Ethereum method - eth_blockNumber

POST

https://eth-archive.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the number of the latest block on the chain in hexadecimal format.

Body

application/json

Returns the number of the latest block on the chain in hexadecimal format.

Request payload for Returns the number of the latest block on the chain in hexadecimal format..

jsonrpcstringrequired

The JSON-RPC protocol version

methodstringrequired

Name of the method being called

paramsarrayrequired

This method does not take parameters; always send an empty array.

idintegerrequired

A unique ID for the request

Response

200OK

The latest block number

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

Upstream node or gateway error.

Ethereum method - eth_blockNumber

curl -X POST 'https://eth-archive.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "eth_blockNumber",
    "params": [],
    "id": 1
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

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

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

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

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

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

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://eth-archive.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: "eth_blockNumber", params: [], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://eth-archive.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "method": "eth_blockNumber",
      "params": [],
      "id": 1
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "eth_blockNumber",
  "params": [],
  "id": 1
}

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

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

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

Request Body

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "eth_blockNumber",
  "params": [],
  "id": 1
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x184077e"
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "error": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "Invalid params"
  }
}

Unknown API_key

Method Not Allowed

Missing API_key

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "error": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "Invalid params"
  }
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Ethereum method - eth_blockNumber

Authorizations

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Response