Retrieve Stripe customer by E-mail | Django

Question

I'm trying a way to figure out how to retrieve the Stripe Customer by e-mail:

In my views, I wrote the below code:

    if stripe.Customer.retrieve(email=request.POST['email']):
        customer = stripe.Customer.retrieve(id)
    else:
        customer = stripe.Customer.create(
            email=request.POST['email'],
            name=request.POST['nickname'],
        )

    charge = stripe.Charge.create(
        customer=customer,
        amount=500,
        currency='brl',
        description='First Test Ever!',
        source=request.POST['stripeToken'],
    )

Basically, if the customer is found by their e-mail, so I don't need to create a new account. Otherwise, the account is created. The last step is to charge either the new customer or the existent one.

The code is not working properly. I assume this is the wrong way to search for an existent customer.

Any help?

Thank you!

Does this answer your question? [Stripe, is it possible to search a customer by their email?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26767150/stripe-is-it-possible-to-search-a-customer-by-their-email) — JPG, Jul 25 '20 at 15:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '20 at 16:20

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You can't retrieve a single customer by email because you can have multiple customers with the same email address - it is not a unique value.

Instead, you can list [0] customers matching that email and then decide for yourself if any of the results are the one you want.

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/list#list_customers-email

answered Jul 26 '20 at 16:20

Brendan Moore

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Thank you! As I'm preventing users to create multiple accounts with the same e-mail, the list only returns 1 record. – Felipe Dourado Jul 28 '20 at 02:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '22 at 09:56

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With "stripe.Customer.list()" and "stripe.Customer.search()", you can get customers by email.

answered Jul 19 '22 at 09:56

Super Kai - Kazuya Ito

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