importprivkey

importprivkey "privkey" ( "label" ) ( rescan )

Adds a private key (as returned by dumpprivkey) to your wallet. Requires a new wallet backup.

Note: This call can take minutes to complete if rescan is true.

# Dump a private key
yerbas-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"

# Import the private key with rescan
yerbas-cli importprivkey "mykey"

# Import using a label and without rescan
yerbas-cli importprivkey "mykey" "testing" false

# Import using default blank label and without rescan
yerbas-cli importprivkey "mykey" "" false

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
"privkey"	(string)	TThe private key (see dumpprivkey)
"label"	(string)	An optional label
rescan	(boolean)	Rescan the wallet for transactions

Arguments:
1. "privkey"          (string, required) The private key (see dumpprivkey)
2. "label"            (string, optional, default="") An optional label
3. rescan               (boolean, optional, default=true) Rescan the wallet for transactions

Output

Result	Type	Description
...	...	...

Result:
{
  ...
}

Examples

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "importprivkey", "params": ["mykey", "testing", false] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:9998/