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This comes from a stale PR on the c-lightning issue tracker and after talking with Rene, I decided to give it an official place to live.
Invoice Service (for Donations) plugin
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.
Run the plugin with:
lightningd --plugin=/path/to/lightning/contrib/plugins/donations/donations.py
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:33506/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.