pybitcoin

A simple Python wrapper for Bitcoin JSON-RPC API.

Installation

pip install bitcaviar

Usage

You should pass your bitcoin-cli directory and where you have the blockchain stored to each method.

from bitcaviar import config

bitcoin = config.Bitcoin(
    cli_dir='your/dir/to/bitcoin-cli', 
    data_dir='/where/is/the/blockchain'
)

Example 1

Get the number of blocks in the blockchain

from bitcaviar import config
from bitcaviar import blockchain


def main():
    bitcoin = config.Bitcoin(
        cli_dir='bitcoin-cli', 
        data_dir='/Users/dennis/Bitcoin'
    )
    
    block_count = blockchain.get_block_count(bitcoin=bitcoin)

    print(block_count)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()