# Tools

# Interaction tools

Interact with your Bitcoin nodes using JSON-RPC API (opens new window).

Use curl (opens new window) or Postman (opens new window) to invoke Bitcoin API methods (opens new window).

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

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curl https://nd-123-456-789.p2pify.com/3c6e0b8a9c15224a8228b9a98ca1531d -d '{"method":"getblockchaininfo","params":[],"id":1}'

# Development tools

# Python

Work with Bitcoin from your Python application.

Install bitcoincli (opens new window).
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 = "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 (opens new window):

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}