A python 3 wrapper and CLI for blockstream.info's Bitcoin block explorer API
Written in Python 3
Docs: https://github.com/psqnt/blockstream/blob/master/docs.md
Block explorer: https://blockstream.info
API Reference: https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora/blob/master/API.md
pip install blockstream
if not in a python3 virtualenv make sure to use python3
pip3 install blockstream
This will install a command line tool called bsapi or
you can import into a python project
Usage: bsapi [OPTIONS] [INFILE] [OUTFILE] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
-v, --verbose
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
request Makes a request to blockstream info api and echos response
from blockstream import blockexplorer
# get transaction by id
tx_id = '56a5b477182cddb6edb460b39135a3dc785eaf7ea88a572052a761d6983e26a2'
tx = blockexplorer.get_transaction(tx_id)
# get address data
address = '3ADPkym6mQ2HyP7uASh5g3VYauhCWZpczF'
addr_info = blockexplorer.get_address(address)Reference examples.py to see each method in use
echo -n "000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f" | bsapi - - request --param_type transaction
echo -n "000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f" | bsapi - - request --param_type hash
{
"id": "000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",
"height": 0,
"version": 1,
"timestamp": 1231006505,
"tx_count": 1,
"size": 285,
"weight": 816,
"merkle_root": "4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b",
"previous_block_hash": null,
"nonce": 2083236893,
"bits": 486604799
}
bsapi - - request 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f --param_type hash
{
"id": "000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",
"height": 0,
"version": 1,
"timestamp": 1231006505,
"tx_count": 1,
"size": 285,
"weight": 816,
"merkle_root": "4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b",
"previous_block_hash": null,
"nonce": 2083236893,
"bits": 486604799
}
the scripthash endpoint seems to be broken, however you can get data about a scripthash address by calling the address endpoint. I have decided to remove the functions to hit the scripthash endpoint for now.
Also the broadcast transaction api endpoint has not been implemented yet
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