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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: yegor256 on April 05, 2019, 07:24:40 AM



Title: Is there any command line Bitcoin client (nodeless)?
Post by: yegor256 on April 05, 2019, 07:24:40 AM
I'm looking for a Bitcoin command line client, which will do two things: 1) retrieve the balance of an address, and 2) send a payment from a number of UTXOs. I'm trying to find one, but no luck so far.


Title: Re: Is there any command line Bitcoin client (nodeless)?
Post by: darosior on April 05, 2019, 08:01:36 AM
I'm looking for a Bitcoin command line client, which will do two things: 1) retrieve the balance of an address, and 2) send a payment from a number of UTXOs. I'm trying to find one, but no luck so far.
bitcoin-core CLI, bitcoinJS in a nodejs interpreter, Armory, etc..


Title: Re: Is there any command line Bitcoin client (nodeless)?
Post by: klaaas on April 05, 2019, 08:27:54 AM
You could use your browser for it, check out this website https://segwitaddress.org
Over at this (https://www.youtube.com/user/m1xolyd1an/videos) youtube channel you can find some tutorials how to use it cmd style in your browser.


Title: Re: Is there any command line Bitcoin client (nodeless)?
Post by: HCP on April 06, 2019, 06:13:53 AM
If you're running Linux... Electrum also has a CLI mode that allows basic functionality... note that the CLI doesn't work in Windows.

You could also try and leverage some of the API's available like Blockcypher: https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/bitcoin/

They have examples for the API calls using cURL, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Go & PHP