Lightning RPC Explorer

Simple, database-free Lightning network explorer, via gRPC. Built with Node.js, express, bootstrap-v4.

This tool is intended to be a simple, self-hosted explorer for the Lightning network, driven by RPC calls to your own lightning node.

A live demo of the tool is available at https://lightning.chaintools.io

Features

• Network summary
• Browse nodes and channels, sorted by last update or capacity
• View node and channel details
• Search by node or channel

Getting started

Prerequisites

1. Install and run a full, archiving node - instructions. Ensure that your node has full transaction indexing enabled (txindex=1) and the RPC server enabled (server=1).
2. Synchronize your node with the Bitcoin network.
3. Install LND

Instructions

1. Clone this repo
2. npm install
3. npm run build
4. Optional: Create file app/credentials.js with values to overwrite those in app/defaultCredentials.js.
5. npm start
6. Open http://127.0.0.1:3004/

Donate

To support continued development of this tool and/or to support the hosting of the live demo site:

• Bitcoin: 3NPGpNyLLmVKCEcuipBs7G4KpQJoJXjDGe
• Litecoin: ME4pXiXuWfEi1ANBDo9irUJVcZBhsTx14i