# Tools

# Interaction tools

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:

curl https://user-name:[email protected] -d '{"method":"getblockchaininfo","params":[],"id":1}'

# Development tools

# Python

Work with Bitcoin from your Python application.

Install bitcoincli.
Configure the client to use host and port of the node RPC endpoint, the corresponding RPC username, and password:

from bitcoincli import Bitcoin

host = "nd-123-456-789.p2pify.com"
port = "80"
username = "user-name"
password = "pass-word-pass-word-pass-word"

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

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}