Get Block by Number

POST

https://sys-evm.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the block information for the specified block number. The second parameter indicates whether to return full transaction objects or just transaction hashes.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC version

methodstringrequired

JSON-RPC method name

paramsArray<string>required

Array of parameters:

Block number (hex string, e.g., "0x1b4") or special tags ("latest", "earliest", "pending")
Boolean flag — if true, return full transactions; if false, only hashes.

idintegerrequired

Request ID

Response

200OK

Block information

Get Block by Number

curl -X POST 'https://sys-evm.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",
    "params": [
      "0x1b4",
      false
    ],
    "id": 1
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://sys-evm.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("eth_getBlockByNumber", [
  "0x1b4",
  false
]);
console.log(result);

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

uri = URI('https://sys-evm.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",
  "params": [
    "0x1b4",
    false
  ],
  "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://sys-evm.nownodes.io/"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("eth_getBlockByNumber", [
  "0x1b4",
  false
])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

const result = await client.request({
  method: "eth_getBlockByNumber",
  params: [
  "0x1b4",
  false
],
});

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://sys-evm.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_getBlockByNumber", params: [
  "0x1b4",
  false
], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://sys-evm.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",
      "params": [
        "0x1b4",
        false
      ],
      "id": 1
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",
  "params": [
    "0x1b4",
    false
  ],
  "id": 1
}

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://sys-evm.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "eth_getBlockByNumber",
    "params": [
      "0x1b4",
      false
    ],
    "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_getBlockByNumber",
  "params": [
    "0x1b4",
    false
  ],
  "id": 1
}

200

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "number": "0x1b4",
    "hash": "0x9b559a3d7ee67a0a8bb96ec93c93a0db3f9c66a355a3eb9f3f519c0f26a27c79",
    "parentHash": "0x5e8d5f58b0c1be8c3a3d172a41f9f4e35f2f15d5b3347f17a6c11a3aeadf9c10",
    "nonce": "0x0000000000000000",
    "sha3Uncles": "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
    "logsBloom": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "transactionsRoot": "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
    "stateRoot": "0xd7f8974fb5ac78d9e7a6ccfbcc2fdb5d98a9fdb716e0df485b4d39a5a6f85ebd",
    "receiptsRoot": "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",
    "miner": "0x829BD824B016326A401d083B33D092293333A830",
    "difficulty": "0x027f07",
    "totalDifficulty": "0x027f07",
    "extraData": "0x",
    "size": "0x027f07",
    "gasLimit": "0x9f759",
    "gasUsed": "0x9f759",
    "timestamp": "0x54e34e8e",
    "transactions": [
      "0x9f1c04b814a153e1b9f11b60d4e0f9349d07f9251e9b7b60aebb21721c8c07d7"
    ],
    "uncles": [
      "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347"
    ]
  }
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Get Block by Number

Authorizations

Body

Response