getblockchaininfo RPC Method

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters

Returns

result

object

chain

string

blocks

integer

headers

integer

bestblockhash

string

difficulty

number

mediantime

integer

verificationprogress

number

initialblockdownload

boolean

chainwork

string

size_on_disk

integer

pruned

boolean

warnings

string

error

string

integer

Request

curl https://docs-demo.bch-mainnet.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.bch-mainnet.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.bch-mainnet.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.bch-mainnet.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": 913618,
    "headers": 913618,
    "bestblockhash": "0000000000000000007f957da89f8b9d3e932dcafd844c7659759ea647212591",
    "difficulty": 618261255341.6232,
    "mediantime": 1756376985,
    "verificationprogress": 0.9999997736477665,
    "initialblockdownload": false,
    "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000027cd46c0a2433843ac32450",
    "size_on_disk": 239984075171,
    "pruned": false,
    "warnings": ""
  },
  "error": null,
  "id": 1
}

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getblockchaininfo RPC Method

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Parameters

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