Mpesa-Daraja-Api

Integrating the Daraja-Api with Python language.

Credentials.py file

This file contains the consumer key and the consumer secrete key that is provided by Safaricom for test purposes. https://developer.safaricom.co.ke/

mpesa.py file

The main file that contains various functions with different tasks according to the Daraja api requirements.

format_time()

The datetime module in python returns a date in %Y-%m-%d %H%M%S format. However the Daraja Api Docs dictates the timestamp format be in %Y%m%d%H%M%S format. The function converts the current time according to the Api requirements.

decode_password()

It utilizes the base64 import that that encodes and decodes the password. The password is the combination of a business shortcode, the passkey, and the formated time (Daraja Api Docs).

generate_access_token()

This function authenticates the request mate through the customer key and the customer secrete through HTTPBasicAuth. The GET request made to the safaricom through the access_token url, gives a response that has the access token and the expiry time. The access token is then filtered out.

mpesa()

This function makes a GET request through the api_url and in relation to our request body, a response is provided by safaricom. Below is a response to a successfull request.

Requirements

1. requests module
2. datetime module
3. base64 module