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I'm trying to call the MyMonero API to get some info about a wallet. By doing a call with curl, it seems to work fine.

Request:

curl -w "\n" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST https://api.mymonero.com:8443/get_address_info -d '{"address": "4212xxB5reLXdvoNQQFi7DCBVEyqmK1ZH7Dw584eQTmRbwe6d7NbwoAV4EkoPhFvUoZCjjerotB6bRHAHVRsCbqu1V6s6ZN","view_key": "197dbd7e30fec43d8d57e7fe485dab2c45b73644a4572bf80a9d88b715037605"}'

Response:

{"locked_funds":"0","total_received":"0","total_sent":"0","scanned_height":5787871,"scanned_block_height":1754582,"start_height":5304924,"transaction_height":5787871,"blockchain_height":1754582,"spent_outputs":null,"rates":{"AUD":63.31,"BRL":173.09,"BTC":0.01269,"CAD":63.43,"CHF":52.92,"CNY":308.03,"EUR":39.71,"GBP":35.15,"HKD":352.61,"INR":4791.628,"JPY":4936.01,"KRW":51050,"MXN":862.83,"NOK":430.55328,"NZD":64.33,"SEK":440.08,"SGD":61.68,"TRY":251.55,"USD":45.65,"RUB":3148.49,"ZAR":665.92}}

Now I want to do the same with randomly generated wallet from the XMR Address Generator tool at https://xmr.llcoins.net/. So for example, I will fill up my curl request with random data from llcoins like follows.

Request:

curl -w "\n" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST https://api.mymonero.com:8443/get_address_info -d '{"address": "46wNqWTmh6TLbaM4UYCbTY4v5hMQDpnUThJj3r4gtNZGRqjxhBXXEmfDAwwF1xccBDiusrMYXxghXdgeuWS8GcPgNNVuLmK","view_key": "82c31f3041ab4248c4c6ebe3432ea4fa92d0483a72ac02db514156e66753b7bd"}'

Response:

{"Error":"Internal server error"}

Can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong? I'm not even sure if the API expects the private or public view key, neither of them works for me.

Thank you

jtgrassie
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To get the kind of information that API method returns would require scanning the whole blockchain, hence why it is not returning data for an arbitrary address.

If you want to scan the blockchain using an arbitrary address and keys, you will need to use the Monero tools to first restore a wallet from keys and then, assuming you want to do this as an RPC call, open the wallet using monero-wallet-rpc and calling it's methods, such as get_transfers.

jtgrassie
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My guess would be that, you need an public address and private view-key created at https://wallet.mymonero.com/ or in their app.

On a personal note. I wouldn't trust my XMR to a website. I'd rather use one of the official GUI/CLI wallets from https://ww.getmonero.org/downloads/

Mogens TrasherDK
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