<p>In order to get the current UTxOs for a descriptor, you can use the <code>scantxoutset</code> RPC command. It will scan the UTxO set but not the blockchain.</p>

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2023-10-06T13:57:19.053Z
Thanks for your response. Is there a way I can do it to mimick that of Blockchain.com to scan for the utxo of any wallet address and return the response immediately?
Topman
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2023-10-06T14:00:51.637Z
You can call it for multiple addresses / descriptors at once. If you want something more efficient you are probably looking for a "scriptpubkey indexer", such as an electrum server: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/ .
Antoine Poinsot
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2023-10-06T16:23:21.387Z
Thanks for your help, I will check it out.
Topman
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Antoine Poinsot
<p>In order to gather the utxos for an address <code>importdescriptors</code> will rescan the blockchain. Is there another way to get all the utxos for an address / descriptor without having to rescan the block chain?</p>

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Get utxos for an address without rescanning the whole chain
Topman
# Get utxos for an address without rescanning the whole chain

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-10-06)

In order to gather the utxos for an address `importdescriptors` will rescan the blockchain. Is there another way to get all the utxos for an address / descriptor without having to rescan the block chain?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, address, bitcoin-cli, output-script-descriptors, utxo-management


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-10-06. Score: 1

In order to get the current UTxOs for a descriptor, you can use the `scantxoutset` RPC command. It will scan the UTxO set but not the blockchain.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks for your response. Is there a way I can do it to mimick that of Blockchain.com to scan for the utxo of any wallet address and return the response immediately?  
> **username_1**: You can call it for multiple addresses / descriptors at once. If you want something more efficient you are probably looking for a "scriptpubkey indexer", such as an electrum server: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/ .  
> **username_0**: Thanks for your help, I will check it out.  

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