getblockchaininfo RPC Method

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters

Returns

chain

blocks

headers

bestblockhash

bits

target

difficulty

time

mediantime

verificationprogress

initialblockdownload

chainwork

size_on_disk

pruned

warnings

error

Request

curl https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/ \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "getblockchaininfo" }'

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var raw = JSON.stringify({
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getblockchaininfo"
});

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: myHeaders,
  body: raw,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

import requests
import json

url = "https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/"

payload = json.dumps({
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getblockchaininfo"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

require "uri"
require "json"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request.body = JSON.dump({
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getblockchaininfo"
})

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response

{
  "result": {
    "chain": "main",
    "blocks": 894201,
    "headers": 894201,
    "bestblockhash": "000000000000000000016a63eea2cd5e870e45cf49f59bcb26fb53dde180fa59",
    "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
    "time": 1745773480,
    "mediantime": 1745771266,
    "verificationprogress": 0.9999939422604562,
    "initialblockdownload": false,
    "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000beee3f06cb0eab24e9ee9dd4",
    "size_on_disk": 745128900100,
    "pruned": false,
    "warnings": ""
  },
  "error": null,
  "id": null
}

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getblockchaininfo RPC Method

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Parameters

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