Introduction of blockexplorer.com API

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∟Introduction of blockexplorer.com API

This section provides an introduction of Bitcoin blockexplorer.com API.

Bitcoin blockexplorer.com API is a REST API provided by blockexplorer.com for the public to access Bitcoin data blocks and transactions. It offers the following services:

GET /api/block-index/[:height] - Get block hash by height.
GET /api/block/[:hash] - Get block properties by block hash.
GET /api/rawblock/[:hash] - Get block raw data by block hash.
GET /api/tx/[:txid] - Get transaction properties by transaction ID.
GET /api/rawtx/[:txid] - Get transaction raw data by transaction ID.
GET /api/addr-validate/[:addr] - Validate address ID. Returns true if valid, false otherwise.
GET /api/addr/[:addr] - Get address properties, including associated transactions, by address ID.
GET /api/addr/[:addr]/balance - Get balance by address ID.
GET /api/addr/[:addr]/totalReceived - Get total received fund by address ID.
GET /api/addr/[:addr]/totalSent - Get total sent fund by address ID.
GET /api/addr/[:addr]/unconfirmedBalance - Get unconfirmed balance by address ID.
GET /api/addr/[:addr]/utxo - Get Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO), a list of received transaction outputs that have not spent yet, by address ID.
GET /api/addrs/[:addrs]/utxo - Get Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO) by comma separated list of address IDs.
GET /api/addrs/[:addrs]/txs - Get transactions by comma separated list of address IDs.
GET /api/txs/?block=hash - Get transactions of a block by block hash.
GET /api/txs/?address=addr - Get transactions of an address by address ID.
GET /api/status?q=xxx - Get status of Bitcoin network, where xxx can be: getInfo, getBlockCount, getDifficulty, getBestBlockHash, getLastBlockHash.
GET /api/sync - Get synchronization status of the blockexplorer.com Bitcoin server.
POST /api/tx/send - Post a new transaction to Bitcoin network.