Get the block data for a specific block hash

POST

https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

API_key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the full block data including header and extrinsics for a specific block hash.

Body

application/json

API_keystring

jsonrpcstring

idstring

methodstring

paramsArray<string>

Response

200OK

Block data for the given hash

400Bad Request

Bad Request

500Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

Get the block data for a specific block hash

curl -X POST 'https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "API_key": "your_API_key",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "test",
    "method": "chain_getBlock",
    "params": [
      "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
    ]
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock");
const result = await provider.send("chain_getBlock", [
  "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
]);
console.log(result);

require 'eth'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "chain_getBlock",
  "params": [
    "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
  ],
  "id": 1
}'

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

puts JSON.parse(response.body)

from web3 import Web3

w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider("https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("chain_getBlock", [
  "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

const client = createPublicClient({
  transport: http("https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock"),
});

const result = await client.request({
  method: "chain_getBlock",
  params: [
  "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
],
});

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock";
const apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

async function nownodesRequest(payload) {
  const response = await fetch(endpoint, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "api-key": apiKey,
    },
    body: JSON.stringify(payload),
  });

  return response.json();
}

const result = await nownodesRequest({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "chain_getBlock", params: [
  "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "API_key": "your_API_key",
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "id": "test",
      "method": "chain_getBlock",
      "params": [
        "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
      ]
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "API_key": "your_API_key",
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "test",
  "method": "chain_getBlock",
  "params": [
    "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
  ]
}

response = requests.post('https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock', json=payload)
data = response.json()

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://atleta.nownodes.io/chain_getBlock')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "API_key": "your_API_key",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "test",
    "method": "chain_getBlock",
    "params": [
      "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
    ]
  }'

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }
data = JSON.parse(response.body)

Request Body

{
  "API_key": "your_API_key",
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "test",
  "method": "chain_getBlock",
  "params": [
    "0xe989360ae9983bdd1c13ea0b18cea85a751c576788644407747484516570a466"
  ]
}

200

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "block": {
      "header": {
        "parentHash": "0xc4039c4642d010c47411ebd5a9147068336a8c8d614726627302a5aa74c07e58",
        "number": "0x3f8fc",
        "stateRoot": "0x2774971b37f719b335cdf0a0d31baff082baee09a2cc852d627db533f6bcad8f",
        "extrinsicsRoot": "0x30b066735be64e004bf1f0912db387751366a2d5d43cc13f03507c8dabcf55d8",
        "digest": {
          "logs": [
            "0x0642414245b5010300000000848c341100000000d21b0d74ddfe4121cd5957279898841dbb210b092775e546da37c4e521105d4514e920eabcd2667a56979beded4dc828afabe1a1f9fd409b38b16f750a26ba057b176fa0b84c65699e69e18e7ae2e45cacd1e680079c9f1b5ee2087e86f5730f"
          ]
        },
        "extrinsics": [
          "0x280401000bc1559d3f9301",
          "0x390b0428001400000000008c48bd51381c4202db7520c12963fd89bb151b47416ce7d74e9f5ab14ded1275990788beced7b3cd4f038dcd592f76d3048e7191fcdf66c2488a81efc9f2c983000100000..."
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "id": "test"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Get the block data for a specific block hash

Authorizations

Body

Response