Get Blockbook and backend status.

GET

https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns Blockbook sync state and connected backend metadata.

Load estimate: Low; constant-size status metadata.

Response

200OK

Current Blockbook and backend status.

401Unauthorized

Unauthorized: API key is present but rejected by the NOWNodes gateway.

405Method Not Allowed

Method Not Allowed. Returned by the NOWNodes gateway for malformed or unsupported gateway-level requests.

422Unprocessable Entity

Missing API key. The NOWNodes gateway returns plain text for this error.

default

Public API error. Public validation errors are HTTP 400; internal errors are HTTP 500.

Get Blockbook and backend status.

curl -X GET 'https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status'

const response = await fetch('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status', {
  method: 'GET',
});

const data = await response.json();

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

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

import requests

response = requests.get('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status')
data = response.json()

const response = await fetch('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status', {
  method: 'GET',
});

const data = await response.json();

const endpoint = "https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status";
const apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

  return response.json();
}

const result = await nownodesRequest({});
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status', {
  method: 'GET',
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.get('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status')
data = response.json()

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://bsc-blockbook.nownodes.io/api/status')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

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

{
  "blockbook": {
    "coin": "BNB Smart Chain Archive",
    "network": "BNB",
    "host": "63428cd743ea",
    "version": "devel",
    "gitCommit": "3e4c0da",
    "buildTime": "2026-05-07T23:17:36+0000",
    "syncMode": true,
    "initialSync": false,
    "inSync": true,
    "bestHeight": 103223019,
    "lastBlockTime": "2026-06-09T12:26:41.876246488Z",
    "inSyncMempool": true,
    "lastMempoolTime": "2026-06-09T12:26:42.188219498Z",
    "mempoolSize": 905243,
    "decimals": 18,
    "dbSize": 2577629015447,
    "hasFiatRates": true,
    "hasTokenFiatRates": true,
    "currentFiatRatesTime": "2026-06-09T12:21:06.936303711Z",
    "historicalFiatRatesTime": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
    "historicalTokenFiatRatesTime": "2025-11-25T06:33:20.61689154Z",
    "about": "Blockbook - blockchain indexer for Trezor Suite https://trezor.io/trezor-suite. Do not use for any other purpose."
  },
  "backend": {
    "chain": "mainnet",
    "blocks": 103223018,
    "bestBlockHash": "0xf9382b9281999d73557fb535508dc842bc4e55dee67d48ebd88c2f96ca3f6b8e",
    "difficulty": "2",
    "version": "reth/v1.10.2-95d649f/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
  }
}

Unknown API_key

Method Not Allowed

Missing API_key

{
  "error": "Transaction 'missing-txid' not found"
}