REST api?

[Gsuz]

Has anyone done any work toward building a REST api around this script? It shouldn't be much effort. Wanted to check before starting on my own.

[m3nu]

Not that I know of. If you mean a full hosted service, there are a few similar commercial ones. Matching them would be a major effort though. You'd probably need a new way to match fields, as mosts users won't use Regex.

[m3nu]

If you just want to use the current system, you will still need a web interface to manage templates, users and files somehow. That would take about a week to add.

[Gsuz]

Thx fór the reply. I did manage to create a simple api using flask. Receives a file, iterates through it and returns the result ins Json. The editing of templates should be easy to add with some html editor if you control the server anyway.

[m3nu]

Whats your use-case for this? Using the Python lib with something else?

I can see some use in a web service for making the lib easier to use and involving more people to make templates. But I also worry that without a different system to make templates/teach it what to extract it will still be too hard to use.

[Gsuz]

Yes. Basically to handle query's from a web app which has a bunch of invoices to autofill some forms.

[m3nu]

I see. So it would be a microservice.

If you have some code, we could host it under the invoice-x organization, and link it in some places, so others can improve and use it. Would just need to have some kind of permissive license and a README, so new contributors can find their way around. I can later set up testing and other admin stuff.

[gwendall]

+1

Any news about that ?

[GeorgeMihalache]

Any news?

[rmilecki]

I have & use trivial Flask based web API, I'll try to clean it up and share next month.

[GeorgeMihalache]

I have & use trivial Flask based web API, I'll try to clean it up and share next month

This is very good news for those unfamiliar with the python environment. Thanks