Get Suggested Gas Price

POST

https://unichain.nownodes.io/jsonrpc

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the current gas price in wei as a hexadecimal string. This value is a node estimate based on recent blocks and mempool activity.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC version

methodstringrequired

JSON-RPC method name

paramsarrayrequired

This method takes an empty array.

idintegerrequired

Request identifier

Response

200OK

Suggested gas price in wei

Get Suggested Gas Price

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

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://unichain.nownodes.io/jsonrpc");
const result = await provider.send("eth_gasPrice", []);
console.log(result);

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

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

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

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

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://unichain.nownodes.io/jsonrpc";
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_gasPrice", params: [], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

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

const data = await response.json();

import requests

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

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

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

200

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x09184e72a000"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Get Suggested Gas Price

Authorizations

Body

Response