getblock

POST

https://xec.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns information about the block with the given block hash. Optional verbosity levels determine the level of detail in the response:

0: Returns a string that is serialized, hex-encoded data for the block.
1: Returns a JSON object with basic block details and txids.
2: Returns a JSON object with detailed transaction info.
3: Returns a JSON object with detailed transaction inputs (vin) include prevout information describing the spent outputs.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstringrequired

idstringrequired

methodstringgetblockrequired

paramsArray<string | integer>required

Parameters:

blockhash (string) – The hash of the block
verbosity (integer, optional) – Level of detail: 0, 1, 2 or 3

Show child attributes

One of

string

integer

Response

200OK

Block information retrieved successfully

401Unauthorized

Unauthorized

500Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

getblock

curl -X POST 'https://xec.nownodes.io/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getblock",
    "params": [
      "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
      1
    ]
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://xec.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("getblock", [
  "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
  1
]);
console.log(result);

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

uri = URI('https://xec.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getblock",
  "params": [
    "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
    1
  ],
  "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://xec.nownodes.io/"))
response = w3.provider.make_request("getblock", [
  "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
  1
])
print(response)

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

const result = await client.request({
  method: "getblock",
  params: [
  "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
  1
],
});

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://xec.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: "getblock", params: [
  "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
  1
], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://xec.nownodes.io/', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "1.0",
      "id": "curltest",
      "method": "getblock",
      "params": [
        "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
        1
      ]
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "1.0",
  "id": "curltest",
  "method": "getblock",
  "params": [
    "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
    1
  ]
}

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://xec.nownodes.io/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "curltest",
    "method": "getblock",
    "params": [
      "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
      1
    ]
  }'

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": "getblock",
  "params": [
    "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
    1
  ]
}

{
  "result": {
    "hash": "0000000000000000000a1e63be6bb1d1f4e6d2a345234a4a6b8f86e4f0de3c5a",
    "confirmations": 100,
    "height": 855000,
    "version": 536870912,
    "versionHex": "20000000",
    "merkleroot": "a3e1f3...ff9a",
    "time": 1700000000,
    "mediantime": 1699995000,
    "nonce": 4282073135,
    "bits": "170d1f5d",
    "difficulty": 225983213292.9388,
    "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000230c36f8ff7f4fbee5b6a0c2",
    "previousblockhash": "0000000000000000000c1e1ecf0aef02b1c3d4c44c920afe0aaec7d08d0019e1",
    "nextblockhash": "0000000000000000000735c64b80cd102b8e4d67c2cc09db81fa4451a6f58e3a",
    "tx": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "error": {},
  "id": "curltest"
}

"Unknown API_key"

"Service is unavailable"

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

getblock

Authorizations

Body

Response