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Title: Bitcoin Automation Post by: BitcoinDealer on June 21, 2011, 06:53:11 PM Hi,
What's the best way to catch transaction information for automated handling of purchases on a website. For example, the instawallet site, is it open source? Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: BitcoinDealer on June 21, 2011, 07:06:07 PM Bitcoin seems to lack this feature yet
Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: MBH on June 21, 2011, 07:19:58 PM You could use blockexplorer.com to track the transactions. The client shows how many confirmations the transactions have received; you could make use of that.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: kjj on June 21, 2011, 08:39:02 PM The listtransactions command will do it, or listreceivedbyaddress. Most sites use JSON RPC to communicate with a bitcoind daemon, either running on the webserver or elsewhere.
You can play with it a bit on the command line to see how it all works. Normally, you use getnewaddress to create a new address, then setaccount to associate the address with an account (just a name), then "listtransactions" to see if it has arrived yet. Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: bbjansen on June 21, 2011, 08:41:07 PM I will look into this soon too and would love to see or else develop a WHMCS plugin that will support payments and invoices via Bitcoins. It will probably be a bit more tricky than a standard PayPal transaction/invoice but should be possible.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: BitcoinDealer on June 21, 2011, 09:18:56 PM Yeah I guess it requires some modified Bitcoin client.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: kjj on June 21, 2011, 11:18:09 PM No, it works just fine with the stock client. You may need to create or edit a bitcoin.conf file to tell the software to listen for API requests.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: BitcoinDealer on June 21, 2011, 11:29:45 PM Whats the stock client?
Title: Re: Bitcoin Automation Post by: kjj on June 21, 2011, 11:31:52 PM The stock client is the one you can download from here (http://www.bitcoin.org/).
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