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Lightweight Bitcoin JSON-RPC Python asynchronous client

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bitcoin-python-async-rpc

Lightweight Bitcoin async JSON-RPC Python client.

Serves as a tiny layer between an application and a Bitcoin daemon, its primary usage is querying the current state of Bitcoin blockchain, network stats, transactions...

If you want complete Bitcoin experience in Python, consult python-bitcoinlib .

Installation

$ pip install bitcoinrpc

Supported methods

Here is a list of supported methods, divided by their categories. Should you need method not implemented, wrap the call in BitcoinRPC.acall(<your_method>, ...) coroutine.

Blockchain

Method Supported?
getbestblockhash
getblock
getblockchaininfo
getblockhash
getblockheader
getblockstats
getdifficulty
getmempoolinfo
getnetworkhashps

Mining

Method Supported?
getmininginfo

Network

Method Supported?
getconnectioncount
getnetworkinfo

Raw transactions

Method Supported?
getrawtransaction

Usage

Minimal illustration (assuming Python 3.8, where you can run async code in console)

$ python -m asyncio
>>> import asyncio
>>>
>>> from bitcoinrpc import BitcoinRPC
>>> rpc = BitcoinRPC("127.0.0.1", 8332, "rpc_user", "rpc_passwd")
>>> await rpc.getconnectioncount()
10

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