs to a sandbox or production environment? that would actually be useful to show to my users 🙂
(i know i can just use string operations to see if it starts with sk_test_..., but getting it from an API feels cleaner)
terse spade
Yep, in that same List request you can peek at the 1 customer returned (assuming they have customers) and inspect whether livemode is true or false.
https://docs.stripe.com/api/customers/object#customer_object-livemode
(you could also list payment intents similarly to check)
If the account has no customer or payments, you'd only be able to tel with a write operation like creating a customer to check livemode in the result.
neon fiber
what if it should work on a completely clean stripe account that has no PIs, customers, etc. yet?
ah too bad :/
terse spade
Let me check something hang on
neon fiber
i guess i'll just check locally for the key format and show a warning based on that
ok, thx!
terse spade
I think you can probably do this my listing payment method configurations: https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_method_configurations/list
Beucase even a brand new account should have at least one created by default
and you can check livemode on that
neon fiber
thanks, will have a look