eth_getBlockByNumber

Parameters

QUANTITY|TAG - Hexadecimal block number, or the string "earliest", "latest", "safe" or "finalized", as in the default block parameter.

Boolean - If true it returns the full transaction objects, if false only the hashes of the transactions.

Returns

Object - A block object, or null when no block was found:

number: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal of the block number. null when its pending block.
hash: DATA, 32 Bytes - Hash of the block. null when its pending block.
parentHash: DATA, 32 Bytes - Hash of the parent block.
nonce: DATA, 8 Bytes - Hash of the generated proof-of-work. null when its pending block.
sha3Uncles: DATA, 32 Bytes - SHA3 of the uncles data in the block.
logsBloom: DATA, 256 Bytes - The bloom filter for the logs of the block. null when its pending block.
transactionsRoot: DATA, 32 Bytes - The root of the transaction trie of the block.
stateRoot: DATA, 32 Bytes - The root of the final state trie of the block.
receiptsRoot: DATA, 32 Bytes - The root of the receipts trie of the block.
miner: DATA, 20 Bytes - The address of the beneficiary to whom the mining rewards were given.
difficulty: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal of the difficulty for this block.
totalDifficulty: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal of the total difficulty of the chain until this block.
extraData: DATA - The “extra data” field of this block.
size: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal size of this block in bytes.
gasLimit: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal of the maximum gas allowed in this block.
gasUsed: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal of the total used gas by all transactions in this block.
timestamp: QUANTITY - Hexadecimal of the unix timestamp for when the block was collated.
transactions: Array - Array of transaction objects, or 32 Bytes transaction hashes depending on the last given parameter.
uncles: Array - Array of uncle hashes.

Example

Request

curl https://rpc.adiri.tel \
 -X POST \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBlockByNumber","params":["0x608EED", false],"id":1}'

Result

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "hash": "0x5fb9fff1f0f914360abfefb0eac9c7d4fc733007c62c7caf1860d4052776b7d7",
    "parentHash": "0xdaf2bac916ac308e3f5eb077570a24aba29e951ce7306eae52b3e11ba1a7394f",
    "sha3Uncles": "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",
    "miner": "0x3333333333333333333333333333333333333333",
    "stateRoot": "0x9bfa443af733083d3c0eb602112b393683f405cb29b670741b65cb70ea858255",
    "transactionsRoot": "0x47bfe0736bb49e246b2aacec935e632885ec2a6067b11d657637646f391251a7",
    "receiptsRoot": "0x5b6c99267f9131834e759cff4f9d3c16568c844ee89fe6f192c149537648b075",
    "logsBloom": "0x00200000040000000000000280000028000000000000000000000000000000000000000002000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008000000200000000000000000000000000000000400000000020000000010000002000800000000000000000000000010000000400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080000004000000000000100000000000000000000000040200100000000000000000020000000000000000002000000000000200000000000000000000000001000000000000020000080000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000",
    "difficulty": "0x0",
    "number": "0x608eed",
    "gasLimit": "0x1c9c380",
    "gasUsed": "0x1d30a",
    "timestamp": "0x667b285d",
    "extraData": "0x",
    "mixHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "nonce": "0x0000000000000000",
    "baseFeePerGas": "0x7",
    "totalDifficulty": "0x0",
    "uncles": [],
    "transactions": [
      "0x7e7e6d8a61ff36ab337b42b6ed2edf34761f928a110aba857aae97121d35371b"
    ],
    "size": "0x378"
  },
  "id": 1
}