c-lightning C plugin allows c-lightning to use esplora web explorer for fetching bitcoin data and send transactions.
Based on sauron plugin c-lightning plugin with esplora integration by darosior.
Install libcurl and libssl, on linux:
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev
- call
./apply.sh <lightning_src_dir> - run make in your lightning directory
Disable bcli plugin in order to fetch bitcoin data from esplora plugin, and set plugin options, as the following:
./lightningd/lightningd --testnet --disable-plugin bcli --log-level=debug
Full available options:
--esplora-api-endpoint=<url>: set esplora endpoint (as https://blockstream.info/testnet/api for testnet). If it is not specified, the plugin set the @Blockstream API by default in accord with the lightningd network conf.--esplora-verbose=1: enable curl verbosity--esplora-cainfo=<path>: set path to Certificate Authority (CA) bundle (CA certificates extracted from Mozilla at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html)--esplora-capath=<path>: specify directory holding CA certificates.--esplora-disable-proxy: ignore the proxy conf from the lightnind node and use esplora without proxy, if this option is missed esplora use the same proxy of lightnind (if there is one).