Building a Django + Stripe integration today I kept hitting the SignatureVerificationError.

According to their webhook’s documentation, they recommend something like this:

@csrf_exempt
def my_webhook_view(request):
  payload = request.body
  sig_header = request.META['HTTP_STRIPE_SIGNATURE']
  event = None

  try:
    event = stripe.Webhook.construct_event(
      payload, sig_header, endpoint_secret
    )
  except ValueError as e:
    # Invalid payload
    return HttpResponse(status=400)
  except stripe.error.SignatureVerificationError as e:
    # Invalid signature
    return HttpResponse(status=400)

  # Do something with event

  return HttpResponse(status=200)

I think would work fine with python2, but in my case the signature being generated never matched the expected signature hence triggering the exception stripe.error.SignatureVerificationError

The solution is to utf8 decode the payload, on line 3, change:

payload = request.body

payload = request.body.decode('utf-8')

That did the trick, hope it can save someone some time.