plaid-go

The official Go client library for the Plaid API. The library is now generated from our OpenAPI schema. If you are currently on a manually-written version of this library from August 2021 or earlier, see the migration guide.

The latest version of the library supports only the latest version of the Plaid API (currently 2020-09-14).

For more information about the Plaid API, including reference documentation, see the Plaid API docs.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Getting Started
  • Calling Endpoints
  • Dates
  • Errors
• Examples
• Migration Guide
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Library versions follow Semantic Versioning ("SemVer") and are formatted as v1.0.0. The plaid-go client library is typically updated on a monthly basis, and the canonical source for the latest version number is the client library changelog. New versions are published as GitHub tags, not as Releases. New versions are also published on pkg.go.dev. Make sure to look at the highest tagged version.

As of v1.0.0, we've moved to support GOMODULES.

Edit your go.mod to include github.com/plaid/plaid-go/v25 {VERSION}

$ go get github.com/plaid/plaid-go/v25@{VERSION}

All users are strongly recommended to use a recent version of the library, as older versions do not contain support for new endpoints and fields. For more details, see the Migration Guide.

Getting Started

Calling Endpoints

To call an endpoint, you must create a Plaid API client. Here's how to configure it:

configuration := plaid.NewConfiguration()
configuration.AddDefaultHeader("PLAID-CLIENT-ID", {VALUE})
configuration.AddDefaultHeader("PLAID-SECRET", {VALUE})
configuration.UseEnvironment(plaid.Production)
client := plaid.NewAPIClient(configuration)

Get your client_id and secret from your dashboard account.

Each endpoint will require an appropriate request model, and will return either the response model or an error.

Dates

Dates and datetimes in requests, which are represented as strings in the APIs, are represented in this version of the Go client library as time.Time types. For more information, see the Go documentation on the time package.

Time zone information is required for request fields that accept datetimes. Failing to include time zone information (or specifying a string, instead of an instance of the time package) will result in an error.

If the API reference documentation for a request field specifies format: date, the following is acceptable:

import (
    "time"
)

const (
    // Choose any arbitrary date in the desired format
    YYYYMMDD = "2006-01-02"
)

myDate := time.Date(2019, time.December, 6, 22, 35, 49, 0, time.UTC).Format(YYYYMMDD)
// Returns 2019-12-06

If the API reference documentation for a request field specifies format: date-time, the following is acceptable:

import (
  "time"
)

myDate := time.Date(2019, time.December, 6, 22, 35, 49, 0, time.UTC)
// Returns 2019-12-06 22:35:49 +0000 UTC

Errors

In the case one of the endpoints you call returns an error, you can get the Plaid error object with the following:

response, httpResponse, err := client.PlaidApi.Endpoint(...)
plaidErr, err := plaid.ToPlaidError(err)
fmt.Println(plaidErr.ErrorMessage)

If you need to set up specific plaid errors to test your code, there is a helper function you can use to create a GenericOpenAPIError with embedded PlaidError:

	plaidError := plaid.NewPlaidError(plaid.PLAIDERRORTYPE_ITEM_ERROR, "PRODUCT_NOT_READY", "", plaid.NullableString{})
	genericOpenAPIError := plaid.MakeGenericOpenAPIError([]byte{}, "400 Bad Request", *plaidError)

Examples

The sections below show examples for some common API calls in Go. For more examples, see the API reference docs.

Get Link Token to initialize Link

user := plaid.LinkTokenCreateRequestUser{
    ClientUserId: "USER_ID_FROM_YOUR_DB",
}
request := plaid.NewLinkTokenCreateRequest(
  "Plaid Test",
  "en",
  []plaid.CountryCode{plaid.COUNTRYCODE_US},
  user,
)
request.SetProducts([]plaid.Products{plaid.PRODUCTS_AUTH})
request.SetLinkCustomizationName("default")
request.SetWebhook("https://webhook-uri.com")
request.SetRedirectUri("https://domainname.com/oauth-page.html")
request.SetAccountFilters(plaid.LinkTokenAccountFilters{
  Depository: &plaid.DepositoryFilter{
    AccountSubtypes: []plaid.AccountSubtype{plaid.ACCOUNTSUBTYPE_CHECKING, plaid.ACCOUNTSUBTYPE_SAVINGS},
  },
})
resp, _, err := testClient.PlaidApi.LinkTokenCreate(ctx).LinkTokenCreateRequest(*request).Execute()

linkToken := resp.GetLinkToken()

Create an Item using Link

Exchange a public_token from Plaid Link for a Plaid access token:

exchangePublicTokenReq := plaid.NewItemPublicTokenExchangeRequest(sandboxPublicTokenResp.GetPublicToken())
exchangePublicTokenResp, _, err := client.PlaidApi.ItemPublicTokenExchange(ctx).ItemPublicTokenExchangeRequest(
  *exchangePublicTokenReq,
).Execute()
accessToken := exchangePublicTokenResp.GetAccessToken()

Retrieve transactions (preferred method)

request := plaid.NewTransactionsSyncRequest(
  accessToken
)

transactionsResp, _, err := testClient.PlaidApi.TransactionsSync(ctx).TransactionsSyncRequest(*request).Execute()

Retrieve transactions (older method)

const iso8601TimeFormat = "2006-01-02"
startDate := time.Now().Add(-365 * 24 * time.Hour).Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
endDate := time.Now().Format(iso8601TimeFormat)

request := plaid.NewTransactionsGetRequest(
  accessToken,
  startDate,
  endDate,
)

options := plaid.TransactionsGetRequestOptions{
  Count:  plaid.PtrInt32(100),
  Offset: plaid.PtrInt32(0),
}

request.SetOptions(options)

transactionsResp, _, err := testClient.PlaidApi.TransactionsGet(ctx).TransactionsGetRequest(*request).Execute()

Retrieve real-time balance data

balancesGetReq := plaid.NewAccountsBalanceGetRequest(accessToken)

balancesGetResp, _, err = testClient.PlaidApi.AccountsBalanceGet(ctx).AccountsBalanceGetRequest(
  *balancesGetReq,
).Execute()

Create a Dwolla bank account token

Exchange a Plaid Link public_token for an API access_token. Then exchange that access_token and the Plaid Link account_id (received along with the public_token) for a Dwolla processor token:

import (
    "context"
    "os"

    "github.com/plaid/plaid-go/v25/plaid"
)

configuration := plaid.NewConfiguration()
configuration.AddDefaultHeader("PLAID-CLIENT-ID", os.Getenv("CLIENT_ID"))
configuration.AddDefaultHeader("PLAID-SECRET", os.Getenv("SECRET"))
configuration.UseEnvironment(plaid.Sandbox)

client := plaid.NewAPIClient(configuration)
ctx := context.Background()

// If not testing in Sandbox, remove these four lines and instead use a publicToken obtained from Link
sandboxInstitution := "ins_109508"
testProducts := []string{"auth"}
sandboxPublicTokenResp, _, err := client.PlaidApi.SandboxPublicTokenCreate(ctx).SandboxPublicTokenCreateRequest(
  *plaid.NewSandboxPublicTokenCreateRequest(
    sandboxInstitution,
    testProducts,
  ),
).Execute()
publicToken := sandboxPublicTokenResp.GetPublicToken()

// Exchange the publicToken for an accessToken
exchangePublicTokenResp, _, err := client.PlaidApi.ItemPublicTokenExchange(ctx).ItemPublicTokenExchangeRequest(
  *plaid.NewItemPublicTokenExchangeRequest(publicToken),
).Execute()
accessToken := exchangePublicTokenResp.GetAccessToken()

// Get Accounts
accountsGetResp, _, err := client.PlaidApi.AccountsGet(ctx).AccountsGetRequest(
  *plaid.NewAccountsGetRequest(accessToken),
).Execute()
accountID := accountsGetResp.GetAccounts()[0].GetAccountId()

// Create processor token
processorTokenCreateResp, _, err := client.PlaidApi.ProcessorTokenCreate(ctx).ProcessorTokenCreateRequest(
  *plaid.NewProcessorTokenCreateRequest(accessToken, accountID, "dwolla"),
).Execute()

Migration guide

Post-August 2021 to latest

Migrating from a version released on or after August 2021 to a recent version should involve very minor integration changes. Many customers will not need to make changes to their integrations at all. To see a list of all potentially-breaking changes since your current version, see the client library changelog and search for "Breaking changes in this version". Breaking changes are annotated at the top of each major version header.

Pre-August 2021 to latest

The client library was rewritten in August 2021 to be generated from OpenAPI. To update, you will need to update your integration as follows:

Client initialization

From:

import (
  "github.com/plaid/plaid-go/plaid"
)

client, err := plaid.NewClient(plaid.ClientOptions{
  os.Getenv("PLAID_CLIENT_ID"),
  os.Getenv("PLAID_SECRET"),
  plaid.Sandbox,
})

To:

import (
  "github.com/plaid/plaid-go/plaid"
)

configuration := plaid.NewConfiguration()
configuration.AddDefaultHeader("PLAID-CLIENT-ID", os.Getenv("CLIENT_ID"))
configuration.AddDefaultHeader("PLAID-SECRET", os.Getenv("SECRET"))
configuration.UseEnvironment(plaid.Sandbox)

client := plaid.NewAPIClient(configuration)

Endpoints

All endpoint requests now take a request model and the functions have been renamed to move the verb to the end (e.g. GetBalances is now BalancesGet). We now accept a context object in order to give the caller more control over the http request.

From:

response, err := client.CreateSandboxPublicToken(SandboxInstitution, TestProducts)

To:

response, httpResponse, err := client.PlaidApi.SandboxPublicTokenCreate(context.Background()).SandboxPublicTokenCreateRequest(
    *plaid.NewSandboxPublicTokenCreateRequest(
      SandboxInstitution,
      TestProducts,
    ),
   ).Execute()

Errors

From:

response, err := client.CreateSandboxPublicToken(SandboxInstitution, TestProducts)

plaidErr := err.(plaid.Error)

To:

response, httpResponse, err := client.PlaidApi.SandboxPublicTokenCreate(context.Background()).SandboxPublicTokenCreateRequest(
    *plaid.NewSandboxPublicTokenCreateRequest(
      SandboxInstitution,
      TestProducts,
    ),
   ).Execute()

plaidErr, _ := plaid.ToPlaidError(err)

Balances example (Old way)

// get balances for all accounts
balanceResp, err := client.GetBalances(accessToken)

// get balances for selected accounts
options := GetBalancesOptions{
  AccountIDs: []string{balanceResp.Accounts[0].AccountID},
}
balanceResp, err = client.GetBalancesWithOptions(accessToken, options)

Balances example (New way)

balancesGetReq := plaid.NewAccountsBalanceGetRequest(accessToken)

balancesGetResp, _, err = testClient.PlaidApi.AccountsBalanceGet(ctx).AccountsBalanceGetRequest(
  *balancesGetReq,
).Execute()

Using optional parameters example (old way)

const iso8601TimeFormat = "2006-01-02"
startDate := time.Now().Add(-365 * 24 * time.Hour).Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
endDate := time.Now().Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
transactionsResp, err := client.GetTransactions(accessToken, startDate, endDate)

// Or, using optional parameters:
startDate := time.Now().Add(-365 * 24 * time.Hour).Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
endDate := time.Now().Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
options := GetTransactionsOptions{
  StartDate:  startDate,
  EndDate:    endDate,
  AccountIDs: []string{},
  Count:      2,
  Offset:     1,
}
transactionsResp, err := client.GetTransactionsWithOptions(accessToken, options)

Using optional parameters example (new way)

const iso8601TimeFormat = "2006-01-02"
startDate := time.Now().Add(-365 * 24 * time.Hour).Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
endDate := time.Now().Format(iso8601TimeFormat)
options := plaid.TransactionsGetRequestOptions{
    IncludePersonalFinanceCategory := true,
}
request.SetOptions(options)

request := plaid.NewTransactionsGetRequest(
  accessToken,
  startDate,
  endDate,
)

options := plaid.TransactionsGetRequestOptions{
  Count:  plaid.PtrInt32(100),
  Offset: plaid.PtrInt32(0),
  IncludePersonalFinanceCategory: true,
}

request.SetOptions(options)

transactionsResp, _, err := testClient.PlaidApi.TransactionsGet(ctx).TransactionsGetRequest(*request).Execute()

Contributing

Please see Contributing for guidelines and instructions for local development.

License

MIT