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title: How do I see the list of API functions I can call, and how do I call them?
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Here is an example script to get the documentation for the various API calls. To use any of the functions displayed, just provide any specified arguments in a dictionary. Many (though not all) of the calls are the same as those for bitcoin core, which are documented [here](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list).

If for some reason you can't get lbrycrd-cli working to make these calls, make sure you passed -server when starting lbrycrd. If it still doesn't work, you can use this command if running lbrycrd with -server:

`curl --user USER:PASSWORD --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "COMMAND", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:9245/`

USER and PASSWORD come from the above instructions and can be found in your lbrycrd.conf file ([important directories](https://lbry.io/faq/lbry-directories)), COMMAND can be any of the supported methods like getbalance or getnewaddress. 9245 is the default port used, but if you chose a custom port for the server, you'll need to use that instead. If the command accepts parameters, they can be passed inside the params array [].

Note: the lbry api can only be used while either the app or lbrynet-daemon command line are running

    import sys
    from jsonrpc.proxy import JSONRPCProxy

    try:
      from lbrynet.conf import API_CONNECTION_STRING
    except:
      print "You don't have lbrynet installed!"
      sys.exit(0)

    api = JSONRPCProxy.from_url(API_CONNECTION_STRING)
    if not api.is_running():
      print api.daemon_status()
    else:
      for func in api.help():
        print "%s:\n%s" % (func, api.help({'function': func}))