pystrike 0.0.1

Python library for interacting with Acinq's Strike lightning network payment web service.

pystrike

Python wrapper for Acinq's Strike lightning network payment service.

Use

Initialize the Charge class:

Charge = charge_class_maker(api_key="YOURAPIKEY", api_base="https://api.dev.strike.acinq.co/api/v1/")

Create a new charge:

charge = Charge(
        currency=Charge.CURRENCY_BTC,
        amount=42000,                   # Amount in Satoshi
        description="1%20Blockaccino",
    )

Retrieve a payment request:

payment_request = charge.payment_request

# Now `payment_request` might be something like "lntb420u1pdsdxfepp58hgsk3qeggjfx66hxjv3tkk2fmq9k4srkq6z4h69a33euns3rzwsdq4xysyymr0vd4kzcmrd9hx7cqp2fs6hglhgfax7depekep53kmlgkswhcvxlmju3e4k0cdex6ml4xpygcxzt93julus09hj30fruzw9l65n5uktqe9khmlk8uh8pvl3f7sp3026hz"

At this point, you would present the payment_request to your customer. You can then reference charge.paid to determine whether the charge has been paid.

The charge.paid is a boolean @property method which opperates according to the following pseudocode:

class Charge():
    # ...

    def __init__(...):
        # ...
        self.paid = False
        # ...

    # ...

    @property
    def paid(self):
        # If self.paid is False:
            # Ask the server if the charge is paid and update self.paid

        # return self.paid