Your customers want to print locally. Let 'em.
the makexyz API

With a few lines of code, your customers can start printing their or your designs locally - at 3D printers in their neighborhood. Add the following to your site where desired:

#standard html code

#in python you can implement this easily using the awesome requests library
import requests
f = open(‘my_stl_file.stl’, ‘r’)
url = "http://www.makexyz.com/api/upload_design?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>"
r = requests.post(url, files = {‘file’: f})
print r.json()
=> {u’url’: u’http://www.makexyz.com/upload?<RESPONSE_PARAMS>’, u’success’: True}

The user’s file will be uploaded to makexyz, and the API will return a link to the page where the file has been uploaded. The user can then proceed to makexyz to checkout… and enjoy the wonders of printing locally.
makexyz tracks and stores the source of the clicks and orders in order to accurately credit the source of orders - for revshare purposes, etc.
All you need to get started is your private API key. makexyz will not accept files via the API without a valid API key.
Email nathan@makexyz.com to get your API key, or with any other questions.