Running Electrum Console Commands Outside Electrum on Linux

Electrum is a popular Python library for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. If the Electrum console command is configured outside of Electrum, you can use it from within your Python application to retrieve wallet balances and other information.

Prerequisites:

• You need to install Electrum on your system.

• You need to create a configuration file (e.g. “config.json”) to store Electrum settings. This file should contain the following:

– password: Your Electrum password

– server_url: The URL for the Electrum console command (e.g. “

– rpc_version: The RPC version you want to use (default: 4)

• You need to configure the Electrum console command to run on your system.

• You need to install the subprocess module in Python, which allows you to create new processes and interact with their output.

Step by step:

Step 1: Create a configuration file

Create a file called config.json in the same directory as your Electrum console command script (for example getbalance.py). This file should contain the following:

{
"password": "YOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORD",
"server_url": "
"rpc_version": 4
}

ReplaceYOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORDwith your Electrum password.

Step 2: Install thesubprocessmodule

You need to install thesubprocessmodule in Python. Run the following command:

pip install subprocess

Create a new file named getbalance.shin the same directory as your Python application:

#!/bin/bash

Configure Electrum settings
password="YOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORD"
server_url="

Run Electrum wallet and get balance
getbalance=$(./run-electrum.sh "$password" "$server_url")
echo "Wallet balance: $getbalance"

Create a new file named run-electrum.shin the same directory:

#!/bin/bash

Configure Electrum settings
password="YOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORD"

Run Electrum wallet and get balance
getbalance=$(./getbalance.sh "$password")
echo "Wallet balance: $getbalance"

python getbalance.py

import subprocess
password="YOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORD"
server_url="

Run Electrum wallet and get balance
subprocess.run(["./run-electrum.sh", "$password", "$server_url"], check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
getbalance = subprocess.check_output("getbalance".split(), stdin=subprocess.PIPE).decode()
print("Wallet balance:", get balance)

python getbalance.py

A Calling the “getbalance()” function

To call the “getbalance()” function from outside Electrum, you can use the following Python code:

import subprocess
password="YOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORD"
server_url="

Get balance with the getbalance function
subprocess.run([./getbalance.sh", "$password", "$server_url"], check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
balance = subprocess.check_output("getbalance".split(), stdin=subprocess.PIPE).decode()
print(balance)

Replace “YOUR_ELECTRUM_PASSWORD” with your Electrum password.

Tips and Variations

• You can modify the `config.json’ file to use different settings for the Electrum console command.

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