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Arweave Python Client

Arweave Python Client is an MIT-licensed Python SDK for integrating applications and command-line workflows with the Arweave network. It exposes wallet operations, transaction handling, data storage and retrieval, large-file uploading, transaction status checks and ArQL searches.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when a Python application or CLI workflow needs documented access to Arweave wallets, transactions or stored data, including workflows that keep transaction IDs for later status checks.

Who it is for

  • Python developers integrating Arweave into applications
  • Teams building wallet or transaction-management utilities
  • Developers creating command-line tools for Arweave data and transaction inspection

Documented uses

  • Read an Arweave wallet balance and latest transaction ID
  • Create, sign and send Arweave transactions
  • Store and retrieve data attached to transactions
  • Upload large files progressively in chunks
  • Search transaction IDs with ArQL
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Requirements & limits

The repository is public and the project is identified as open source under the MIT license. Installation is documented through pip. Wallet data is required for wallet operations and can be supplied from a JSON file or through Wallet.from_data.

  • The client is Python-specific and exposes Arweave-oriented objects rather than a general multi-chain abstraction.
  • Transaction sending requires opening a wallet, creating a transaction, signing it and sending it.
  • Large-file workflows use an unbuffered file handle and progressive chunk uploads.
  • The client can target a specific node by setting the API URL on a wallet or transaction object.
  • ArQL search and transaction-data retrieval are included in the README examples.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Install the client and read wallet information

Set up the Python library and use a wallet JSON file or wallet data to read its balance and latest transaction ID.

Before you start

  • Python environment
  • The arweave-python-client package installed with pip
  • A wallet JSON file, or wallet data available to pass to Wallet.from_data

Steps

  1. Install the package with pip install arweave-python-client.

  2. Import arweave and create a Wallet with the path to the wallet JSON file.

  3. Alternatively, create the wallet with Wallet.from_data when the wallet data is stored outside a file.

  4. Read wallet.balance and call wallet.get_last_transaction_id().

Expected outcome

A Python workflow that accesses the wallet balance and latest transaction ID through the client.

Guide limitations

  • The documented steps cover wallet access and information retrieval, not wallet-data provisioning or a successful network response.
  • Wallet data remains a prerequisite for the wallet object.
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