Get alternative chains

POST

https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Display alternative chains seen by the node.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstring

idstring

methodstring

Response

200OK

Alternative chains retrieved successfully

400Bad Request

Bad Request - missing or invalid parameters

403Forbidden

Forbidden

404Not Found

Not Found

500Internal Server Error

Internal server error

Get alternative chains

curl -X POST 'https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "0",
    "method": "get_alternate_chains"
  }'

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc");
const result = await provider.send("get_alternate_chains", []);
console.log(result);

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

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

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

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

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc";
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: "get_alternate_chains", params: [], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "id": "0",
      "method": "get_alternate_chains"
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "0",
  "method": "get_alternate_chains"
}

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": "0",
    "method": "get_alternate_chains"
  }'

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": "0",
  "method": "get_alternate_chains"
}

{
  "id": "0",
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "chains": [
      {
        "block_hash": "dd4998cfe92a959a5a0e4ed72432cf23d7dfc4179cbea871ee2a705d71fb5e25",
        "block_hashes": [
          "dd4998cfe92a959a5a0e4ed72432cf23d7dfc4179cbea871ee2a705d71fb5e25"
        ],
        "difficulty": 86227995333492080,
        "difficulty_top64": 0,
        "height": 2286736,
        "length": 1,
        "main_chain_parent_block": "6da3d2dc86ccc9353d19fc6b05083125f4ca7d22540d938010462f197a3fe590",
        "wide_difficulty": "0x13257e7a78bfd6f"
      }
    ],
    "status": "OK",
    "untrusted": false
  }
}

{
  "error": "Invalid request parameters"
}

Insufficient permissions

{
  "error": "Alternate chains not found"
}

{
  "error": "Internal server error"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Get alternative chains

Authorizations

Body

Response