# Command line light wallets

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/command-line-light-wallets/46696>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/command-line-light-wallets/46696 "2024-01-26T16:48:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![TerrieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@TerrieB](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/TerrieB)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/command-line-light-wallets/46696/1 "2024-01-26T16:48:31Z")

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**zecwallet-light-cli replacements**

Hello,

Since zecwallet-light-cli seems defunct (because its repository is archived, and it seems to still use the old transaction fee of 0.00001 ZEC instead of the more recent 0.0001 ZEC, and there seems to be no way of changing that), what other command-line light wallets would you recommend?

Perhaps one of the GUI light wallets supports some form of RPC or CLI?

Instead of the CLI app, I could also use a Python library similar to web3.

I’m mostly looking for an unattended (programmatic) ability to

- create new accounts (perhaps from a seed phrase),
- import private spending or viewing keys,
- track balance,
- create, sign and broadcast transactions (both shielded and transparent).

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Autotunafish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/autotunafish/32/7827_2.png) [@Autotunafish](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Autotunafish)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/command-line-light-wallets/46696/2 "2024-01-26T17:53:45Z")

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Firstly, I’ll link Zingo cli which works great out of the box.

> **[GitHub - zingolabs/zingolib: An API and test-app that exposes zcash...](https://github.com/zingolabs/zingolib)**
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> An API and test-app that exposes zcash functionality for app consumption - GitHub - zingolabs/zingolib: An API and test-app that exposes zcash functionality for app consumption

There are the Ywallet and ECC’s SDK libs which you could look at and they are command line accessible but they don’t have a cli wallet version. At least I don’t think.  
The extent of functionality of the wallets wrt the requirements that you specify is something that you’ll have to read into more.

> **[GitHub - hhanh00/zcash-sync at 049438d53ff3d3af27dc59eea50b94b3b5c02a68](https://github.com/hhanh00/zcash-sync/tree/049438d53ff3d3af27dc59eea50b94b3b5c02a68)**
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> 049438d53ff3d3af27dc59eea50b94b3b5c02a68