Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

importaddress (0.17.99 RPC)

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importaddress "address" ( "label" rescan p2sh )

Adds an address or script (in hex) that can be watched as if it were in your wallet but cannot be used to spend. Requires a new wallet backup.

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 address exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.

Note: If you import a non-standard raw script in hex form, outputs sending to it will be treated as change, and not show up in many RPCs. If you have the full public key, you should call importpubkey instead of this.

Arguments

1. "address"

string

required

The Bitcoin address (or hex-encoded script)

2. "label"

string

optional

default=""

An optional label

3. rescan

boolean

optional

default=true

Rescan the wallet for transactions

4. p2sh

boolean

optional

default=false

Add the P2SH version of the script as well

Examples

Import an address with rescan

bitcoin-cli importaddress "myaddress"

Import using a label without rescan

bitcoin-cli importaddress "myaddress" "testing" false

As a JSON-RPC call

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importaddress", "params": ["myaddress", "testing", false] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/