Localbitcoins.com API for Laravel

This package conects localbitcoins.com API. With this package you can:

• Query Balance for your wallet
• Get Bitcoin buyers for a specific regoin
• Initiate a sell trade
• Release bitcoin to a specific trade
• Get chat message from the buyer

Requirements

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• PHP 7.1+
• Composer

Installation

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To install this package run the commands bellow.

composer require ndlovu28/lbtc

Register the application in config/app.php by appending the line bellow in prividers section

Ndlovu28\Lbtc\LbtcServiceProvider::class,

Optionally you can add the bellow aliases section to call Lbtc in a short form.

'Lbtc' => Ndlovu28\Lbtc\Lbtc::class,

Load the database with the command bellow

php artisan migrate

Usage

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In your controller or class add the line bellow if you added aliases

use Lbtc;

Or this if you did not add aliases

use Ndlovu28\Lbtc\Lbtc;

Initialize the class with your localbitcoins key and secret

$lbtc = new Lbtc();
$lbtc->config($key, $secret);

Check Balance

$balance = $lbtc->checkBalance();

Get an andvert

Get advert with a matching amount to sell bitcoin for, the type of transaction, and location information. This will return the advert id if the found or false if not found

$ad_id = $lbtc->getBuyers('20000', 'm-pesa-tanzania-vodacom', 'Tanzania', 'TZ');

Initialize trade

Start a trade with the given ad_id from get advert query. See here for trx_data array for the required fields for diiiferent payment methods.

$contact_id = $lbtc->initTrade($ad_id, $amount, $message, $trx_data);

The above will return contact_id which can be used to send messages to the buyer and check status of the trade.

//Send mesaage to the buyer
$result = $lbtc->sendMessage($contact_id, $message);

//Get messages array from the buyer
$messages = $lbtc->getMessages($contact_id);

//Check the status of the trade, return true if complete of false if its still pending payment
$status = $lbtc-<checkTrade($contact_id);

//Release bitcoins once the payment has been marked as PAID: Retunrns boolean for status
$lbtc->releseTrade($contact_id)