Bitcoin TXID Checker

Bitcoin transaction ID confirmation checker using Discord Webhook.

Quite self-explanatory, fill in some essential information, run the script then input a couple values and it will notify you in the Discord server channel that you chose using webhook when your BTC TXID is confirmed in the blockchain.

Requirements:

1. python3
2. dhooks
3. Your own Discord Webhook URL

Instructions for absolute beginners:

1. Install Python from python.org.
2. Go to releases to download & extract the Source code.zip file. Make sure all the files are inside the same folder.
3. Install requirements.txt using Pip.

   Navigate into the folder using cd in your CMD (Windows) or terminal (Unix). Look it up if you're unsure how to do that. Once inside the folder do pip install -r requirements.txt for Windows. For Linux/Mac do pip3 install -r requirements.txt. If you encounter an error here then you did something wrong while installing Python.

4. In Discord, go to User Settings -> Appearance -> scroll until you find Advanced category -> enable Developer Mode. (Picture example.)
5. In Discord, create a new server. Create a channel where you want to display the message when your TXID confirms (must be a text channel). Go to that channel's settings -> Integrations -> in Webhooks category click Create Webhook. Change name & avatar if you want to. (Picture example.)

   Do not share the webhook URL with anybody.

6. Open settings.json from the folder you downloaded and extracted.
7. Go to the webhooks settings in Discord just like before and copy the webhook URL, (picture example), then replace the text inside the quotations after "webhook": in settings.json file with the webhook URL you just copied. KEEP the quotations around the URL.

   Your settings.json file should look something like this now.

   {
       "webhook": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/.../...",
       "userID": REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_DISCORD_ID___DO_NOT_PUT_ANY_QUOTATIONS_HERE
   }

   The '...' portion is different for each webhook URL.

8. Go back to the server you created and right click your profile from the member list. Click on Copy ID (picture example) and paste that after "userID": in settings.json. DO NOT put quotations around this.

   Your settings.json file should look something like this now.

   {
       "webhook": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/.../...",
       "userID": 362181701373263875
   }

   Each user has an unique userID; yours should be different from the example above.

9. Save the settings.json file and close it. In most cases you'll never need to touch it ever again. After you're done tweaking the settings.json once again make sure that all files are inside the same folder.
10. Open your terminal, or command prompt for Windows (no need to open as admin), and navigate inside the folder just like in step 3.
11. Once inside the folder, type python main.py for Windows or python3 main.py if you're on Linux or Mac to run the script. Follow what the script prompts from then on.

Some things to note:

1. If you ever delete the server, channel, or start using new Discord account you'll have to update settings.json accordingly.
2. While inputting TXID, only input the TXID/hash not a URL. For example, do not put in https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/5d9ef693d41cb3bb4c6d98e70ea8b2cc91be29a804245a06ec8761d9cddc103c, instead just input 5d9ef693d41cb3bb4c6d98e70ea8b2cc91be29a804245a06ec8761d9cddc103c.
3. If you don't say how frequently you want to check the blockchain, a 'default' interval will be set which is set to check every 60 seconds. Quickest you can check is 30 seconds but since this is open source you can obviously edit that value yourself. I wouldn't recommened going lower as you might get your IP banned from the API but do as you wish not my problem.