monero-python VS monero-java

If anyone is using my monero Python module for output recognition, please upgrade immediately to version 1.0.2. It's available on PyPI and, of course, on Github.

More like monero-wallet-rpc and a little Python, using this library for example.

I have a bot that I’ve written in python and I would like to extend it to watch a monero node, which I am running locally, for transactions using a private view key and then perform an action if a transaction occurs. I’ve looked through both the documentation and the sources for monero-python and I just can’t seem to figure out how to get it to use an existing viewkey. I can connect to my node and interact with the blockchain. I see how I can generate a new wallet and get its view key, but I just don’t see how I go about loading a view key so that I can use it to verify transactions using the viewkey I already have. Does anybody know how I would go about doing this? I would even settle for information about how to do this just with the json_rpc from the daemon, if that’s the best information someone knows (yes, I’ve read the docs, I’m clearly just looking right past the answer). I have read how to use `monero-wallet-cl` with `--generate-from-view-key`, but I’m hoping there’s a way for my bot to do this directly. Thanks for the help.

If so, you'll want to use monero-python

If you know a transaction that was made with (or to) the wallet (like the withdrawal tx from an exchange), you can check the transaction pubkey against the seed you are checking to get an immediate result. You should be able to re-purpose monero-python for that.

No, not at this time Upvote: https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-python/issues/73

Or if you prefer Java: https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-java

If you prefer Java over JavaScript, monero-java provides the same functionality as monero-javascript (disclosure: I maintain both).