This package provides an API for the MaxMind minFraud Score, Insights, and Factors web services.
To install the minfraud
module, type:
$ pip install minfraud
If you are not able to use pip, you may also use easy_install from the source directory:
$ easy_install .
Complete API documentation is available on Read the Docs.
To use this API, create a new minfraud.Client
object. The constructor
takes your MaxMind user ID and license key:
>>> client = Client(42, 'licensekey')
The Factors service is called with the factors()
method:
>>> factors = client.factors({'device': {'ip_address': '81.2.69.160'}})
The Insights service is called with the insights()
method:
>>> insights = client.insights({'device': {'ip_address': '81.2.69.160'}})
The Score web service is called with the score()
method:
>>> score = client.score({'device': {'ip_address': '81.2.69.160'}})
Each of these methods takes a dictionary representing the transaction to be sent
to the web service. The structure of this dictionary should be in the format
specified in the REST API documentation.
The ip_address
in the device
sub-dictionary is required. All other
fields are optional.
Assuming validation has not been disabled, before sending the transaction to
the web service, the transaction dictionary structure and content will be
validated. If validation fails, a minfraud.InvalidRequestError
will be raised.
If the dictionary is valid, a request will be made to the web service. If the request succeeds, a model object for the service response will be returned. If the request fails, one of the errors listed below will be raised.
The possible errors are:
minfraud.AuthenticationError
- This will be raised when the server is unable to authenticate the request, e.g., if the license key or user ID is invalid.minfraud.InsufficientFundsError
- This will be raised when your account is out of funds.minfraud.InvalidRequestError
- This will be raised when the server rejects the request as invalid for another reason, such as a missing or reserved IP address. It is also raised if validation of the request before it is sent to the server fails.minfraud.HttpError
- This will be raised when an unexpected HTTP error occurs such as a firewall interfering with the request to the server.minfraud.MinFraudError
- This will be raised when some other error occurs such as unexpected content from the server. This also serves as the base class for the above errors.
>>> from minfraud import Client
>>>
>>> client = Client(42, 'licensekey')
>>>
>>> request = {
>>> 'device': {
>>> 'ip_address': '81.2.69.160',
>>> 'accept_language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
>>> 'session_age': 3600,
>>> 'session_id': 'a333a4e127f880d8820e56a66f40717c',
>>> 'user_agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.89 Safari/537.36'
>>> },
>>> 'event': {
>>> 'shop_id': 's2123',
>>> 'type': 'purchase',
>>> 'transaction_id': 'txn3134133',
>>> 'time': '2014-04-12T23:20:50.052+00:00'
>>> },
>>> 'account': {
>>> 'user_id': '3132',
>>> 'username_md5': '570a90bfbf8c7eab5dc5d4e26832d5b1'
>>> },
>>> 'email': {
>>> 'address': '977577b140bfb7c516e4746204fbdb01',
>>> 'domain': 'maxmind.com'
>>> },
>>> 'billing': {
>>> 'first_name': 'Jane',
>>> 'last_name': 'Doe',
>>> 'company': 'Company',
>>> 'address': '101 Address Rd.',
>>> 'address_2': 'Unit 5',
>>> 'city': 'Hamden',
>>> 'region': 'CT',
>>> 'country': 'US',
>>> 'postal': '06510',
>>> 'phone_country_code': '1',
>>> 'phone_number': '323-123-4321',
>>> },
>>> 'shipping': {
>>> 'first_name': 'John',
>>> 'last_name': 'Doe',
>>> 'company': 'ShipCo',
>>> 'address': '322 Ship Addr. Ln.',
>>> 'address_2': 'St. 43',
>>> 'city': 'New Haven',
>>> 'region': 'CT',
>>> 'country': 'US',
>>> 'postal': '06510',
>>> 'phone_country_code': '1',
>>> 'phone_number': '403-321-2323',
>>> 'delivery_speed': 'same_day',
>>> },
>>> 'credit_card': {
>>> 'bank_phone_country_code': '1',
>>> 'avs_result': 'Y',
>>> 'bank_phone_number': '800-342-1232',
>>> 'last_4_digits': '7643',
>>> 'cvv_result': 'N',
>>> 'bank_name': 'Bank of No Hope',
>>> 'issuer_id_number': '323132'
>>> },
>>> 'payment': {
>>> 'decline_code': 'invalid number',
>>> 'was_authorized': False,
>>> 'processor': 'stripe'
>>> },
>>> 'shopping_cart': [{
>>> 'category': 'pets',
>>> 'quantity': 2,
>>> 'price': 20.43,
>>> 'item_id': 'lsh12'
>>> }, {
>>> 'category': 'beauty',
>>> 'quantity': 1,
>>> 'price': 100.0,
>>> 'item_id': 'ms12'
>>> }],
>>> 'order': {
>>> 'affiliate_id': 'af12',
>>> 'referrer_uri': 'http://www.amazon.com/',
>>> 'subaffiliate_id': 'saf42',
>>> 'discount_code': 'FIRST',
>>> 'currency': 'USD',
>>> 'amount': 323.21
>>> },
>>> 'custom_inputs': {
>>> 'section': 'news',
>>> 'num_of_previous_purchases': 19,
>>> 'discount': 3.2,
>>> 'previous_user': True
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> client.score(request)
Score(...)
>>>
>>> client.insights(request)
Insights(...)
>>>
>>> client.factors(request)
Factors(...)
This code requires Python 2.6+ or 3.3+. Older versions are not supported. This library has been tested with CPython and PyPy.
The minFraud Python API uses Semantic Versioning.
Please report all issues with this code using the GitHub issue tracker.
If you are having an issue with a MaxMind service that is not specific to the client API, please contact MaxMind support for assistance.
This software is Copyright © 2015-2017 by MaxMind, Inc.
This is free software, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.