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Reckless

A plugin manager for C-lightning

Installation - requirements

As any other plugin, reckless can be installed by being put in lightningd's default plugin directory (~/.lightning/bitcoin/plugins by default) or at startup via command line:

lightningd --plugin /path/to/reckless.py

It also supports to be started dynamically:

lightning-cli plugin start /path/to/reckless.py

C-lightning v0.7.2 or superior is required.

Usage

You can search for a plugin from known plugin repos:

lightning-cli search_plugin rebalance

This will return a list of objects with 2 entries: 'human_url' which points to the plugin location in a human readable format, and install_url to be passed to lightning_install to install the actual plugin. For example the 'rebalance' keyword from above points to both @gallizoltan's rebalance plugin and @renepickhardt's rebalance-JIT-routing (WIP).

You can install a plugin by providing an url, or a keyword and setting the optional second parameter to true, for example:

$ lightning-cli install_plugin lightning-qt true

This will output a somewhat exhaustive log of what happened (in case installation goes wrong, or so that you know what this plugin does with your money-related software):

                                ===== Installation log ======

Created /home/darosior/projects/reckless/regtest/lndir1/regtest/plugins/lightning-qt directory
Downloaded file from https://api.github.com/repos/lightningd/plugins/contents/lightning-qt to /home/darosior/projects/reckless/regtest/lndir1/regtest/plugins/lightning-qt/lightning-qt
Made /home/darosior/projects/reckless/regtest/lndir1/regtest/plugins/lightning-qt/lightning-qt.py executable

Started lightning-qt.py

A note on managers

Package managers have led to severe flaws in the past, and especially in Bitcoin space. C-lightning plugins are direclty connected to lightningd and manage funds, please be sure of what you are installing. That's why the installation is in two stades (search then install). That's why there is a human_url entry in the search results. That's also why this plugin is named reckless :-)..

Licence

BSD 3-clause-clear