bitcoin-blockchain-parser

This Python 3 library provides a parser for the raw data stored by bitcoind.

Features

• Detects outputs types
• Detects addresses in outputs
• Interprets scripts

Examples

import sys
from blockchain_parser.blockchain import Blockchain

# Instanciate the Blockchain by giving the path to the directory 
# containing the .blk files created by bitcoind
blockchain = Blockchain(sys.argv[1])
for block in blockchain.get_unordered_blocks():
    for tx in block.transactions:
        for no, output in enumerate(tx.outputs):
            print("tx=%s outputno=%d type=%s value=%s" % (tx.hash, no, output.type, output.value))

More examples are available in the examples directory.

Installing

Requirements : python-bitcoinlib, coverage for tests

To install, just run

python setup.py install

Tests

Run the test suite by lauching

./tests.sh