getchaintips RPC Method

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters

Returns

height

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hash

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branchlen

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status

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invalid

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headers-only

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valid-headers

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valid-fork

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active

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error

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Request

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

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

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

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": "getchaintips"
})
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": "getchaintips"
})

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

Response

{
  "result": [
    {
      "height": 894201,
      "hash": "000000000000000000016a63eea2cd5e870e45cf49f59bcb26fb53dde180fa59",
      "branchlen": 0,
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "height": 893402,
      "hash": "00000000000000000001eca3c8283357af739fdfbde6442c6624b8ef8ae93663",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
      "height": 892514,
      "hash": "0000000000000000000138347cf98316d6ef64e7b02a53639a03807dde6b3a7d",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
      "height": 888946,
      "hash": "000000000000000000005f83b550365489acdfd33dfe991dd953b01cfc17bab3",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
      "height": 885796,
      "hash": "00000000000000000001509b28e96d4eba8508a8885e78dc83b60cacdeb985ea",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
      "height": 883335,
      "hash": "00000000000000000000d714fe269dd411cbf80b8971dafbd9edfedca401adc6",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "headers-only"
    },
    {
      "height": 883183,
      "hash": "00000000000000000002585e763064d66b3f2554ef9dfb8603a2251ae16439e2",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-fork"
    },
    {
      "height": 881953,
      "hash": "000000000000000000007faee36bc09b2ab33e348e5991858f1ad938fb88a570",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
      "height": 881780,
      "hash": "00000000000000000002745046f0bb6fab9fd306b5df8afea25e5a4cc80f9282",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-fork"
    },
    {
      "height": 878195,
      "hash": "0000000000000000000118ba6ca352890cb4c6a87f7370ee2fafa73985fdcbea",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "headers-only"
    },
    {
      "height": 877991,
      "hash": "000000000000000000009d1b54066c961d1afe5eba8aeb0e7b2c512f3752d985",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "headers-only"
    },
    {
      "height": 877991,
      "hash": "000000000000000000012a98597fb5e713fd7d343d423be6f5df6f5ceb3c0729",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "headers-only"
    },
    {
      "height": 877770,
      "hash": "00000000000000000000451bdfb9fbd0b836ee62da952e68bbb7c5a3ceb191df",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-fork"
    },
    {
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      "hash": "0000000000000000000005eee6163885d621cd0b4e999630d00433b905ac264e",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
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      "hash": "00000000000000000002829ecf6967a9729412446dd571de06e02007a3cdc451",
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      "status": "valid-fork"
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      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
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      "hash": "00000000000000000000ee7b3b7a868e091f9ec406f389580740b8618abfb48b",
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      "status": "valid-headers"
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    {
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      "hash": "0000000000000000000114d1f1c1ddf51e83d6c0d660b2c1fa9f9a345f36624a",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-headers"
    },
    {
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      "hash": "00000000000000000002648ba35429c4e46e38d5261331bbddd7244baf94d515",
      "branchlen": 1,
      "status": "valid-fork"
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  "id": null
}

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