normalize stripe emails

deal with unsanitized stripe emails easily: force them to lowercase, or save a mapping

why?

• your current customer emails were not case-sanitized on collection
• stripe customer email search is case-sensitive (reference)
• this is an alternative to adding an extra step in which all components refer to a record of lowercase emails, along with their capitalized counterparts

how?

clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/maxtheaxe/normalize-stripe-emails.git

install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

set up stripe API key

create a text file in the same directory named .env, type in STRIPE_API_KEY=<your API key>

run the script (optional arguments are bracketed)

python3 normalize.py [--oversight] [--verbose] [--testmode] [--testdata] [--revert]

notes

• use at your own risk
• automatically creates mapping of original emails to new ones, exported to a csv
• if your customer uses different account and billing emails, this will only change their account email
• supports manual approval of changes (with --oversight flag)
• supports test data generation (with --testdata flag)
• supports "test mode", in which changes are not pushed to stripe (with --testmode flag)
• test mode can also be used to create a mapping, if you'd rather not replace customer data, and would instead like to access it using an external record of lowercase emails
• supports reversion of normalization, using generated mapping (with --revert flag)
• PRs are welcome