Archived: blockexplorer.com API

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∟Archived: blockexplorer.com API - Get Block Data

This section describes how to get block data with blockexplorer.com API.

Bitcoin blockexplorer.com API offers two primary services to get Bitcoin block data:

GET /api/block/[:hash] - Get block properties by block hash.
GET /api/rawblock/[:hash] - Get block raw data by block hash.

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 Bitcoin blockexplorer.com 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://testnet.blockexplorer.com/api/block-index/500

{"blockHash":
 "00000000a2424460c992803ed44cfe0c0333e91af04fde9a6a97b468bf1b5f70"}

GET https://testnet.blockexplorer.com/api/rawblock
   /00000000a2424460c992803ed44cfe0c0333e91af04fde9a6a97b468bf1b5f70

{"rawblock":"01000000272ecd270665dc39e924838516da62f8588270f1e37812aab..."}

GET https://testnet.blockexplorer.com/api/block
   /00000000a2424460c992803ed44cfe0c0333e91af04fde9a6a97b468bf1b5f70

{"hash":"00000000a2424460c992803ed44cfe0c0333e91af04fde9a6a97b468bf1b5f70",
"size":1868,"height":500,"version":1,"merkleroot":"dd3f288510dd3b632940bd3f
b1db162d3ff99b19ddb0c586cfa3ac9a76d42517","tx":["a647d0c4112b4727f3c856782f
f6bbaf099be929b27214a8e0dfedee4383eb68","24b8a4c788b8c805b810438ddd99e569e1
84ff20f4394ac49a6d832e69f57242","c5ffd70c3bc4998465cef55ed6d5d831ab3a550406
423eb611117ed8ee41c278","4692772a73ea834c836915089acf97f2c790380a2b8fd32f82
729da72545d8c5","82d6d88081e3e0eb36730f7f3aedb17228142b9e00a6dbaab4b53b798d
0742c1","fc407d7a3b819daa5cf1ecc2c2a4b103c3782104d1425d170993bd534779a0da",
"95ad3ffb2a9426d6f5f5b97a134d90153ae16c9375f74eb385f481cff2771d77"],"time":
1296746771,"nonce":2325411586,"bits":"1d00ffff","difficulty":1,"chainwork":
"000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001f501f501f5","confirm
ations":1283001,"previousblockhash":"000000008cd4b1bdaa1278e3f1708258f862da
16858324e939dc650627cd2e27","nextblockhash":"00000000c7f50b6dfac8b8a59e11b7
e62f07fdef20597089b9c5d64ebfe6d682","reward":50,"isMainChain":true,"poolInf
o":{}}