Is there API to create Ether wallet?

Question

I know how to create wallet manually, however I would not like to take my clients out of website (I doubt anyone would) and would rather do their wallet creation behind the scenes when they register on website.

At first I was thinking of building wallet creation myself, but then it hit me that everyone who is trying to build a system for non technical users will try to do the same - generate wallet behind the scenes... and that someone very likely has built an API to do this already...

Is there an API to create Ether wallet?

Answer 1

BlockCypher is your answer, and it's been used by top organizations in the crypto space including exchanges. Both Private and Public keys of ETH or BTC are generated instantly and deleted from their server but you get to store in a db, assign to user or do whatever you want with it.

Get Token at https://accounts.blockcypher.com/

FREE plan comes with:

2000 Requests Per Day

200 Requests Per Hour

3 Requests Per Second

To generate ETH address and key (ETH Address are in Hex-encoded, Make sure to add 0x in front):

curl -sX POST https://api.blockcypher.com/v1/eth/main/addrs?token=YOURTOKEN

To generate BTC address and key:

curl -sX POST https://api.blockcypher.com/v1/btc/main/addrs?token=YOURTOKEN

See Documentation https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/ethereum/#block-height-endpoint

NOTE: Always generate over HTTPS, otherwise your private keys can be MITM'd.

Although it might not be advisable to use this for long term projects, so i also suggest Pre-generated address technique which can be adopted to create cold-wallet on fly.

Answer 2

You could use JSON RPC to create a wallet and set password. But PHP and geth don't go well together, it will limit your app. I recommend going directly with web3.js, and by the way, myetherwallet is a very nice code and open-source so you could integrate as on site wallet.

For generating wallet thought JSON-RPC (pass sent over the network):

//create eth wallet supplying pass, return wallet address if created

function getethwallet($pass) {

    $url = "http://node.ip:8545";   
    $data = array(
                 "jsonrpc" => "2.0",
                 "method" => "personal_newAccount",
                 "params" => array($pass),
                 "id" => "1"
                 );

    $json_encoded_data = json_encode($data);


$ch = curl_init($url);                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");                                                                     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_encoded_data);                                                                  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
    'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json_encoded_data))                                                                       
);                                                                                                                   

$result = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);

        $parsed = $result->result;

return $parsed;
}   

Answer 3

No, there are no such services because of obvious reasons.

If you trust a 3rd party with your wallet creation they can store the keys which is a serious problem.

If you think you are non technical and can do the API call you can do more with myetherwallet.com offline build. It will help you run the entire myetherwallet.com in your local machine, even without internet.

Steps: Make sure you have nodejs and git installed.

1. git clone https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/MyEtherWallet.git mew --depth=1
2. cd mew
3. npm i
4. npm run build

This will create a folder named build in mew/build which will help you do this.

PS: Please do not trust any 3rd party with you wallet keys, if you store considerable amount of coins.

Answer 4

Quick and Easy with this command:

curl -sX POST https://api.blockcypher.com/v1/eth/main/addrs