ord_getCurrentBlockHeight RPC Method

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

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters

Returns

result

string

Returns the last block height

Request

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

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

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

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

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