.TH "LIGHTNING-HELP" "7" "" "" "lightning-help"
.SH NAME
lightning-help - Command to return all information about RPC commands\.
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBhelp\fR [\fIcommand\\\fR]

.SH DESCRIPTION

The \fBhelp\fR is a RPC command which is possible consult all information about the RPC commands, or a specific command if \fIcommand\fR is given\.


Note that the \fBlightning-cli\fR(1) tool will prefer to list a man page when a
specific \fIcommand\fR is specified, and will only return the JSON if the man
page is not found\.

.SH EXAMPLE JSON REQUEST
.nf
.RS
{
  "id": 82,
  "method": "help",
  "params": {}
}
.RE

.fi
.SH RETURN VALUE

On success, an object is returned, containing:

.RS
.IP \[bu]
\fBhelp\fR (array of objects):
.RS
.IP \[bu]
\fBcommand\fR (string): the command
.IP \[bu]
\fBcategory\fR (string): the category for this command (useful for grouping)
.IP \[bu]
\fBdescription\fR (string): a one-line description of the purpose of this command
.IP \[bu]
\fBverbose\fR (string): a full description of this command (including whether it's deprecated)

.RE


.RE

On failure, one of the following error codes may be returned:

.RS
.IP \[bu]
-32602: Error in given parameters\.

.RE
.SH EXAMPLE JSON RESPONSE
.nf
.RS
{
    "help": [
      {
        "command": "autocleaninvoice [cycle_seconds] [expired_by]",
        "category": "plugin",
        "description": "Set up autoclean of expired invoices. ",
        "verbose": "Perform cleanup every {cycle_seconds} (default 3600), or disable autoclean if 0. Clean up expired invoices that have expired for {expired_by} seconds (default 86400). "
      }
    ]
}
.RE

.fi
.SH AUTHOR

Vincenzo Palazzo \fI<vincenzo.palazzo@protonmail.com\fR> wrote the initial version of this man page, but many others did the hard work of actually implementing this rpc command\.

.SH RESOURCES

Main web site: \fIhttps://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning\fR

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