This plugin enables c-lightning nodes to start one or several small webserver via the command line on specified port. The webserver is based on flask and exposes the invoice API call.

Therefor people can query for an invoice which they can use to pay. The plugin can be started with lightningd by adding the following --plugin option (adjusting the path to wherever the plugins are actually stored):

lightningd --plugin=/path/to/plugins/donations.py

By default the plugin will automatically start a webserver serving the donations page on port 8088.

The following command line options are registered by the plugin and can be used to customize its behavior:

Command line option	Description
`--donation-autostart`	Should the donation server start automatically? (default: `true`)
`--donation-web-port`	Which port should the donation server listen to? (default: `8088`)

Once the plugin is active you can run lightning-cli help donationserver to learn about the command line API:

Controls a donationserver with start/stop/restart/list on port.

A Simple HTTP Server is created that can serve a donation webpage and allow to issue invoices. The plugin takes one of the following three commands {start/stop/restart} as the first agument By default the plugin starts the server on port 8088. This can however be changed with the port argument.

This means after starting lightningd together with the plugin you can run: lightning-cli donationserver start and access the server at http://localhost:8088/donation (in case you run your lightning node at localhost)

About the plugin

You can see a demo of the plugin on the authors website:

This plugin was created and is maintained by Rene Pickhardt. Thus Rene Pickhardt is the copyright owner of this plugin. It shall serve as an educational resource on his Youtube channel.

The plugin is licensed like the rest of c-lightning with BSD-MIT license and comes without any warrenty.

If you like my work feel free to support me on patreon.