CKB-CLI

ckb-cli is a CKB command-line tool developed in Rust.

If you need to interact with Mainnet blockchain from the command line, ckb-cli is an ideal choice to manage accounts, deploy Scripts and send Transactions.

Features

    rpc         Invoke RPC call to node
    account     Manage accounts
    mock-tx     Handle mock transactions (verify/send)
    tx          Handle common sighash/multisig transaction
    util        Utilities
    molecule    Molecule encode/decode utilities
    wallet      Transfer / query balance (with local index) / key utils
    dao         Deposit / prepare / withdraw / query NervosDAO balance (with local index) / key utils

All second-level sub-commands are listed on the wiki page.

Install

git clone https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb-cli.git
cd ckb-cli
cargo install --path . -f --locked

Usage

Better export an env first (or give in argument)

export API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8114

Directly go to gorgeous interactive mode:

ckb-cli

Show available commands

# Top level help doc
ckb-cli --help
# RPC help doc
ckb-cli rpc --help

Example: Get Live Cell (JSON Output Format)

ckb-cli rpc get_live_cell --tx-hash 0x4ec75b5a8de8d180853d5046760a99285c73283a5dc528f81d6ee056f5335172 --index 0

Response:

{
  "cell": {
    "capacity": "125000000000",
    "lock": {
      "args": ["0x64257f00b6b63e987609fa9be2d0c86d351020fb"],
      "code_hash": "0x1892ea40d82b53c678ff88312450bbb17e164d7a3e0a90941aa58839f56f8df2",
      "hash_type": "type"
    },
    "type": null
  },
  "status": "live"
}