faucet

This is a very simple faucet Express app. It supports the following REST call:

POST /donate/<ethereum address>

Installation

Cogito Faucet is a NodeJS program. It can be installed by running

npm install -g @cogitojs/faucet

or alternatively

yarn global install @cogitojs/faucet

Parameters

The cogito-faucet command takes the following arguments:

• <account>, this first argument is the account number from which Ether will be donated. Needs to include the 0x prefix.
• -d or --donation followed by an amount of Ether. This is the amount of Ether that is donated per request. Defaults to 0.1.
• -p or --provider followed by the provider URL. This specifies the full URL of the node in your blockchain network (including http or https and port number if needed). Defaults to http://localhost:8545.
• --port followed by a port number. The port that the faucet listens on. Defaults to 3001

The private key that corresponds with the account is specified as an environment variable:

COGITO_FAUCET_PRIVATE_KEY=C87509A1C067BBDE78BEB793E6FA76530B6382A4C0241E5E4A9EC0A0F44DC0D3

Example

This runs a faucet that hands out Ether in amount of 0.01 from the account 0x627306090abab3a6e1400e9345bc60c78a8bef57, using its corresponding private key. It uses the Ethereum node at ip address 192.168.1.112:

COGITO_FAUCET_PRIVATE_KEY=C87509A1C067BBDE78BEB793E6FA76530B6382A4C0241E5E4A9EC0A0F44DC0D3 \
cogito-faucet --donation 0.01 --provider http://192.168.1.112:8545 0x627306090abab3a6e1400e9345bc60c78a8bef57

Using the faucet

After the faucet is started, you can use test it by performing a post using e.g. curl:

curl -X POST -D - http://localhost:3001/donate/0xdf562290eceb83d659e23252ae8d38fa0bbc06e8

or using httpie:

http POST http://localhost:3001/donate/0xdf562290eceb83d659e23252ae8d38fa0bbc06e8

When using a deployed network, you may want to increase the timeouts. For curl:

curl -X POST -m 600 -D - https://blockchain.deployed.com/faucet/donate/0x6b0be084e6ffc7d6cace8e01e2814c869257c3aa

for httpie:

http --timeout=600 POST https://blockchain.deployed.com/faucet/donate/0x6b0be084e6ffc7d6cace8e01e2814c869257c3aa

This will give the network 10min.