A Python binding for the web monetization Javascript API

For this hackathon, I'm thinking of building a python binding for the web monetization API. Here's what I have in mind:

According to the docs, if you want to check if a user is web monetized, you check the state using:

document.monetization.state

You would then proceed to implement your logic based on the state.

As a backend python developer, it would be cool if I could do that in python. If I'm using Flask for example, and I have a monetized route, I would want to write something like:

from monetize import check_state

@app.route('/monetized')
def monetized_page():
    state = check_state()
    if state == 'started':
        # implement logic to offer monetized content
    else:
        # do something else

This is a simple example but that's the general idea - to have all the methods exposed by the js API in python. Javascript would of course still be working behind the scenes once this gets to the browser.

I believe something like this would make it easier to implement the monetization API for python developers working with web frameworks like flask and django.

Comments

[Ben Greenberg]

When I saw this hackathon my first thought was how could this be made relevant to backend devs, as a backend dev myself. This is a great idea! Excited to see the progress on it.

[Ben Greenberg]

You inspired me actually, and I'm putting together some Rack middleware to handle the web monetization API for the Ruby backend developer :)

update, it's posted!

Rack Middleware for the Web Monetization API

Ben Greenberg ・ May 14 ・ 3 min read

#gftwhackathon #ruby

[Kelvin Wangonya]

Wow, that was fast 😀

[Ben Halpern]

Neat!