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		aytekin on Feb 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PayPal CTO Resigns My biggest pain: It is 2016 but we still have to log into PayPal to cancel subscriptions manually when someone requests to downgrade their account. API does not support it because our subscription numbers start with "S-" which seems to happen with old PayPal accounts.

filsmick on Feb 9, 2016 [–]

Couldn't you automate it anyway?

Mechanize and PhantomJS can be really helpful to script things that aren't covered by a public API.

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