drbig/snippetd

Snippetd turns POST requests into a thermal printer receipts.

snippetd

Snippetd is a micro-service that takes POST requests and schedules them to be printed on an ESC/POS-compatible ("receipt") thermal printer.

Current version: 0.8.0

Main things it does:

• Wraps each snippet in a nice header and footer (can be turned off per req.)
• Does basic length sanity checks, and has text and image modes
• Queues messages for printing, in case you really want to kill your printer
• Can also archive snippets with requests metadata
• And with archive now can also reprint (by checksum)
• Has expvared basic statistics
• In general tries to do the least and be reliable

What it doesn't do:

• Cares about security in any manner; Feel free to add a key/TLS/etc.
• It's not and will never be an "enterprise solution"

Showcase

None for now, given nobody will use this anyway :P

But this is a part of a larger project, with the second element being the soup2escpos. Been using this tandem for less than a month but so far I'm getting what I wanted, duh.

Contributing

Follow the usual GitHub development model:

1. Clone the repository
2. Make your changes on a separate branch
3. Make sure you run gofmt and go test before committing
4. Make a pull request

See licensing for legalese.

Licensing

Standard two-clause BSD license, see LICENSE.txt for details.

Any contributions will be licensed under the same conditions.

Copyright (c) 2019 - 2021 Piotr S. Staszewski