Ethereum method - eth_blockNumber

POST

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

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the number of the latest block on the chain in hexadecimal format.

Body

application/json

Returns the number of the latest block on the chain in hexadecimal format.

JSON-RPC request payload.

jsonrpcstringrequired

The JSON-RPC protocol version

methodstringeth_blockNumberrequired

Name of the method being called

paramsarrayrequired

This method does not take parameters; always send an empty array.

idintegerrequired

A unique ID for the request

Response

200OK

HTTP 200 response for eth_blockNumber. The body contains either a successful result or a method-level JSON-RPC error.

400Bad Request

Bad Request. The request body is malformed or contains invalid JSON-RPC parameters.

401Unauthorized

Unauthorized: API key is present but rejected by the NOWNodes gateway.

405Method Not Allowed

Method Not Allowed. Returned by the NOWNodes gateway for malformed or unsupported gateway-level requests.

422Unprocessable Entity

Missing API key. The NOWNodes gateway returns plain text for this error.

500Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error. The gateway or node failed while processing the request.

Ethereum method - eth_blockNumber

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

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

const provider = new JsonRpcProvider("https://xrp-evm.nownodes.io/");
const result = await provider.send("eth_blockNumber", []);
console.log(result);

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

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

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

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

console.log(result);

const endpoint = "https://xrp-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_blockNumber", params: [], id: 1 });
console.log(result);

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

const data = await response.json();

import requests

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

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

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

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x640bbf"
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "error": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "invalid argument 0: invalid parameter for eth_blockNumber"
  }
}

{
  "code": 400,
  "message": "Bad Request"
}

Unknown API_key

Method Not Allowed

Missing API_key

{
  "code": 500,
  "message": "Internal Server Error"
}

Documentation

How to migrate to NOWNodes

Ethereum method - eth_blockNumber

Authorizations

Body

Response