bitcoinlib vs walletool

bitcoinlib

Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies Library for Python. Includes a fully functional wallet, Mnemonic key generation and management and connection with various service providers to receive and send blockchain and transaction information. (by 1200wd)

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walletool

a tool for reading wallet.dat files (by akx)

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bitcoinlib		walletool
	Project
1	Mentions	4
565	Stars	180
3.9%	Growth	-
8.2	Activity	2.9
9 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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bitcoinlib

Posts with mentions or reviews of bitcoinlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

bitcoinlib help
1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 20 Apr 2021

anyone have experience with this module? https://github.com/1200wd/bitcoinlib

walletool

Posts with mentions or reviews of walletool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-31.

WIF import problem with Electrum
1 project | /r/Electrum | 9 Dec 2021

Extracted keys from a wallet dat file using wallettool and there were ~100 old-style addresses (starting with 1) printed, each address followed by a privkey in what I assume is WIF because they all start with 5J/5H/5V etc.
Password recovery wallet.dat multi threaded script
4 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 31 Jan 2021

wallet.dat reader
Error restoring old wallet
1 project | /r/litecoin | 13 Jan 2021
Are there any wallets or other tools that can open a bitcoin core wallet.dat file?
2 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 24 Dec 2020

Use a tool like https://github.com/akx/walletool.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bitcoinlib and walletool you can also consider the following projects:

python-bitcoin-utils - Library to interact with the Bitcoin network. Ideal for low-level learning and experimenting.

btcrecover - BTCRecover is an open source wallet password and seed recovery tool. For seed based recovery, this is primarily useful in situations where you have lost/forgotten parts of your mnemonic, or have made an error transcribing it. (So you are either seeing an empty wallet or gettign an error that your seed is invalid) For wallet password or passphrase recovery, it is primarily useful if you have a reasonable idea about what your password might be.

bip_utils - Generation of mnemonics, seeds, private/public keys and addresses for different types of cryptocurrencies

john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs

dash - Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

BitGen - Bitcoin wallet generator and scrapper

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