python-monerorpc

python-monerorpc is an improved version of python-jsonrpc for Monero (monerod rpc, monero-wallet-rpc).

python-monerorpc was originally forked from python-bitcoinrpc.

It includes the following generic improvements:

It also includes some more specific details:

What does it do?

python-monerorpc communicates with monero over RPC.

That includes:

python-monerorpc takes over the actual HTTP request containing all the necessary headers.

Compared to similar projects:

Installation:

From PyPI

To install python-monerorpc from PyPI using pip you just need to:

$ pip install python-monerorpc

From Source

$ python setup.py install –user

Note: This will only install monerorpc. If you also want to install jsonrpc to preserve backwards compatibility, you have to replace monerorpc with jsonrpc in setup.py and run it again.

Examples:

Example usage monerod (get info):

    from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException

    # initialisation, rpc_user and rpc_password are set as flags in the cli command
    rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

    info = rpc_connection.get_info()
    print(info)

    # rpc_user and rpc_password can also be left out (testing, develop, not recommended)
    rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc')

Example usage monerod (get network type):

  from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException
  rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

  result = None
  network_type = None
  try:
      result = rpc_connection.get_info()
  except (requests.HTTPError,
          requests.ConnectionError,
          JSONRPCException) as e:
      logger.error('RPC Error on getting address' + str(e))
      logger.exception(e)
  # Check network type
  network_type = result.get('nettype')
  if not network_type:
      raise ValueError('Error with: {0}'.format(result))
  print(network_type)

Example usage monerod (on get block hash):

  from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException
  rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

  params = [2]
  hash = rpc.on_get_block_hash(params)
  print(hash)

Example usage monero-wallet-rpc (get balance):

    from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException

    # initialisation, rpc_user and rpc_password are set as flags in the cli command
    rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18083/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

    balance = rpc_connection.get_balance()
    print(balance)

Example usage monero-wallet-rpc (make transfer):

    from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException

    # initialisation, rpc_user and rpc_password are set as flags in the cli command
    rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18083/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

    destinations = {"destinations": [{"address": "some_address", "amount": 1}], "mixin": 10}
    result = rpc_connection.transfer(destinations)
    print(result)

Example usage monero-wallet-rpc (batch):

    from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException
    import pprint

    # initialisation, rpc_user and rpc_password are set as flags in the cli command
    rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18083/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

    # some example batch
    params={"account_index":0,"address_indices":[0,1]}
    result = rpc.batch_([ ["get_balance"], ["get_balance", params] ])
    pprint.pprint(result)

    # make transfer and get balance in a batch
    destinations = {"destinations": [{"address": "some_address", "amount": 1}], "mixin": 10}
    result = rpc.batch_([ ["transfer", destinations], ["get_balance"] ])
    pprint.pprint(result)

Logging:

Logging all RPC calls to stderr:

    from monerorpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, JSONRPCException
    import logging

    logging.basicConfig()
    logging.getLogger("MoneroRPC").setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

    rpc_connection = AuthServiceProxy('http://{0}:{1}@127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc'.format(rpc_user, rpc_password))

    print(rpc_connection.get_info())

Produces output on stderr like:

    DEBUG:MoneroRPC:-1-> get_info []
    DEBUG:MoneroRPC:<-1- {u'result': {u'incoming_connections_count': 0, ...etc }

Errors:

Possible errors and error codes:

Testing:

Install the test requirements:

    virtualenv -q venv
    . venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt

Run unit tests using pytest:

    # virtualenv activated (see above)
    pytest tests.py

Run unit tests on all supported python versions:

    tox -q

Run unit tests on a subset of the supported python versions:

    tox -q -e py27,py34

Note: The chosen python versions have to be installed on your system.

Authors

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

For more info, please check the original repository page