auto-generate a list of contributors:
On 05/01/2018 12:29 AM, stefan_trethan wrote:
Maybe you can simply sell 150 "contributing memberships" on Ebay as $1
buy it now items and if someone wants to donate say $10 they can just
pick up 10 pcs? This would cap the funds coming in and almost
auto-generate a list.
ebay is so tight with the data -- I don't see auto generate.
paypal.com is not very helpful either -- their "statements" do not have credit or bank account payment details or emails.
A list of who paid has to come from the many individual emails sent as paypal process payments.
The individual paypal "You've got money" emails could be processed as a batch using an email reader
like thunderbird first. Using thunderbird so all paypals to
a certain email go in a folder/directory you can select them all in a date range that you want, then do a save as to a directory already created for them to land in and they all go into files with ridiculously long names like:
'Re: [TekScopes] PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO - "Gary Robert Bosworth" <grbosworth@...> - 2018-04-30 2346.eml'
'Re: [TekScopes] PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO - "Robert Simpson via Groups.Io" <go_boating_fast@...> - 2018-04-30 2354.eml'
'Re: [TekScopes] PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO - "Sergey Kubushyn" <ksi@...> - 2018-04-30 2330.eml'
That directory full of data could be processed by a script to extract name, email, and amount paid. probably a bash script or python script would be low effort.
paypal You've got money emails contain these same lines every time:
x sent you $x
Money received $x.xx USD
sed commands could strip out name, email, and amount paid in a bash script of a few lines.
