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< h1 > importpubkey - Bitcoin RPC< / h1 >
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< pre > importpubkey " pubkey" ( " label" rescan )
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Adds a public key (in hex) that can be watched as if it were in your wallet but cannot be used to spend. Requires a new wallet backup.
Arguments:
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1. " pubkey" (string, required) The hex-encoded public key
2. " label" (string, optional, default=" " ) An optional label
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3. rescan (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions
Note: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls
may report that the imported pubkey exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.
Examples:
Import a public key with rescan
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> bitcoin-cli importpubkey " mypubkey"
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Import using a label without rescan
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> bitcoin-cli importpubkey " mypubkey" " testing" false
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As a JSON-RPC call
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> curl --user myusername --data-binary ' {" jsonrpc" : " 1.0" , " id" :" curltest" , " method" : " importpubkey" , " params" : [" mypubkey" , " testing" , false] }' -H ' content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/
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This is a website, created out of frustration with uncomplete and outdated Bitcoin Core RPC documentation online.
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It was inspired by < a href = "http://chainquery.com/bitcoin-api" > ChainQuery< / a > , which seems to be abandoned. These docs are even simplier, so they can be regenerated by anyone.
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Made by < a href = "https://twitter.com/karel_3d" > @karel_3d< / a > ; license of the docs is MIT (see < a href = "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/" > bitcoin repo< / a > ), license of the scripts and webpage is also MIT ((C) 2018 Karel Bilek) (< a href = "https://github.com/bitcoin-rpc/bitcoin-rpc.github.io" > github repo< / a > )
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Bitcoin version: 0.16.0.
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Note that the RPC is from a regtest node (for completeness), so it includes some additional calls that a regular node doesn't have.
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