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blockbook-client
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Typescript library for interacting with Trezor's blockbook API.
npm i blockbook-client
import { Blockbook } from 'blockbook-client'
const blockbook = new Blockbook({
nodes: ['btc1.trezor.io', 'btc2.trezor.io'],
})
// Example methods using http
await blockbook.getStatus()
await blockbook.getBlockHash(100000) // -> '000000000003ba27aa200b1cecaad478d2b00432346c3f1f3986da1afd33e506'
await blockbook.getTx('b62aa5203fa27495ea431b91a5090aab741c8c39cc03ec4c1f4f4e157507595f')
await blockbook.getTxSpecific('b62aa5203fa27495ea431b91a5090aab741c8c39cc03ec4c1f4f4e157507595f')
await blockbook.getAddressDetails('193P6LtvS4nCnkDvM9uXn1gsSRqh4aDAz7')
await blockbook.getXpubDetails('xpub661MyMwAqRbcFtXgS5sYJABqqG9YLmC4Q1Rdap9gSE8NqtwybGhePY2gZ29ESFjqJoCu1Rupje8YtGqsefD265TMg7usUDFdp6W1EGMcet8', { details: 'txids' })
await blockbook.getUtxosForAddress('193P6LtvS4nCnkDvM9uXn1gsSRqh4aDAz7')
await blockbook.getUtxosForXpub('xpub661MyMwAqRbcFtXgS5sYJABqqG9YLmC4Q1Rdap9gSE8NqtwybGhePY2gZ29ESFjqJoCu1Rupje8YtGqsefD265TMg7usUDFdp6W1EGMcet8', { confirmed: true })
await blockbook.getBlock(100000)
await blockbook.sendTx('<hex tx data>')
// To use websockets
await blockbook.connect()
await blockbook.subscribeNewBlock(({ height, hash }) => console.log('new block', height, hash))
await blockbook.subscribeAddresses(['193P6LtvS4nCnkDvM9uXn1gsSRqh4aDAz7'], ({ address, tx }) => console.log('new tx for address', address, tx))
await blockbook.unsubscribeNewBlock()
await blockbook.unsubscribeAddresses()
await blockbook.disconnect()
// For more specific typings of bitcoin-like or ethereum-like coins use one of
// the following classes instead. The `Blockbook` class will work with any coin
// but returns more optional fields than the following.
import { BlockbookBitcoin, BlockbookEthereum } from 'blockbook-client'
const { Blockbook } = require('blockbook-client')
const blockbook = new Blockbook({
nodes: ['btc1.trezor.io', 'btc2.trezor.io'],
disableTypeValidation: true, // Turns off runtime type validation
})
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Client for interacting with Trezor's blockbook API
The npm package blockbook-client receives a total of 392 weekly downloads. As such, blockbook-client popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that blockbook-client demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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