getchaintips

POST

https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns information about all known tips in the block tree, including the main chain as well as orphaned forks.

Body

application/json

Returns information about all known tips in the block tree, including the main chain as well as orphaned forks.

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

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC protocol version.

idstringrequired

Client-provided request identifier echoed in the response.

methodstringgetchaintipsrequired

JSON-RPC method name.

paramsarrayrequired

This method takes no parameters.

Response

200OK

Chain tips 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

getchaintips

curl -X POST 'https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getchaintips",
    "params": []
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("getchaintips", []);
console.log(result);

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

uri = URI('https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getchaintips",
  "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-testnet4.nownodes.io/"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("getchaintips", [])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

const client = createPublicClient({
  transport: http("https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/"),
});

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

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://btc-testnet4.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: "getchaintips", params: [], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "1.0",
      "id": "curltest",
      "method": "getchaintips",
      "params": []
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

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

response = requests.post('https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/', json=payload)
data = response.json()

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://btc-testnet4.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getchaintips",
    "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": "curltest",
  "method": "getchaintips",
  "params": []
}

{
  "result": [
    {
      "height": 956047,
      "hash": "0000000000000000000160424415c96b888cc76a350b6f4218beef1caf1f71b3",
      "branchlen": 0,
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "height": 956020,
      "hash": "00000000000000000001b4e19b8d3f6a5c9e2d7b1a0f1234567890abcdef1234",
      "branchlen": 2,
      "status": "valid-fork"
    }
  ],
  "error": null,
  "id": 1
}

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

Unknown API_key

Method Not Allowed

Missing API_key

{
  "result": [
    {
      "height": 956047,
      "hash": "0000000000000000000160424415c96b888cc76a350b6f4218beef1caf1f71b3",
      "branchlen": 0,
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "height": 956020,
      "hash": "00000000000000000001b4e19b8d3f6a5c9e2d7b1a0f1234567890abcdef1234",
      "branchlen": 2,
      "status": "valid-fork"
    }
  ],
  "error": {
    "code": -28,
    "message": "Service temporarily unavailable"
  },
  "id": "curltest"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

getchaintips

Authorizations

Body

Response