Add cURL JSON-RPC demo

5 years ago · 4c911f57a5
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ To access JSON-RPC from other services you'll also need to expose port 8332. You
 docker --name bitcoind run -v $HOME/.bitcoin:/data/.bitcoin -p 8333:8333 -p 127.0.0.1:8332:8332 lukechilds/bitcoind
 ```

+You could now query JSON-RPC via cURL like so:
+
+```
+curl --data '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"curltext","method":"getnetworkinfo"}' http://$(cat $HOME/.bitcoin/.cookie)@127.0.0.1:8332
+```
+
 ### CLI Arguments

 All CLI arguments are passed directly through to bitcoind.