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April 3, 2022 15:28
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Convert Phantom Private Key Export to data for use in Solana CLI Keypair file.
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#!/usr/bin/python3 | |
#You need base58 (pip install base58) | |
#Please note: I'm not a programmer and there are probably more elegant ways to accomplish this, but this does work. | |
#Usage: Call the script with the filename to store the keypair file as the first argument. | |
# The private key exported from Phantom Wallet is the second argument. | |
# I didn't write all this code, 2 main lines including join(map(lambda line were copied from another site, | |
# credit to original authors. | |
import base58 | |
import sys | |
import os.path | |
key58 = sys.argv[2] | |
filename = sys.argv[1] | |
if (os.path.exists(filename)): | |
print("Filename already exists, please specify a different filename") | |
exit() | |
byte_array = base58.b58decode(key58) | |
json_string = "[" + ",".join(map(lambda b: str(b), byte_array)) + "]" | |
#print(json_string) | |
textfile = open(filename, 'w') | |
n = textfile.write(json_string) | |
textfile.close() |
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