LND REST API Example

This example is for trying the exchange of funds on the Lightning Network.

You can easily try multi-hop payments using Jupyter Notebook.

lnd is used as an implementation of the Lightning network.

The daemons run in regtest mode. They run as docker containers.

Requirement

You can set up the environment by following the steps below.

$ git clone https://github.com/kadokko/example-lnd-rest-api.git
$ cd example-lnd-rest-api
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
$ cd /vagrant_share
$ ./start.sh

You can try this example on the following page.

http://localhost:20000/notebooks/lnd-rest-api-example.ipynb