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Introduction

The following guide aims to provide examples to help you start building Pandora-based applications. To make the best use of this document, you may want to install the current version of Pandora Core, either from source or from a pre-compiled executable.

Once installed, you’ll have access to three programs: pandorad, pandora-qt, and pandora-cli.

  • pandora-qt provides a combination full Pandora peer and wallet frontend. From the Help menu, you can access a console where you can enter the RPC commands used throughout this document.

  • pandorad is more useful for programming: it provides a full peer which you can interact with through RPCs to port 9337 (or 18332 for testnet).

  • pandora-cli allows you to send RPC commands to pandorad from the command line. For example, pandora-cli help

All three programs get settings from pandora.conf in the Pandora application directory:

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Pandora\

  • OSX: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Pandora/

  • Linux: $HOME/.pandora/

To use pandorad and pandora-cli, you will need to add a RPC password to your pandora.conf file. Both programs will read from the same file if both run on the same system as the same user, so any long random password will work:

rpcpassword=change_this_to_a_long_random_password

You should also make the pandora.conf file only readable to its owner. On Linux, Mac OSX, and other Unix-like systems, this can be accomplished by running the following command in the Pandora application directory:

chmod 0600 pandora.conf

For development, it’s safer and cheaper to use Pandora’s test network (testnet) or regression test mode (regtest) described below.

Questions about Pandora use are best sent to the pandoraTalk forum and IRC channels. Errors or suggestions related to documentation on Pandora.org can be submitted as an issue or posted to the pandora-documentation mailing list.

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