Plugins for c-lightning

Community curated plugins for c-lightning.

To install and activate a plugin you need to stop your lightningd and restart it with the plugin argument like this:

lightningd --plugin=/path/to/plugin/directory/plugin_file_name.py

where the plugin_file_name.py should be an executable (chmod a+x plugin_file_name.py) file and can be written in any programming language.

Available plugins

Name	Short description
autopilot	An autopilot that suggests channels that should be established
donations	A simple donations page to accept donations from the web
graphql	Exposes the c-lightning API over graphql
persistent-channels	Maintains a number of channels to peers
probe	Regularly probes the network for stability
prometheus	Lightning node exporter for the prometheus timeseries server
rebalance	Keeps your channels balanced
sendinvoiceless	Sends some money without an invoice from the receiving node.
sitzprobe	A Lightning Network payment rehearsal utility
summary	Print a nice summary of the node status

More Plugins from the Community

• https://github.com/conscott/c-lightning-plugins
• https://github.com/renepickhardt/c-lightning-plugin-collection

Plugin Builder Resources

• Description of the plugin API
• C Plugin API by @rustyrussell
• Python Plugin API & RPC Client (PyPI) by @cdecker and a video tutorial by @renepickhardt
• Go Plugin API & RPC Client by @niftynei