getnetworkinfo

POST

https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns Bitcoin Core node network information, including P2P services, transport reachability, connection counts, relay fees, and warnings. Bitcoin Core 32.1 may also include asmap_version when ASMap is configured. Its absence is expected when ASMap is not in use.

Body

application/json

JSON-RPC payload for getnetworkinfo.

JSON-RPC request envelope sent to NOWNodes.

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC protocol version.

idstring | integerrequired

Client-provided request ID echoed in the response.

methodstringgetnetworkinforequired

JSON-RPC method name.

paramsArray<any>required

No positional parameters. Send an empty params array.

Response

200OK

Network information retrieved successfully, or JSON-RPC error returned in the response envelope.

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.

500Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

getnetworkinfo

curl -X POST 'https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "getnetworkinfo",
    "method": "getnetworkinfo",
    "params": []
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("getnetworkinfo", []);
console.log(result);

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

uri = URI('https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getnetworkinfo",
  "params": [],
  "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://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("getnetworkinfo", [])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

const client = createPublicClient({
  transport: http("https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/"),
});

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

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/";
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: "getnetworkinfo", params: [], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "1.0",
      "id": "getnetworkinfo",
      "method": "getnetworkinfo",
      "params": []
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "1.0",
  "id": "getnetworkinfo",
  "method": "getnetworkinfo",
  "params": []
}

response = requests.post('https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/', json=payload)
data = response.json()

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://btc-testnet.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "getnetworkinfo",
    "method": "getnetworkinfo",
    "params": []
  }'

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

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "1.0",
  "id": "getnetworkinfo",
  "method": "getnetworkinfo",
  "params": []
}

{
  "result": {
    "version": 320100,
    "subversion": "/Satoshi:32.1.0/",
    "protocolversion": 70017,
    "localservices": "0000000000000c09",
    "localservicesnames": [
      "NETWORK",
      "WITNESS",
      "NETWORK_LIMITED",
      "P2P_V2"
    ],
    "localrelay": true,
    "timeoffset": 0,
    "tx_send_rate": 14,
    "inv_buckets": {
      "inbound": {
        "backlog": 0,
        "count_tok": 420,
        "size_tok": 50000000
      },
      "outbound": {
        "backlog": 0,
        "count_tok": 420,
        "size_tok": 50000000
      }
    },
    "networkactive": true,
    "connections": 10,
    "connections_in": 0,
    "connections_out": 10,
    "networks": [
      {
        "name": "ipv4",
        "limited": false,
        "reachable": true,
        "proxy": "",
        "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
      },
      {
        "name": "ipv6",
        "limited": false,
        "reachable": true,
        "proxy": "",
        "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
      },
      {
        "name": "onion",
        "limited": true,
        "reachable": false,
        "proxy": "",
        "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
      },
      {
        "name": "i2p",
        "limited": true,
        "reachable": false,
        "proxy": "",
        "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
      },
      {
        "name": "cjdns",
        "limited": true,
        "reachable": false,
        "proxy": "",
        "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
      }
    ],
    "relayfee": 0.000001,
    "incrementalfee": 0.000001,
    "localaddresses": [],
    "warnings": "Unknown new rules activated (versionbit 2)"
  },
  "error": null,
  "id": "getnetworkinfo"
}

{
  "result": null,
  "error": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "Invalid params"
  },
  "id": "getnetworkinfo"
}

Unknown API_key

Method Not Allowed

Missing API_key

{
  "result": {
    "version": 320100,
    "subversion": "/Satoshi:32.1.0/",
    "protocolversion": 70017,
    "localservices": "0000000000000c09",
    "localservicesnames": [
      "NETWORK",
      "WITNESS",
      "NETWORK_LIMITED",
      "P2P_V2"
    ],
    "localrelay": true,
    "timeoffset": 0,
    "tx_send_rate": 14,
    "inv_buckets": {
      "inbound": {
        "backlog": 0,
        "count_tok": 420,
        "size_tok": 50000000
      },
      "outbound": {
        "backlog": 0,
        "count_tok": 420,
        "size_tok": 50000000
      }
    },
    "networkactive": true,
    "connections": 10,
    "connections_in": 0,
    "connections_out": 10,
    "networks": [
      {
        "name": "ipv4",
        "limited": false,
        "reachable": true,
        "proxy": "",
        "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
      }
    ],
    "relayfee": 0.000001,
    "incrementalfee": 0.000001,
    "localaddresses": [],
    "warnings": "Unknown new rules activated (versionbit 2)",
    "asmap_version": "string"
  },
  "error": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "Invalid params"
  },
  "id": "string"
}