Retrieve general information about the node and network

POST

https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns general info about the state of your Monero node and the network.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstring

idstring

methodstring

Response

200OK

Node information

400Bad Request

Bad Request - missing or invalid parameters

403Forbidden

Forbidden

500Internal Server Error

Internal server error

Retrieve general information about the node and network

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

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://xmr.nownodes.io/json_rpc");
const result = await provider.send("get_info", []);
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_info",
  "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_info", [])
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_info",
  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_info", 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_info"
    }),
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

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

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_info"
  }'

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_info"
}

{
  "id": "0",
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "adjusted_time": 1612090533,
    "alt_blocks_count": 2,
    "block_size_limit": 600000,
    "block_size_median": 300000,
    "block_weight_limit": 600000,
    "block_weight_median": 300000,
    "bootstrap_daemon_address": "",
    "busy_syncing": false,
    "credits": 0,
    "cumulative_difficulty": 86168732847545380,
    "cumulative_difficulty_top64": 0,
    "database_size": 34329849856,
    "difficulty": 225889137349,
    "difficulty_top64": 0,
    "free_space": 10795802624,
    "grey_peerlist_size": 4999,
    "height": 2286472,
    "height_without_bootstrap": 2286472,
    "incoming_connections_count": 85,
    "mainnet": true,
    "nettype": "mainnet",
    "offline": false,
    "outgoing_connections_count": 16,
    "rpc_connections_count": 1,
    "stagenet": false,
    "start_time": 1611915662,
    "status": "OK",
    "synchronized": true,
    "target": 120,
    "target_height": 2286464,
    "testnet": false,
    "top_block_hash": "b92720d8315b96e32020d04e14a0c54cc13e057d4a5beb4501be490d306fdd8f",
    "top_hash": "",
    "tx_count": 11239803,
    "tx_pool_size": 21,
    "untrusted": false,
    "update_available": false,
    "version": "0.17.1.9-release",
    "was_bootstrap_ever_used": false,
    "white_peerlist_size": 1000,
    "wide_cumulative_difficulty": "0x1322201881f9c18",
    "wide_difficulty": "0x34980ab2c5"
  }
}

{
  "error": "Invalid request parameters"
}

Insufficient permissions

{
  "error": "Internal server error"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Retrieve general information about the node and network

Authorizations

Body

Response