ord_getBlockInfo RPC Method - Ordinals & Runes API

Please note that this method requires the Ordinals & Runes API add-on enabled on your QuickNode endpoint.

Parameters

blockHeight

string

REQUIRED

Returns

average_fee

integer

average_fee_rate

integer

bits

integer

chainwork

string

confirmations

integer

difficulty

number

hash

string

height

integer

max_fee

integer

max_fee_rate

integer

max_tx_size

integer

median_fee

integer

median_time

integer

merkle_root

string

min_fee

integer

min_fee_rate

integer

next_block

string

nonce

integer

previous_block

string

subsidy

integer

target

string

timestamp

integer

total_fee

integer

total_size

integer

total_weight

integer

transaction_count

integer

version

integer

Request

curl --location  'https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "method": "ord_getBlockInfo",
    "params": [
        843263
    ],
    "id": 1,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0"
}'

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

const raw = JSON.stringify({
  "method": "ord_getBlockInfo",
  "params": [
    843263
  ],
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
});

const 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.error(error));

import requests
import json

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

payload = json.dumps({
  "method": "ord_getBlockInfo",
  "params": [
    843263
  ],
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
})
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/")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port);
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request.body = JSON.dump({
  "method": "ord_getBlockInfo",
  "params": [
    843263
  ],
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
})

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

Response

{
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "average_fee": 4224,
    "average_fee_rate": 16,
    "bits": 386097818,
    "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000792afc9194d4373f17067780",
    "confirmations": 50985,
    "difficulty": 83148355189239.77,
    "hash": "00000000000000000003086c5fc47fbb3a6bc009a6f67cb33fc8ade01d80f2ab",
    "height": 843263,
    "max_fee": 983011,
    "max_fee_rate": 402,
    "max_tx_size": 188180,
    "median_fee": 1848,
    "median_time": 1715587887,
    "merkle_root": "694aee821f09f09d7d6922d8d4b63647fd2837d9cdc9946a0fb1643da5a7d7b6",
    "min_fee": 893,
    "min_fee_rate": 5,
    "next_block": "0000000000000000000101209b4ab3570862dc3fac8633eb62938a541c55a2ff",
    "nonce": 895835225,
    "previous_block": "000000000000000000015f2dbc04ed10274690e78d9be02e509373097b4a12ca",
    "subsidy": 312500000,
    "target": "00000000000000000003629a0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "timestamp": 1715592413,
    "total_fee": 16735182,
    "total_size": 1660529,
    "total_weight": 3991667,
    "transaction_count": 3962,
    "version": 704643072
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
}

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ord_getBlockInfo RPC Method - Ordinals & Runes API

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