Pywallet Issues Importing Solutions

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just_altMember
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#1Jun 29, 2017, 03:33 AM
I've gone through a ton of threads and managed to get some wallets back. I’ve been in the game for a while, so I’ve got a lot of addresses. This info comes from a -dumpwithbalance output, plus I used a recovery option. I’ve got a couple of questions: First, all the balances show "Rate limited". Is there a way to fix that so I can actually see the balances? Also, is there an easy way to pull just the "sec: "<key>" from the text file and save only those keys for importing into Electrum? By the way, the wallet I created with the recovery option doesn’t load in my local QT Bitcoin Core (28.1), but I did have some success with a few test imports into Electrum. Here’s some sample data: "addr": "<addr>", "balance": "Rate limited", "compressed": false, "encrypted_privkey": "7<privkey>", "hexsec": "88<hex>", "label": "recovered: 88<recover>", "pubkey": "04f<pubkey>", "reserve": 0, "sec": "5Jr<sec>", "secret": "88<secret>"
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humbleledgerLegendary
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#2Jun 29, 2017, 04:42 AM
Electrum isn't designed to check thousands of addresses at once. If you want to check the balance for a lot of addresses, read List of all Bitcoin addresses with a balance. I'd use grep:
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gr3g.0rbitHero Member
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#3Jun 29, 2017, 06:42 AM
That's a response from Blockchain(dot)com's API if you've sent multiple queries in just a short while or your IP is above their limit. The link is; Pywallet is using that as its main API endpoint and since there's no error response and Pywallet doesn't know how to handle such value, it took that (rate limited) as your balance. It was written years ago when Blockchain had less strict limits, BTW. Use manual query like what Loyce suggested or change the API endpoint in Pywallet's code to another balance check API.
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just_altMember
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#4Jun 29, 2017, 08:11 AM
Thanks for the info, will give these ideas a try.
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