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This is a handy guide to cancelling stripe subscriptions.

# Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production. # See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys import stripe stripe.api_key = "sk_test_51ODvHtB26msLKqCAPBAo1qkBBuIfT5tQBX6YFWCLMsPixIExxITCRVa9tNCIqkdQS8olhR79NYXsFWBPKsM3LbGO00zEcNQfNI" stripe.Subscription.modify( "sub_49ty4767H20z6a", cancel_at_period_end=True, )

You can even inverse it by flipping True to False and re activate the subscription.

Today I am working on fokais.com, trying to get to a point where I can launch by workig through stripe integrations. This is my first time using stripe, so there has been quite a bit to learn, and I am probably building in more than I need to before launching, but I am learning, and not in a rush to launch.

I am building the fokais backent in python primarilyt with fastapi and sqlmodel on sqlite. My billing integration is going to be all Stripe.

Here is a link to the stripe docs for your refrence, especially if you want to see how to cancel subscriptions in other languages. They include code samples for many popular languages.

This is the part of the user model that includes the cancel and reactivate methods. It pretty much follows the stripe guide.

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You can find your customers next billing date through the stripe api by using Invoice. and passing in customer, customer_details, subscription, or schedule.

import stripe stripe.api_key = "sk_test_51ODvHtB26msLKqCAPBAo1qkBBuIfT5tQBX6YFWCLMsPixIExxITCRVa9tNCIqkdQS8olhR79NYXsFWBPKsM3LbGO00zEcNQfNI" invoice = stripe.Invoice.upcoming(customer="cus_NeZwdNtLEOXuvB")

Within the invoice, you can find the next_payment_attempt as a epoch.

Stripe has it’s own query language for querying data. I’m just getting into using it and it seems pretty good so far. I needed to lookup the price for products. I was able to find prices for my product using the python api as shown below.

Prefix Description Notes ac_ Platform Client ID Identifier for an auth code/client id. acct_ Account ID Identifier for an Account object. aliacc_ Alipay Account ID Identifier for an Alipay account. ba_ Bank Account ID Identifier for a Bank Account object. btok_ Bank Token ID Identifier for a Bank Token object. card_ Card ID Identifier for a Card object. cbtxn_ Customer Balance Transaction ID Identifier for a Customer Balance Transaction object. ch_ Charge ID Identifier for a Charge object. cn_ Credit Note ID Identifier for a Credit Note object. cs_live_ Live Checkout Session ID Identifier for a checkout Session object in live mode. cs_test_ Test Checkout Session ID Identifier for a checkout Session object in test mode. cus_ Customer ID Identifier for a Customer object. dp_ Dispute ID Identifier for a Dispute object. evt_ Event ID Identifier for an Event object. fee_ Application Fee ID Identifier for an Application Fee object. file_ File ID Identifier for a File object. fr_ Application Fee Refund ID Identifier for an Application Fee Refund object. iauth_ Issuing Authorization ID Identifier for an Issuing Authorization object. ic_ Issuing Card ID Identifier for an Issuing Card object. ich_ Issuing Card Holder ID Identifier for an Issuing Card Holder object. idp_ Issuing Dispute ID Identifier for an Issuing Dispute object. ii_ Invoice Item ID Identifier for an Invoice Item object. il_ Invoice Line Item ID Identifier for a Invoice Line Item object. in_ Invoice ID Identifier for an Invoice object. ipi_ Issuing Transaction ID Identifier for an Issuing Transaction object. link_ File Link ID Identifier for a File Link object. or_ Order ID Identifier for an Order object. orret_ Order Return ID Identifier for an Order Return object. person_ Person ID Identifier for a Person object. pi_ Payment Intent ID Identifier for a Payment Intent object. pk_live_ Live public key Public key in a live environment. pk_test_ Test public key Public key in a test environment. pm_ Payment Method ID Identifier for a Payment Method object. po_ Payout ID Identifier for a Payout object. price_ Price ID Identifier for a Price object. prod_ Product ID Identifier for a Product object. prv_ Review ID Identifier for a Review object. pst_live_ Live Connection token Connection token in a live environment. pst_test_ Test Connection token Connection token in a test environment. py_ Payment ID Identifier for a Payment object. pyr_ Payment Refund ID Identifier for a psuedo Refund object of a payment. qt_ Quote ID Identifier for a Quote object. rcpt_ Receipt ID Identifier for a receipt. re_ Refund ID Identifier for a Refund object. req_ Request ID Identifier for a HTTP Request rk_live_ Live restricted key Restricted key for live environment eg. stripe-cli rk_test_ Test restricted key Restricted key for test environment eg. stripe-cli seti_ Setup Intent ID Identifier for a Setup Intent object. si_ Subscription Item ID Identifier for a Subscription Item object. sk_live_ Live secret key Secret key in a live environment. sk_test_ Test secret key Pecret key in a test environment. sku_ SKU ID Identifier for a SKU object. sli_ Subscription Line Item ID Identifier for a Subscription Line Item object. sqr_ Scheduled Query Run ID Identifier for a Scheduled Query Run object. src_ Source ID Identifier for a Source object. src_ Source ID Identifier for a Source object. sub_ Subscription ID Identifier for a Subscription object. tml_ Terminal Location ID Identifier for a Terminal Location object. tmr_ Terminal Reader ID Identifier for a Terminal Reader object. tok_ Token ID Identifier for a Token object. trr_ Transfer ID Identifier a Transfer object. tu_ Topup ID Identifier for a Topup object. txi_ Tax ID Identifier for a customer Tax object. txn_ Transaction ID Identifier for a Transaction object. txr_ Tax Rate ID Identifier for a Tax Rate object. we_ Webhook Endpoint ID Identifier for a webhook endpoint. whsec_ Webhook Secret Secret key for signing a web hook.

Stripe has so many keys and ids this is a very helpful list to decode what exactly an id is for.

Dang this is such a good message. I can’t exactly relate to being forced into the overworking situation that PirateSofware is talking about. I can relate to being conditioned to feeling a certain way and changing that is very difficult. I can also relate to not feeling like I am getting enough done in the day. Sometimes a bit of separation is good.

I’ve been using tailwind for a few months now and I can still say I’m loving it. I’ve been using it to create some rapid prototypes that may or may not ever become something, a document that is likely to go to print (a resume), and some quick dashboards.

A few months back in september of 2023 I made a case for tailwindcss. And have been using it on quite a few projects since.

I started working on fokais.com only a few weeks ago, It’s going to be a SAS to make blogging easier. I’ve started hosting some tools for this blog that I really like that I think I can turn into a service. It’s been fantastic to quickly pump out new pages with tailwind.

November 30, 2023

Get those print colors exact

I’m working on something that might go to print, so I want the page breaks to happen somewhat in my control as the content author. As I do my writing I break my content up in to many short sections using h2, sometimes an h3. These are generally short sections that go together, should stay together, and typically are not too lengthy to cause a large white space in print.

I found a way in css to only allow page breaks to happen on h2 and h3, and it turned out perfect, suck it WSIWIG editors

Fantastic resource for learning go. You work through small examples quickly, learning single concepts along the way.

Textual is so sick, Will just made a live markdown editor in the terminal!

Fastapi passes flask in GitHub stars!

Nice take by @t3dotgg. Some of the old patterns that go deep into webdev, MVC, separation of concerns, REST, are things we are told to believe on day one, thrown so many things, no mental bandwidth, or experience to form our own opinions we must take them as fact. Rarely do we take these facts and revisit them with our new understandings years later.

Today I learned the meaning of abhorrent

abhorrent ăb-hôr′ənt, -hŏr′- adjective Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent. Feeling repugnance or loathing.

I’m really excited about sqlmodel, an amazing project by fastapi. It’s worth exploring!

SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on draw-a-ui, created by SawyerHood.

Draw a mockup and generate html for it

heroicons is a really nice set of many of the basic icons that you will need for building nice ui’s. They have a really nice copy as svg or jsx button, so that you can just yank it and paste it on your page without any extra packages or installation.

Uptime kuma is a fantastic self hosted monitoring tool. One docker run command and you are up and running. Once you are in you have full control over checking status of urls, frequency, allowed timeouts, and a HUGE list of notification providers

docker run -d --restart=always -p 3001:3001 -v uptime-kuma:/app/data --name uptime-kuma louislam/uptime-kuma:1

I deployed it in my homelab today.

November 11, 2023