Get current sharding structure

POST

https://zil.nownodes.io/

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Returns the current sharding structure of the Zilliqa network including shards and DS committee members.

Body

application/json

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC version

methodstringrequired

Method name

idintegerrequired

Request ID

paramsArray<string | integer | object | boolean>required

Parameters for the method (empty if none)

Show child attributes

One of

string

integer

object

boolean

Response

200OK

Successfully retrieved sharding structure

400Bad Request

Invalid request

500Internal Server Error

Internal server error

Get current sharding structure

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

import { JsonRpcProvider } from "ethers";

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

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

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

import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";

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

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

console.log(result);

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

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

const data = await response.json();

import requests

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

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

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

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

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": "GetShardingStructure",
  "id": 1,
  "params": []
}

200

{
  "id": "1",
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "shards": [
      {
        "shardID": 0,
        "nodes": [
          {
            "PubKey": "02f86a2c3c1d6f88456c4a...",
            "IP": "192.168.1.100",
            "Port": "33133"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "dsCommittee": [
      {
        "PubKey": "02f86a2c3c1d6f88456c4a...",
        "IP": "192.168.1.101",
        "Port": "33134"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Documentation

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Get current sharding structure

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