getnetworkhashps

POST

https://btc.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the estimated network hashes per second (hash rate) based on the last nblocks blocks. This provides an estimate of the total computational power securing the network.

Body

application/json

Returns the estimated network hashes per second (hash rate) based on the last nblocks blocks. This provides an estimate of the total computational power securing the network.

Request payload containing the documented method parameters and client request identifier.

jsonrpcstringrequired

The JSON-RPC protocol version (always "1.0")

idstringrequired

The identifier for the request

methodstringgetnetworkhashpsrequired

The name of the RPC method

paramsArray<integer>required

Optional parameters:

nblocks (integer) — The number of blocks to average over. Default is 120.
height (integer) — Use the block at this height instead of the current tip. Use -1 for the tip.

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Single entry in the params array.

One of

JSON-RPC method parameters.

integer

Response

200OK

Hash rate retrieved successfully

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

getnetworkhashps

curl -X POST 'https://btc.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getnetworkhashps",
    "params": [
      120,
      -1
    ]
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://btc.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("getnetworkhashps", [
  120,
  -1
]);
console.log(result);

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

uri = URI('https://btc.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getnetworkhashps",
  "params": [
    120,
    -1
  ],
  "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.nownodes.io/"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("getnetworkhashps", [
  120,
  -1
])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

const result = await client.request({
  method: "getnetworkhashps",
  params: [
  120,
  -1
],
});

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://btc.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: "getnetworkhashps", params: [
  120,
  -1
], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://btc.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "1.0",
      "id": "curltest",
      "method": "getnetworkhashps",
      "params": [
        120,
        -1
      ]
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "1.0",
  "id": "curltest",
  "method": "getnetworkhashps",
  "params": [
    120,
    -1
  ]
}

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://btc.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getnetworkhashps",
    "params": [
      120,
      -1
    ]
  }'

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": "curltest",
  "method": "getnetworkhashps",
  "params": [
    120,
    -1
  ]
}

{
  "result": 1,
  "error": null,
  "id": 1
}

{
  "result": null,
  "error": {
    "code": -3,
    "message": "Invalid parameter"
  },
  "id": 1
}

Unknown API_key

Method Not Allowed

Missing API_key

{
  "result": 1,
  "error": {
    "code": -28,
    "message": "Service temporarily unavailable"
  },
  "id": "curltest"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

getnetworkhashps

Authorizations

Body

Response