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JSON-RPC API

Interact with your Bitcoin nodes using JSON-RPC API.

Use curl or Postman to invoke Bitcoin API methods.

Example below demonstrates how to get basic network information from your Bitcoin node HTTPS endpoint:

curl YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT -d '{"method":"getblockchaininfo","params":[],"id":1}'

where YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT is your node HTTPS endpoint protected either with the key or password

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Python

Work with Bitcoin from your Python application.

  1. Install bitcoincli.

  2. Configure the client to use host and port of the node HTTPS endpoint, the corresponding node username, and password:

    from bitcoincli import Bitcoin

host = "nd-123-456-789.p2pify.com"
port = "443"
username = "user-name"
password = "pass-word-pass-word-pass-word"

bitcoin = Bitcoin(username, password, host, port)

  3. Invoke any methods from the Bitcoin API specification:

    info = bitcoin.getblockchaininfo()
print(info)

The example code above should output basic network information:

{u'pruned': False, u'blocks': 603580, u'chainwork': u'00000000000000000000000000000000000000000a0baf330c67a89653c67005', u'chain': u'main', u'difficulty': 12720005267390.51, u'bip9_softforks': {u'csv': {u'status': u'active', u'since': 419328, u'timeout': 1493596800, u'startTime': 1462060800}, u'segwit': {u'status': u'active', u'since': 481824, u'timeout': 1510704000, u'startTime': 1479168000}}, u'warnings': u'', u'softforks': [{u'version': 2, u'id': u'bip34', u'reject': {u'status': True}}, {u'version': 3, u'id': u'bip66', u'reject': {u'status': True}}, {u'version': 4, u'id': u'bip65', u'reject': {u'status': True}}], u'initialblockdownload': False, u'headers': 603580, u'mediantime': 1573647950, u'verificationprogress': 0.9999919488385801, u'bestblockhash': u'000000000000000000068b536474a44f9e0a0a0ab6be75d9afdaddc8c513bcea', u'size_on_disk': 282597514457}