NEAR-CLI-RS

Quick Start Guide

The near-cli-rs tool is a human-friendly companion that helps you interact with the NEAR Protocol from the command line. This has a guided prompt interface to help you make your own commands built in Rust.

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This is a separate tool from near-cli, a CLI tool of similar functionality without the guided prompts.

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Install

Download the pre-compiled version of near-cli-rs for your OS from GitHub Releases Page or install it with Cargo (Rust’s package manager tool) with the following command:

$ cargo install near-cli-rs

Getting Started

To utilize the commands that involve transactions, sending tokens, deploying contracts, etc., you’ll have to store a full access key to a given account on your machine.

Run…

near-cli

Using the arrow keys navigate to…

account  -Manage accounts

Navigate to…

import-account -Import existing account (a.k.a. "sign-in")

choose any of the preferred sign-in methods. For this example, we’ll choose the…

using-web-wallet -Import existing account using NEAR Wallet (a.k.a. "sign in")
### Account
- Gives you information on a specified account, near balance, storage, list of access keys, etc.

For this tutorial select testnet

What is the name of the network?
mainnet
>testnet
shardnet

You’ll get redirected to wallet.testnet.near.org. Once there, grant authorization. Then in your terminal, you’ll be asked to enter your account ID. Give it the name of the account you just authorized access to and a full access key.

If you’re on Mac you’ll have the option to use the Mac Keychain option.

Either storage option is fine. Using the legacy storage option will save a file in your root directory in a hidden folder called ./near-credentials. This storage option is compatable with the near-cli tool (a cli tool without the guided prompts but similar functionality).

Good Job!
Now you can use near-cli-rs to it’s full capacity.

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Usage

To use the near-cli-rs simply run the following in your terminal.

$ near-cli

You should then see the following. Use the arrow keys and hit enter or simply type out one of the available options to select an option

Accounts

This option will allow you to manage, control, and retrieve information on your accounts.

Option	Description
view-account-summary	View properties for an account
import-account	Import existing account (a.k.a. "sign in")
create-account	Create a new account
delete-account	Delete an Account
list-keys	View a list of keys for an account
add-key	Add an access key to an account
delete-key	Delete an access key from an account

Tokens

This will allow you to manage your token assets such as NEAR, FTs and NFTs

Option	Description
send-near	Transfers NEAR to a specified recipient in units of NEAR or yoctoNEAR
send-ft	Transfer Fungible Tokens to a specified user
send-nft	Transfers NFTs between accounts
view-near-balance	View the balance of NEAR tokens
view-ft-balance	View the balance of NEAR Tokens
view-nft-assets	View the balance of NFT Tokens

Contract

This option allows you to manage and interact with your smart contracts

Option	Description
call-function	Execute Function
deploy	Add a new contract code
download-wasm	Download Wasm

Transaction

Operate Transactions

Option	Description
view-status	View a transaction status
construct-tansaction	Construct a new transaction

Config

Manage the connection parameters inside the config.toml file for near-cli-rs

This will allow you to change or modify the network connections for your CLI.

Option	Description
show-connections	Show a list of network connections
add-connection	Add a network connection
delete-connection	Delete a network Connection

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