bithook

bithook

Bithook is a Bitcoin Webhook CLI Utility. You can use this program to listen for new blocks and transactions for addresses. When a transaction is received, Bithook will fire off a web POST request any URL you specify along with the transaction JSON data.

Bithook uses the Blockchain.info websocket API to listen for transactions.

Features

• Subscribe to new blocks
• Subscribe to transactions for a specified address
• Subscribe to unconfirmed addresses
• Sends JSON data as a POST request to any URL

Install From Source

go get github.com/alfg/bithook
./bin/bithook help

Install from Homebrew

brew cask alfg/tap
brew install alfg/tap/bithook
bithook help

Usage

bithook <command> http://webhook/path

Commands:
bithook blocks -- Subscribe to new blocks.
bithook unconfirmed -- Subscribe to new unconfirmed transactions.
bithook address <address> -- Subscribe to address.
bithook test -- Receives latest transaction. Use for testing.
bithook help -- This help menu.
bithook version -- This version.

Optional:
<webhook path> -- This is optional. The results will just echo to output if not set.

Example

The following example will listen for transactions of 1dice8EMZmqKvrGE4Qc9bUFf9PX3xaYDp and POST the json results to http://requestb.in/nt5bcnnt. You can view the results at http://requestb.in/nt5bcnnt?inspect.

bithook address 1dice8EMZmqKvrGE4Qc9bUFf9PX3xaYDp http://requestb.in/nt5bcnnt

Develop

git clone git@github.com:alfg/bithook.git
export GOPATH=$HOME/path/to/project
cd /to/project
go run main.go

License

MIT