Bitcoin URIs

Represents a bitcoin payment URI. Bitcoin URI strings became the most popular way to share payment request, sometimes as a bitcoin link and others using a QR code.

URI Examples:

bitcoin:12A1MyfXbW6RhdRAZEqofac5jCQQjwEPBu
bitcoin:12A1MyfXbW6RhdRAZEqofac5jCQQjwEPBu?amount=1.2
bitcoin:12A1MyfXbW6RhdRAZEqofac5jCQQjwEPBu?amount=1.2&message=Payment&label=Satoshi&extra=other-param

URI Validation

The main use that we expect you’ll have for the URI class in bitcore is validating and parsing bitcoin URIs. A URI instance exposes the address as a bitcore Address object and the amount in Satoshis, if present.

The code for validating URIs looks like this:

var uriString = 'bitcoin:12A1MyfXbW6RhdRAZEqofac5jCQQjwEPBu?amount=1.2';
var valid = URI.isValid(uriString);
var uri = new URI(uriString);
console.log(uri.address.network, uri.amount); // 'livenet', 120000000

URI Parameters

All standard parameters can be found as members of the URI instance. However a bitcoin URI may contain other non-standard parameters, all those can be found under the extra namespace.

See the official BIP21 spec for more information.

Create URI

Another important use case for the URI class is creating a bitcoin URI for sharing a payment request. That can be accomplished by using a dictionary to create an instance of URI.

The code for creating an URI from an Object looks like this:

var uriString = new URI({
  address: '12A1MyfXbW6RhdRAZEqofac5jCQQjwEPBu',
  amount : 10000, // in satoshis
  message: 'My payment request'
});
var uriString = uri.toString();