Lightning Network Pathfinding

Methods

• calculateHops - Pathfind to get payment hops from channels
• calculatePaths - Pathfind to find multiple routes to pay

calculateHops

Calculate hops between start and end nodes

{
  channels: [{
    capacity: <Capacity Tokens Number>
    id: <Standard Channel Id String>
    policies: [{
      base_fee_mtokens: <Base Fee Millitokens String>
      cltv_delta: <CLTV Delta Number>
      fee_rate: <Fee Rate Number>
      is_disabled: <Channel is Disabled Bool>
      max_htlc_mtokens: <Maximum HTLC Millitokens String>
      min_htlc_mtokens: <Minimum HTLC Millitokens String>
      public_key: <Public Key Hex String>
    }]
  }]
  end: <End Public Key Hex String>
  [ignore]: [{
    [channel]: <Standard Format Channel Id String>
    public_key: <Public Key Hex String>
  }]
  mtokens: <Millitokens Number>
  start: <Start Public Key Hex String>
}

@throws
<Error>

@returns
{
  [hops]: [{
    base_fee_mtokens: <Base Fee Millitokens String>
    channel: <Standard Channel Id String>
    channel_capacity: <Channel Capacity Tokens Number>
    cltv_delta: <CLTV Delta Number>
    fee_rate: <Fee Rate Number>
    public_key: <Public Key Hex String>
  }]
}

Example:

const {calculateHops} = require('ln-pathfinding');
const {getIdentity, getNetworkGraph} = require('ln-service');
const {channels} = await getNetworkGraph({lnd});
const end = 'destinationPublicKeyHexString';
const start = (await getIdentity({lnd})).public_key;_
const {hops} = calculateHops({channels, end, start, mtokens: '1000'});

calculatePaths

Calculate multiple routes to a destination

{
  channels: [{
    capacity: <Capacity Tokens Number>
    id: <Standard Channel Id String>
    policies: [{
      base_fee_mtokens: <Base Fee Millitokens String>
      cltv_delta: <CLTV Delta Number>
      fee_rate: <Fee Rate Number>
      is_disabled: <Channel is Disabled Bool>
      max_htlc_mtokens: <Maximum HTLC Millitokens String>
      min_htlc_mtokens: <Minimum HTLC Millitokens String>
      public_key: <Public Key Hex String>
    }]
  }]
  end: <End Public Key Hex String>
  [limit]: <Paths To Return Limit Number>
  mtokens: <Millitokens Number>
  start: <Start Public Key Hex String>
}

@throws
<Error>

@returns
{
  [paths]: [{
    hops: [{
      base_fee_mtokens: <Base Fee Millitokens String>
      channel: <Standard Channel Id String>
      channel_capacity: <Channel Capacity Tokens Number>
      cltv_delta: <CLTV Delta Number>
      fee_rate: <Fee Rate Number>
      public_key: <Public Key Hex String>
    }]
  }]
}

Example:

const {calculatePaths} = require('ln-pathfinding');
const {getIdentity, getNetworkGraph} = require('ln-service');
const {channels} = await getNetworkGraph({lnd});
const end = 'destinationPublicKeyHexString';
const start = (await getIdentity({lnd})).public_key;
const {paths} = calculatePaths({channels, end, start, mtokens: '1000'});