namesPkg

chifra names

chifra names is a surprisingly useful tool. It allows one to associate textual names with Ethereum addresses. One may ask why this is necessary given that ENS exists. The answer is a single word: "privacy". ENS names are public. In many cases, users desire to keep personal addresses private. Try to do this on a website.

Like chifra abis, this tool is useful from the command line but is primarily used in support of other tools, especially chifra export where naming addresses becomes the single best way to turn unintelligible blockchain data into understandable information.

The various options allow you to search and filter the results. The tags option is used primarily by the TrueBlocks explorer.

You may use the TrueBlocks explorer to manage (add, edit, delete) address-name associations.

Purpose:
  Query addresses or names of well-known accounts.

Usage:
  chifra names [flags] <term> [term...]

Arguments:
  terms - a space separated list of one or more search terms (required)

Flags:
  -e, --expand            expand search to include all fields (search name, address, and symbol otherwise)
  -m, --match_case        do case-sensitive search
  -a, --all               include all (including custom) names in the search
  -c, --custom            include only custom named accounts in the search
  -p, --prefund           include prefund accounts in the search
  -s, --addr              display only addresses in the results (useful for scripting, assumes --no_header)
  -g, --tags              export the list of tags and subtags only
  -C, --clean             clean the data (addrs to lower case, sort by addr)
  -r, --regular           only available with --clean, cleans regular names database
  -d, --dry_run           only available with --clean or --autoname, outputs changes to stdout instead of updating databases
  -A, --autoname string   an address assumed to be a token, added automatically to names database if true
  -x, --fmt string        export format, one of [none|json*|txt|csv]
  -v, --verbose           enable verbose output
  -h, --help              display this help screen

Notes:
  - The tool will accept up to three terms, each of which must match against any field in the database.
  - The --match_case option enables case sensitive matching.

Data models produced by this tool:

• name

Other Options

All tools accept the following additional flags, although in some cases, they have no meaning.

  -v, --version         display the current version of the tool
      --output string   write the results to file 'fn' and return the filename
      --append          for --output command only append to instead of replace contents of file
      --file string     specify multiple sets of command line options in a file

Note: For the --file string option, you may place a series of valid command lines in a file using any valid flags. In some cases, this may significantly improve performance. A semi-colon at the start of any line makes it a comment.

Note: If you use --output --append option and at the same time the --file option, you may not switch export formats in the command file. For example, a command file with two different commands, one with --fmt csv and the other with --fmt json will produce both invalid CSV and invalid JSON.