eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber RPC Method

Returns the number of uncles for the block matching the given block number. The API credit value for this method is 1.

Updated on

Jun 9, 2023

eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber RPC Method

Parameters

blockNumber

string

REQUIRED

The integer of a block number encoded in hexadecimal format starting with 0x

Returns

uncles

The integer value of the number of uncles in the block encoded as hexadecimal

Request

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curl https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/ \
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  -X POST \
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  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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  --data '{"method":"eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber","params":["0xc5043f"],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
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