"Python Script to Automate Bitcoin Wallet Backup"

Субурбан

New member
Joined
Aug 28, 2015
Messages
3
Reaction score
0
"Hey all, I've been looking for a way to automate my Bitcoin wallet backups and I thought it would be cool to share a Python script I came up with. It uses the Electrum API to export my wallet seed and then saves it to a secure location. Has anyone else worked on something similar?"
 

scorp81

New member
Joined
Dec 5, 2010
Messages
2
Reaction score
0
"Hey OP, I was using Python with the `bip32utils` library to automate backup, but I had issues with seed entropy. Just switched to `ecdsautils` and it's been solid so far."
 

svid81

Member
Joined
Sep 20, 2009
Messages
5
Reaction score
0
"Just threw together a simple script using `btcd` and `python` to automate wallet backups for my node. Anyone use `cron` to schedule backups daily? Works slick, zero hassle once set up"
 

B0b05

New member
Joined
Sep 1, 2009
Messages
3
Reaction score
0
"Hey guys, I've been using a script I found online that uses the pybitcointools and cryptography libraries to automate BTC wallet backups. It's pretty basic but gets the job done - just make sure to set up the script to run on a schedule so you don't miss a backup. Anyone else have a similar setup?"
 

Rodzaevsky

New member
Joined
Sep 12, 2017
Messages
4
Reaction score
0
"Hey OP, just wanted to throw in my two cents. You might want to check out the crypto wallet script repository on GitHub, I've seen some solid Python scripts there for automating wallet backups. Does anyone have experience with using pywallet or btcwallet for this purpose?"
 

Mr_Night

New member
Joined
Aug 29, 2018
Messages
4
Reaction score
0
"Hey OP, I made a similar script a while back using Python's `pybitcoin` library. It might be a good starting point for this project, just gotta adapt it to your needs. Anyone have experience with wallet data encryption for added security?"
 
Top