Solana Cookbook for Python

The Solana Cookbook is a developer resource that provides examples and references for building applications on Solana. Each example and reference will focus on specific aspects of Solana development while providing additional details and usage examples.

Built with solana-py library.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Examples
  • Development Guides
  • Account Management
  • Token Operations
  • Transaction Operations
  • Wallet Management
• Contributing

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Examples

Development Guides

Topic	Description	Code
Connecting to Solana	How to connect to Solana clusters	01_connecting_to_solana.py
Getting Test SOL	How to get test SOL for development	02_getting_test_sol.py
Subscribing to Events	How to subscribe to account changes	03_subscribing_to_events.py
Create Account	How to create a new account on Solana	04_create_account.py

Account Management

Topic	Description	Code
Calculate Account Creation Cost	How to calculate the cost of creating an account	01_calculate_account_creation_cost.py
Create PDA Account	How to create a Program Derived Address (PDA) account	02_create_pda_account.py
Get Account Balance	How to get the balance of an account	03_get_account_balance.py

Token Operations

Topic	Description	Code
Create Token	How to create a new SPL token	01_create_token.py
Get Token Mint	How to get token mint information	02_get_token_mint.py
Create Token Account	How to create a token account	03_create_token_account.py
Get Token Account	How to get token account information	04_get_token_account.py
Get Token Balance	How to get the balance of a token account	05_get_token_balance.py
Mint Tokens	How to mint tokens to an account	06_mint_tokens.py
Burn Tokens	How to burn tokens from an account	07_burn_tokens.py
Transfer Tokens	How to transfer tokens between accounts	08_transfer_tokens.py
Close Token Account	How to close a token account	09_close_token_account.py
Get All Token Accounts by Owner	How to get all token accounts owned by an address	10_get_all_token_accounts_by_owner.py
Set Authority	How to set authority on token accounts or mints	11_set_authority.py
Delegate Token Account	How to delegate token accounts	12_delegate_token_account.py
Revoke Delegate	How to revoke a token delegate	13_revoke_delegate.py
Wrapped SOL	How to use wrapped SOL	14_wrapped_sol.py

Transaction Operations

Topic	Description	Code
Send SOL	How to send SOL between accounts	01_send_sol.py
Send Tokens	How to send tokens between accounts	02_send_tokens.py
Calculate Transaction Cost	How to calculate transaction costs	03_calculate_transaction_cost.py
Add Memo to Transaction	How to add a memo to a transaction	04_add_memo_to_transaction.py
Add Priority Fees	How to add priority fees to transactions	05_add_priority_fees.py
Optimize Compute Requested	How to optimize compute units for transactions	06_optimize_compute_requested.py
Offline Transactions	How to create and sign transactions offline	07_offline_transactions.py

Wallet Management

Topic	Description	Code
Create Keypair	How to create a new keypair	01_create_keypair.py
Restore Keypair	How to restore a keypair from a seed phrase	02_restore_keypair.py
Verify Keypair	How to verify a keypair	03_verify_keypair.py
Validate Public Key	How to validate a public key	04_validate_public_key.py
Sign and Verify Message	How to sign and verify messages	05_sign_verify_message.py

Running Examples

Each example can be run independently:

cd "Token Operations"
python 01_create_token.py

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• solana-py
• solders
• spl-token

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.