bolt11 2.1.1

A library for encoding and decoding BOLT11 payment requests.

Lightning BOLT11 utils

This is an implementation of the Lightning BOLT11 specification, based on previous work by Rusty Russell, the Electrum Wallet team, and the LNbits bolt11 helpers created by @fiatjaf.

resources

• Bolt11 Spec
• bolt11.org
• lightningdecoder

installing

$ git clone https://github.com/lnbits/bolt11
$ cd bolt11
$ poetry install

running CLI

$ poetry run bolt11 --help
$ poetry run bolt11 decode

run all checks and tests

$ make

using pre-commit as git hook

$ poetry run pre-commit install

running CLI

$ poetry run bolt11 --help

running CLI decode

$ poetry run bolt11 decode lnbc20m1pvjluez.....
{
  "currency": "bc",
  "amount": 2000000000,
  "timestamp": 1496314658,
  "signature": "6a6586db4e8f6d40e3a5bb92e4df5110c627e9ce493af237e20a046b4e86ea200178c59564ecf892f33a9558bf041b6ad2cb8292d7a6c351fbb7f2ae2d16b54e",
  "description_hash": "3925b6f67e2c340036ed12093dd44e0368df1b6ea26c53dbe4811f58fd5db8c1",
  "features": {
    "var_onion_optin": "required",
    "payment_secret": "required"
  },
  "fallback": "1RustyRX2oai4EYYDpQGWvEL62BBGqN9T",
  "route_hints": [
    {
      "public_key": "029e03a901b85534ff1e92c43c74431f7ce72046060fcf7a95c37e148f78c77255",
      "short_channel_id": "66051x263430x1800",
      "base_fee": 1,
      "ppm_fee": 20,
      "cltv_expiry_delta": 3
    },
    {
      "public_key": "039e03a901b85534ff1e92c43c74431f7ce72046060fcf7a95c37e148f78c77255",
      "short_channel_id": "197637x395016x2314",
      "base_fee": 2,
      "ppm_fee": 30,
      "cltv_expiry_delta": 4
    }
  ],
  "min_final_cltv_expiry": 9,
  "payment_hash": "0001020304050607080900010203040506070809000102030405060708090102",
  "payment_secret": "1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
  "payee": "03e7156ae33b0a208d0744199163177e909e80176e55d97a2f221ede0f934dd9ad"
}

running CLI encode

$ poetry run bolt11 encode '{
  "currency": "bc",
  "amount_msat": 1000,
  "date": 1590000000,
  "payment_hash": "0001020304050607080900010203040506070809000102030405060708090102",
  "payment_secret": "1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111",
  "description": "description"
}' e126f68f7eafcc8b74f54d269fe206be715000f94dac067d1c04a8ca3b2db734