esplora_clnd_plugin

c-lightning C plugin allows c-lightning to use esplora web explorer for fetching bitcoin data and send transactions.

Based on sauron plugin c-lightning plugin with esplora integration by darosior.

Deps

Install libcurl and libssl, on linux:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev

Build

1. call ./apply.sh <lightning_src_dir>
2. run make in your lightning directory

Run

Disable bcli plugin in order to fetch bitcoin data from esplora plugin, and set plugin options, as the following:

./lightningd/lightningd --testnet --disable-plugin bcli --log-level=debug

Full available options:

• --esplora-api-endpoint=<url>: set esplora endpoint (as https://blockstream.info/testnet/api for testnet). If it is not specified, the plugin set the @Blockstream API by default in accord with the lightningd network conf.
• --esplora-verbose=1: enable curl verbosity
• --esplora-cainfo=<path>: set path to Certificate Authority (CA) bundle (CA certificates extracted from Mozilla at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html)
• --esplora-capath=<path>: specify directory holding CA certificates.
• --esplora-disable-proxy: ignore the proxy conf from the lightnind node and use esplora without proxy, if this option is missed esplora use the same proxy of lightnind (if there is one).