# PayPal API Design Guidelines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/paypal/  
**Provider:** API Style Guides — https://apis.io/providers/style-guides/  
**Base URL:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KuSh/api-standards/master/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/paypal/api-standards

PayPal API Design Guidelines is one of 11 APIs that [API Style Guides](https://apis.io/providers/style-guides/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include REST, HATEOAS, PayPal, and Payments.

PayPal's API style guide covering service design principles, HTTP methods, hypermedia, naming, URI structure, JSON schema and types, error handling, versioning, and deprecation. The original repository at github.com/paypal/api-standards was archived; the content is preserved in community forks.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **StyleGuide** — https://github.com/paypal/api-standards
- **ArchiveMirror** — https://github.com/KuSh/api-standards
- **PatternsLibrary** — https://github.com/KuSh/api-standards/tree/master/patterns
- **Scope**

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## Tags

REST, HATEOAS, PayPal, Payments

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