How to write a Python gRPC client for the Lightning Network Daemon

Create a virtual environment for your project

$ virtualenv lnd

Activate the virtual environment

$ source lnd/bin/activate

Install dependencies (googleapis-common-protos is required due to the use of google/api/annotations.proto)

(lnd)$ pip install grpcio grpcio-tools googleapis-common-protos

Clone the google api's repository (required due to the use of google/api/annotations.proto)

(lnd)$ git clone https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis.git

Copy the lnd rpc.proto file (you'll find this in lnrpc/rpc.proto) or just download it

(lnd)$ curl -o rpc.proto -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/master/lnrpc/rpc.proto

Compile the proto file

(lnd)$ python -m grpc_tools.protoc --proto_path=googleapis:. --python_out=. --grpc_python_out=. rpc.proto

After following these steps, two files rpc_pb2.py and rpc_pb2_grpc.py will be generated. These files will be imported in your project while writing your clients. Here's an example of a simple client that was built using these.

import grpc

import rpc_pb2 as ln
import rpc_pb2_grpc as lnrpc

channel = grpc.insecure_channel('localhost:10009')
stub = lnrpc.LightningStub(channel)

response = stub.WalletBalance(ln.WalletBalanceRequest(witness_only=True))
print response.balance

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How to write a Python gRPC client for the Lightning Network Daemon