Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

signrawtransactionwithkey (0.17.99 RPC)

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signrawtransactionwithkey "hexstring" ["privatekey1",...] ( [{"txid":"id","vout":n,"scriptPubKey":"hex","redeemScript":"hex"},...] sighashtype )

Sign inputs for raw transaction (serialized, hex-encoded). The second argument is an array of base58-encoded private keys that will be the only keys used to sign the transaction. The third optional argument (may be null) is an array of previous transaction outputs that this transaction depends on but may not yet be in the block chain.

Arguments

1. "hexstring"

string

required

The transaction hex string

2. "privkeys"

string

required

A json array of base58-encoded private keys for signing

    [

json array of strings

      "privatekey"

string

private key in base58-encoding

      ,...
    ]
3. "prevtxs"

string

optional

An json array of previous dependent transaction outputs

     [

json array of json objects

or 'null' if none provided

       {
         "txid":"id",

string

required

The transaction id

         "vout":n,

numeric

required

The output number

         "scriptPubKey": "hex",

string

required

script key

         "redeemScript": "hex",

string

required for P2SH or P2WSH

redeem script

         "amount": value

numeric

required

The amount spent

       }
       ,...
    ]
4. "sighashtype"

string

optional

default=ALL

The signature hash type. Must be one of

  • “ALL”
  • “NONE”
  • “SINGLE”
  • “ALL|ANYONECANPAY”
  • “NONE|ANYONECANPAY”
  • “SINGLE|ANYONECANPAY”

Result

{
  "hex" : "value",

string

The hex-encoded raw transaction with signature(s)

  "complete" : true|false,

boolean

If the transaction has a complete set of signatures

  "errors" : [

json array of objects

Script verification errors (if there are any)

    {
      "txid" : "hash",

string

The hash of the referenced, previous transaction

      "vout" : n,

numeric

The index of the output to spent and used as input

      "scriptSig" : "hex",

string

The hex-encoded signature script

      "sequence" : n,

numeric

Script sequence number

      "error" : "text"

string

Verification or signing error related to the input

    }
    ,...
  ]
}

Examples

Examples:

bitcoin-cli signrawtransactionwithkey "myhex"
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signrawtransactionwithkey", "params": ["myhex"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/