escpos-web

Python based HTTP api for interaction with ESCPOS based printers. Basically just a web api for python-escpos

Setup

pip install -r requirements.txt
cp config.json.example config.json
Set config.json parameters
Point to your printer
- Find your vendor and device IDs using lsusb
- cp printer.py.example printer.py
- Add your IDs in place of 1234 in printer.py

Send a post request to /control with a JSON serialised array of command dicts. (Check client.py for examples)

Command name: text

data parameters:

Parameter	Type	Usage	Optional
`text`	`str`	The text to print	Required
`size`	`int`	The size of the text	Optional, defaults to `2`
`newline`	`boolean`	Whether a newline should be printed at the end of the text	Optional, defaults to `true`

Command name: image

data parameters:

Parameter	Type	Usage	Optional
`image`	`str`	The image to print. Must be either a local file mapped in `config.json` or a url.	Required

Command name: qr

data parameters:

Parameter	Type	Usage	Optional
`text`	`str`	The contents of the QR code	Required

Command name: cut

data parameters: