core-lightning/doc/lightning-listnodes.7.md

lightning-listnodes -- Command to get the list of nodes in the known network.
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SYNOPSIS
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**listnodes** \[id\]

DESCRIPTION
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The **listnodes** command returns nodes the node has learned about via gossip messages, or a single one if the node *id* was specified.

EXAMPLE JSON REQUEST
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```json
{
  "id": 82,
  "method": "listnodes",
  "params": {
    "id": "02e29856dab8ddd9044c18486e4cab79ec717b490447af2d4831e290e48d57638a"
  }
}
```

RETURN VALUE
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On success, an object containing **nodes** is returned.  It is an array of objects, where each object contains:
- **nodeid** (pubkey): the public key of the node
- **last_update** (u32, optional): A node_announcement has been received for this node (UNIX timestamp)

If **last_update** is present:
  - **alias** (string): The fun alias this node advertized (up to 32 characters)
  - **color** (hex): The favorite RGB color this node advertized (always 6 characters)
  - **features** (hex): BOLT #9 features bitmap this node advertized
  - **addresses** (array of objects): The addresses this node advertized:
    - **type** (string): Type of connection (one of "ipv4", "ipv6", "torv2", "torv3")
    - **address** (string): address in expected format for *type*
    - **port** (u16): port number
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On failure, one of the following error codes may be returned:
 
- -32602: Error in given parameters.

EXAMPLE JSON RESPONSE
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```json
{
   "nodes": [
      {
         "nodeid": "02e29856dab8ddd9044c14586e4cab79ec717b490447af2d4831e290e48d58638a",
         "alias": "some_alias",
         "color": "68f442",
         "last_timestamp": 1597213741,
         "features": "02a2a1",
         "addresses": [
            {
               "type": "ipv4",
               "address": "zzz.yy.xx.xx",
               "port": 9735
            }
         ]
      }
    ]
}
```


AUTHOR
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Vincenzo Palazzo <<vincenzo.palazzo@protonmail.com>> wrote the initial version of this man page, but many others did the hard work of actually implementing this rpc command.

SEE ALSO
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FIXME: 

RESOURCES
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Main web site: <https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning>
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