Feature req: Pay BOLT11 invoices via BTCPay Server API

Hi all,

With LN being so hot right now, one feature that would be super useful to me as a merchant is the ability to pay BOLT11 invoices via the BTCPay Server API.

Not the whole lncli/lightning-cli API is needed. Just the ability to: 1) Initiate payment of an lnbc invoice and 2) Check the status of that payment.

How I imagine it would work: When initiating a withdrawal, the initiate endpoint would need to create and return a withdrawal ID. The check status endpoint, when provided the withdrawal ID, would then return a success, failure, or processing status of the withdrawal.

For reference see the OpenNode docs under Withdrawals Endpoints => Initiate a withdrawal & Withdrawal info

But why don’t you just SSH in and run the commands yourself?

I’d like to be able to this programmatically and save myself from making a separate webserver + authentication on the same VM as my BTCPay Server instance.

[Kukks]

There is still no API for most operations in any case. You need to wait till we plan it all

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 16:48 Ross Dyson [e-mail] wrote:

@NicolasDorier https://github.com/NicolasDorier for my user case I need to programmatically make payouts to users

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[NicolasDorier]

Why not using the embedded Ride the Lightning or Spark wallet?