Get an account balance

POST

https://lukso.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Invokes eth_getBalance on LUKSO Mainnet and returns its result.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC version

methodstringrequired

JSON-RPC method name

paramsArray<string>required

Array with 2 parameters: 1. Address (20-byte hex string with '0x' prefix) 2. Block tag (e.g., 'latest', 'earliest', 'pending', or block number in hex)

idintegerrequired

Request ID

Response

200OK

Balance (in wei) as hex string

Get an account balance

curl -X POST 'https://lukso.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "eth_getBalance",
    "params": [
      "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
      "latest"
    ]
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://lukso.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("eth_getBalance", [
  "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
  "latest"
]);
console.log(result);

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

uri = URI('https://lukso.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "eth_getBalance",
  "params": [
    "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
    "latest"
  ],
  "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://lukso.nownodes.io/"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("eth_getBalance", [
  "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
  "latest"
])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

const result = await client.request({
  method: "eth_getBalance",
  params: [
  "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
  "latest"
],
});

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://lukso.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_getBalance", params: [
  "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
  "latest"
], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://lukso.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "id": 1,
      "method": "eth_getBalance",
      "params": [
        "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
        "latest"
      ]
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "eth_getBalance",
  "params": [
    "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
    "latest"
  ]
}

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://lukso.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "eth_getBalance",
    "params": [
      "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
      "latest"
    ]
  }'

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",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "eth_getBalance",
  "params": [
    "0x78b28c90b553c9445e37c0e13edb78402ce69d42",
    "latest"
  ]
}

200

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x83235b9fc02bd7ef3"
}