bitcoin-cli-ts

Auto-generated Bitcoin client library for Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC API

Installation

Install the package with:

npm i bitcoin-cli-ts
# or
yarn add bitcoin-cli-ts

Usage

Choose the version that corresponds to your Bitcoin Core version.

We use the major and minor versions from Bitcoin Core Releases and reserve the patch version for library fixes related to static code or dependencies.

Config

import { authenticatedBitcoind } from 'bitcoin-cli-ts'

const { host, username, password, port } = getBitcoinCoreRPCConfig()
const bitcoind = authenticatedBitcoind({
  protocol: 'http',
  host: host,
  username,
  password,
  timeout: 30000,
  port: parseInt(port, 10),
  walletName: wallet, // optional
})

Use rpc command

import { getBalance } from 'bitcoin-cli-ts'

const balance = await getBalance({ bitcoind })

Test

Test with Jest framework:

yarn test

Build

Build production (distribution) files in dist folder:

yarn build

It generates CommonJS (in dist/cjs folder), ES Modules (in dist/esm folder), as well as TypeScript declaration files (in dist/types folder).

Local development

Run:

yarn link
# or
npm link

and in your test project run:

yarn link bitcoin-cli-ts
# or
npm link bitcoin-cli-ts

If you want to remove the symlink, run:

# in your test project
yarn unlink bitcoin-cli-ts
# or
npm unlink bitcoin-cli-ts

# in bitcoin-cli-ts folder
yarn unlink
# or
npm unlink

Please check more details in npm link or yarn link

References

This library was developed based on:

• developer.bitcoin.org helpers
• Example TypeScript Package