Express API for querying data from your Bitcoin node to build web applications.
Sends HTTP requests to Bitcoin Core node using various RPC commands.
A full tutorial for this API can be found here.
To use the API first make sure to install Node.js (here) and Bitcoin Core here (here).
Clone this repo and add a .env file at the root level of your project. Replace the bitcoinuser and bitcoinpassword values with those in your Bitcoin configuration file (in Bitcoin Core under Settings > Options > Open Configuration File ).
RPC_USER=bitcoinuser
RPC_PASSWORD=bitcoinpassword
If they haven't yet been set, add the following entries to your bitcoin.conf and change both files (restarting bitcoin core) :
rpcuser=bitcoinuser
rpcpassword=bitcoinpassword
Next run
npm install
then
npm run server
to start the server.
View a test endpoint in the browser at 'localhost:4444/api/getblockchaininfo'
- getblockcount
- getbestblockhash
- getconnectioncount
- getdifficulty
- getblockchaininfo
- getmininginfo
- getpeerinfo
- getrawmempool
- getblockhash
- getblock
- getrawtransaction
- decoderawtransaction