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importwallet

importwallet “filename”

Imports keys from a wallet dump file (see dumpwallet). Requires a new wallet backup to include imported keys. Note: Use “getwalletinfo” to query the scanning progress.

Arguments:

  1. filename (string, required) The wallet file

Result: null (json null)

Examples:

Dump the wallet

bitcoin-cli dumpwallet “test”

Import the wallet

bitcoin-cli importwallet “test”

Import using the json rpc call

curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”: “curltest”, “method”: “importwallet”, “params”: [“test”]}’ -H ‘content-type: text/plain;’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/