Bitcoin tooling

Connect to your Chainstack Bitcoin node using JSON-RPC API with curl or Postman, and set up Bitcoin Core for direct blockchain interaction.

Get started with a reliable Bitcoin RPC endpoint to use the tools below.

JSON-RPC API

Interact with your Bitcoin nodes using JSON-RPC API.

Use curl or Postman to invoke Bitcoin API methods.

Example below demonstrates how to get basic network information from your Bitcoin node HTTPS endpoint:

cURL

curl YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT -d '{"method":"getblockchaininfo","params":[],"id":1}'

where YOUR_CHAINSTACK_ENDPOINT is your node HTTPS endpoint protected either with the key or password

Python

Work with Bitcoin from your Python application.

1. Install bitcoincli.

2. Configure the client to use host and port of the node HTTPS endpoint, the corresponding node username, and password:

   Python

   from bitcoincli import Bitcoin
   
   host = "nd-123-456-789.p2pify.com"
   port = "443"
   username = "user-name"
   password = "pass-word-pass-word-pass-word"
   
   bitcoin = Bitcoin(username, password, host, port)
   

3. Invoke any methods from the Bitcoin API specification:

   Python

   info = bitcoin.getblockchaininfo()
   print(info)
   

The example code above should output basic network information:

Python

{u'pruned': False, u'blocks': 603580, u'chainwork': u'00000000000000000000000000000000000000000a0baf330c67a89653c67005', u'chain': u'main', u'difficulty': 12720005267390.51, u'bip9_softforks': {u'csv': {u'status': u'active', u'since': 419328, u'timeout': 1493596800, u'startTime': 1462060800}, u'segwit': {u'status': u'active', u'since': 481824, u'timeout': 1510704000, u'startTime': 1479168000}}, u'warnings': u'', u'softforks': [{u'version': 2, u'id': u'bip34', u'reject': {u'status': True}}, {u'version': 3, u'id': u'bip66', u'reject': {u'status': True}}, {u'version': 4, u'id': u'bip65', u'reject': {u'status': True}}], u'initialblockdownload': False, u'headers': 603580, u'mediantime': 1573647950, u'verificationprogress': 0.9999919488385801, u'bestblockhash': u'000000000000000000068b536474a44f9e0a0a0ab6be75d9afdaddc8c513bcea', u'size_on_disk': 282597514457}