litecoin

node-litecoin

node-litecoin is a simple wrapper for the Litecoin client's JSON-RPC API.

The API is equivalent to the API document here. The methods are exposed as lower camelcase methods on the litecoin.Client object.

Install

npm install litecoin

Setup

1. Traverse to ~/.litecoin or ~/Library/Application Support/Litecoin and add a file called litecoin.conf if it doesn't already exist.

2. Add these lines to the file:

   rpcuser=username

   rpcpassword=password

You will use these to login to the server.

1. Start your Litecoin client with the -server argument or run litecoind

2. You should now be able to communicate with Litecoin JSON-RPC API using the node-litecoin library, try it out!

Examples

Create client

var litecoin = require('litecoin');
var client = new litecoin.Client({
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 9332,
  user: 'username',
  pass: '$3cr37P@s5w0rd',
  timeout: 30000,
  ssl: false/* true,
  sslStrict: true,
  sslCa: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/myca.cert')*/
});

Get balance across all accounts with minimum confirmations of 6

client.getBalance('*', 6, function(err, balance) {
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log('Balance: ' + balance);
});

Get the network hash rate

client.getNetworkHashPs(function(err, hashps) {
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log('Network Hash Rate: ' + hashps);
});