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dawn tartan Dec 14, 2021, 10:24 AM

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@half thistle if you get a 429, try passing a User-Agent HTTP header on the request you're making to download the invoice

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it's just that we block 'anonymous' requests, if you pass a UA it should just work. you should never get a 500.

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 10:31 AM

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thank you for your answer, currently I make <a href> which redirects towards the link of the parameter "invoice_pdf" the limit being 100 operations per second I limit the opening of tab to 45 but the downloading blocks from some downloading by returning me a code 500 I do not understand knowing that it is the browser which carries out the requete

dawn tartan Dec 14, 2021, 10:33 AM

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that seems like a really strange way to do things.

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why aren't you writing a script to just download the PDF and save it to whatever database/system you need?

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 10:35 AM

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I agree with you, that's what I tried to do but the stripe api only allows access to the invoice through "invoice_pdf" which is a direct download link, I didn't succeed in php to download this file otherwise

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If you have a way to access the pdf invoice without getting the direct download link or if you know how to download the document from the "invoice_pdf" parameter in php I'm interested 😉

dawn tartan Dec 14, 2021, 10:40 AM

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it's just the same way you'd download any file in PHP it's not Stripe-specific

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what code did you try exactly?

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I've used this answer before(https://stackoverflow.com/a/18725585/9769731) and it works fine

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 10:44 AM

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dawn tartan it's just the same way you'd download any file in PHP it's not Stripe-specific

Yes but the problem is that "invoice_pdf" is not the link of the document, but the link of direct download of the document what does not allow to download it "normally" via php

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 10:45 AM

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dawn tartan I've used this answer before(https://stackoverflow.com/a/18725585/9769731) and i...

I will take a look at your link, thanks for your help 👍

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I have just tried for an invoice and in the same way as I had tried before to download the invoices, it creates me an empty pdf file (however, the link to the invoice refers to an existing invoice)

dawn tartan Dec 14, 2021, 10:54 AM

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worked fine for me when I tried it

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📎 message.txt

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that's what I used if it helps

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 10:59 AM

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I don't understand I still have my empty invoice.pdf file with your code after replacing $url with the url of a real invoice 🤔

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Did you try with a test invoice or with a real invoice? I don't know if this can explain the difference

dawn tartan Dec 14, 2021, 11:04 AM

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it would be the same for any invoice

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what URL do you use

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 11:16 AM

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I agree with you that's why I don't understand, I can share a real url of a client if you want to test

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the url is in the form : https://pay.stripe.com/invoice/acct_xxx/live_xxx/pdf

dawn tartan Dec 14, 2021, 11:36 AM

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do you have the in_xxx ID of that invoice? (from the API/dashboard)

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 12:57 PM

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here is an example of a link "invoice_pdf" of a real invoice:

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(Please do not share it )

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If I use this link in the code you shared with me, I get an empty file

smoky fjord Dec 14, 2021, 1:02 PM

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Hey, taking over from @dawn tartan

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You should instead just share the Invoice object ID

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We can get the URL from there

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(this is a public channel)

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 1:12 PM

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Hi, thanks for your help, here is the id of an invoice: in_1K5SGkHr4Qvn9djgYG89Cd6

smoky fjord Dec 14, 2021, 1:27 PM

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Hmm, that seems invalid

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 1:53 PM

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I take this information from stripe api

smoky fjord Dec 14, 2021, 1:56 PM

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There's a character missing from what you sent

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in_1K5SGkHr4Qvn9djJgYG89Cd6

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 1:57 PM

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Oh dear, I'm sorry

smoky fjord Dec 14, 2021, 1:58 PM

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It's working for me using the URL from that Invoice object

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 2:02 PM

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So you can download the invoice in php using the invoice id? Do you use the "invoice_pdf" parameter?

smoky fjord Dec 14, 2021, 2:04 PM

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I used the URL from invoice_pdf field, yes

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The $url variable in the code @dawn tartan shared

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 2:08 PM

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can you send me the invoice_pdf link of the invoice ? i can send you too its juste to compare because on my side I just get a empty pdf (thank you for your help)

smoky fjord Dec 14, 2021, 2:09 PM

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https://pay.stripe.com/invoice/acct_1G81rWHr4Qvn9djJ/live_YWNjdF8xRzgxcldIcjRRdm45ZGpKLF9La3lETWhKbGZOdXZwelZTR2x5QUwxZXhCM1lsVXk001007nXrC0U8/pdf

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 2:13 PM

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Yes, we have the same link, I tried on server and I also get an empty pdf when I execute the previous code replacing the $url

lean spear Dec 14, 2021, 2:17 PM

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Hi 👋 I'm getting caught up on this thread.

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I'm not as familiar with doing this from PHP, but when I was downloading invoice PDFs via curl I know it was important that I let it follow redirects.

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 2:20 PM

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But did you use the same code as the one used before or another one (in another language?)

lean spear Dec 14, 2021, 2:33 PM

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I was downloading it directly from my terminal with this command (just checked and it worked with the URL provided here)
curl -L https://pay.stripe.com/invoice/acct_1G81rWHr4Qvn9djJ/live_YWNjdF8xRzgxcldIcjRRdm45ZGpKLF9La3lETWhKbGZOdXZwelZTR2x5QUwxZXhCM1lsVXk001007nXrC0U8/pdf --output new_invoice.pdf

half thistle Dec 14, 2021, 2:46 PM

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Yes I agree with you, you can do it with the terminal but via php I only get an empty file, I will try to execute your command under php

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I managed to execute your command via php, I think I can get around my initial problem with your command, thank you for your help good evening 👍

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