3.2 drand-client CLI
The drand-client
command-line interface application can be used to fetch randomness from a drand network. It is a CLI frontend for the drand client libraries.
Installation
From Source
This will require a working Golang installation. You'll also need the make
command available.
git clone https://github.com/drand/drand
cd drand
make drand-client
From Docker
docker run drandorg/drand-client
Usage
Run drand-client --help
for a list of supported options.
As an example, here is how to launch the client in order to read randomness for the current League of Entropy mainnet endpoints with automatic verification, failover and fastest-endpoint optimizations:
drand-client --watch \
--chain-hash 8990e7a9aaed2ffed73dbd7092123d6f289930540d7651336225dc172e51b2ce \
--url http://api.drand.sh \
--url http://api2.drand.sh \
--url http://api3.drand.sh \
--url https://drand.cloudflare.com \
--relay /dnsaddr/api.drand.sh \
--relay /dnsaddr/api2.drand.sh \
--relay /dnsaddr/api3.drand.sh