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importprivkey

Command#

pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "privkey" ( "label" ) ( rescan )

Adds a private key (as returned by dumpprivkey) to your wallet. Requires a new wallet backup. Hint: use importmulti to import more than one private key.

Arguments#

privkey *#

(string, required)

The private key (see dumpprivkey)

label#

(string, optional, default="")

An optional label

rescan#

(boolean, optional, default=true)

Rescan the wallet for transactions

Examples#

Note: This call can take over an hour to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls

may report that the imported key exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.

Dump a private key

pacprotocol-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"

Import the private key with rescan

pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey"

Import using a label and without rescan

pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey" "testing" false

Import using default blank label and without rescan

pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey" "" false

As a JSON-RPC call

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importprivkey", "params": ["mykey", "testing", false] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/

Running following help command

pacprotocol-cli help importprivkey

Will produce following output:

importprivkey "privkey" ( "label" ) ( rescan )
Adds a private key (as returned by dumpprivkey) to your wallet. Requires a new wallet backup.
Hint: use importmulti to import more than one private key.
Arguments:
1. "privkey" (string, required) The private key (see dumpprivkey)
2. "label" (string, optional, default="") An optional label
3. rescan (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions
Note: This call can take over an hour to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls
may report that the imported key exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.
Examples:
Dump a private key
> pacprotocol-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"
Import the private key with rescan
> pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey"
Import using a label and without rescan
> pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey" "testing" false
Import using default blank label and without rescan
> pacprotocol-cli importprivkey "mykey" "" false
As a JSON-RPC call
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importprivkey", "params": ["mykey", "testing", false] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/
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