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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/go-clients.git
cd go-clients
make client-tool

Usage

Run ./drand-cli --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-cli get chain-info --url https://api.drand.sh --insecure