Paypal REST api call works from cURL but not from C# code

Question

I\'m trying to call Paypal api from my code. I set up the sandbox account and it works when I use curl but my code isn\'t working the same way, returning 401 Unauthorized instea

Answer 1

Hoping the following code help to anyone who is still looking for a good piece of cake to get connected to PayPal.

As many people, I've been investing a lot of time trying to get my PayPal token access without success, until I found the following:

public class PayPalClient
{
    public async Task RequestPayPalToken() 
    {
        // Discussion about SSL secure channel
        // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32994464/could-not-create-ssl-tls-secure-channel-despite-setting-servercertificatevalida
        ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += (sender, cert, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true;
        ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

        try
        {
            // ClientId of your Paypal app API
            string APIClientId = "**_[your_API_Client_Id]_**";

            // secret key of you Paypal app API
            string APISecret = "**_[your_API_secret]_**";

            using (var client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient())
            {
                var byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(APIClientId + ":" + APISecret);
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));

                var url = new Uri("https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token", UriKind.Absolute);

                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.IfModifiedSince = DateTime.UtcNow;

                var requestParams = new List>
                            {
                                new KeyValuePair("grant_type", "client_credentials")
                            };

                var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(requestParams);
                var webresponse = await client.PostAsync(url, content);
                var jsonString = await webresponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

                // response will deserialized using Jsonconver
                var payPalTokenModel = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString);
            }
        }
        catch (System.Exception ex)
        {
            //TODO: Log connection error
        }
    }
}

public class PayPalTokenModel 
{
    public string scope { get; set; }
    public string nonce { get; set; }
    public string access_token { get; set; }
    public string token_type { get; set; }
    public string app_id { get; set; }
    public int expires_in { get; set; }
}

This code works pretty well for me, hoping for you too. The credits belong to Patel Harshal who posted his solution here.