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?On a Friday evening, not too long ago, I was lamenting the shortcomings of the various services I've used to sell my digital book from my personal website. Digital goods sales should be a solved problem by now, but I ran into all sorts of issues when trying to send updates to customers and integrate properly with Google Analytics.
Long story <http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/01/18/python-and-flask-are-ridiculously-powerful/>
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short, I took two hours and wrote a replacement using Python, Flask,
SQLAlchemy, and Stripe (as the payment processor). bull
is to set up
on your own domain. Why does the fact that bull
runs on your own
domain matter? Because it makes Google Analytics happy and report
conversions properly.
The only things you need to get started using bull
are a Stripe
account (free) and a web server (free?).
pip install bull
. This installs the bull
command, which helps
setup your environmentbull setup
. This creates a directory named bull
with the
following contents:app.py
: the main application script. get_app
can be used to
run bull
as a WSGI applicationconfig.py
: bull
's configuration file. This must be edited to
contain your installation-specific configuration details.files
directory: The directory that contains the files for your
digital productsscripts/populate_db
as a
model)/reports
by running
scripts/create_user.py
bull
to your web server's configurationbull
supports simple sales analytics at the /reports
endpoint.
It requires authorization, which in turn requires you to create (at
least one) user using the scripts/create_user.py
script. To see the
reports, hit /login
, log in, and from then on you can go directly to
/reports
to see reporting data. You should be good to go after that,
and no one else will be able to see the reports.
If for some reason you need to logout, there is also a /logout
endpoint which will log you out (which should use HTTP POST instead of
GET, but whatever).
Reporting includes:
Simply create a templates
directory and create a file of the same
name as the template you want to replace.
bull
has a (small) suite of tests that are run via TravisCI, but can
(and should) also be tested manually once installed. Run
python app.py
and browse to http://localhost:5000/test/1. You should
see a single "Buy" button, which should be completely functional
(assuming you have at least one product in your database). Enter
Stripe's test credit card number (4242 4242 4242 4242). You should be
successfully directed to a "success.html" page with your download link.
If your product is in the files
directory, you'll be able to
download it by clicking the link.
Don't run app.py
in production. The web server it uses is not
meant for such a purpose. Instead, deploy as you would normally deploy
an WSGI application. See Flask's documentation <http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/>
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subject.
Still need to add better documentation and (possibly) deployment
information. All of this is coming. I just wanted to get bull
out as
fast as possible so that those who know what they're doing can make use
of it.
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