Weirdly enough I was able to work around this outage by using their new API endpoint URL api-m.paypal.com / api-m.sandbox.paypal.com instead of api.paypal.com / api.sandbox.paypal.com. No more 403s in the auth endpoint using the new URL that they use in their updated documentation: https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/authentication
This URL change doesn't seem well communicated at all, but some people have gotten an email but there's no such details available officially anywhere publicly as far as I can tell.
Affected Products:
Account
Crypto
Xoom
Hyperwallet
Venmo
Affected APIs:
REST APIs > Payments
Initial Notification:
Affected Regions: Global
We are experiencing a system issue that may be impacting Multiple Products in our Production Environment.
Our technical teams are actively working towards resolving the issue.
Update:
We are continuing to monitor the impact on multiple
components in our production environment. We observe
mitigation as of Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:42 GMT
Our technical teams have identified the External root cause
and are actively working with the vendor to mitigate the
impact as quickly as possible. We will continue to provide
updates as the situation progresses.
Affected Regions: Global
Apr 8, 21:51 UTC
This URL change doesn't seem well communicated at all, but some people have gotten an email but there's no such details available officially anywhere publicly as far as I can tell.
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/REST-APIs/Migrating-api-... https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/NVP-SOAP-APIs/will-new-c...
https://www.paypal-status.com/incident/production
(Take it with healthy skepticism however, nothing's confirmed)
edit: apparently a lot of stuff got a big spike of down-ness. Super weird:
https://downdetector.com/