Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.06, by Herong Yang
chain.so API - Get Block Data
This section describes how to get block data with chain.so API.
chain.so API can be used to get Bitcoin block data:
Both services requires you to provide the block hash to identify the bock. If you don't know the block hash, you can get it use the "/api/block-index/[:height]" service.
You can try chain.so API to get Bitcoin block data with any Web browser. Here is what I did to get information of block # 500 on the Bitcoin test network:
GET https://chain.so/api/v2/get_block/BTC/500000 {"status": "success", "data": { "network": "BTC", "blockhash": "00000000000000000024fb37364cbf81fd49cc2d51c09c75c35433c3a1945d04", "block_no": 500000, "mining_difficulty": "1873105475221.611", "time": 1513622125, "confirmations": 214796, "is_orphan": false, "txs": [ "2157b554dcfda405233906e461ee593875ae4b1b97615872db6a25130ecc1dd6", "fe6c48bbfdc025670f4db0340650ba5a50f9307b091d9aaa19aa44291961c69f", "...", "c78c614d47c0facd1162d7c40bbc6a2ad3d96aacd4afdfef1453069b1a5b8345" ], "merkleroot": "31951c69428a95a46b517ffb0de12fec1bd0b2392aec07b64573e03ded31621f", "previous_blockhash": "0000000000000000007962066dcd6675830883516bcf40047d42740a85eb2919", "next_blockhash": "0000000000000000005c9959b3216f8640f94ec96edea69fe12ad7dee8b74e92", "size": 1048581 } }
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Bitcoin Transaction Data Structure
►chain.so API - Get Block Data
chain.so API - Get Transaction Data
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