Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.06, by Herong Yang
Archived: blockexplorer.com API - Get Transaction Data
This section describes how to get transaction data with blockexplorer.com API.
Bitcoin blockexplorer.com API offers two primary services to get Bitcoin transaction data:
Both services requires you to provide the transaction ID to identify the transaction. Transaction IDs are provided as properties of blocks, and associated with wallet addresses.
You can try Bitcoin blockexplorer.com API to get Bitcoin transaction data with any Web browser. Here is what I did to get information of the transaction that provided by some Bitcoin fund on the Bitcoin test network:
GET https://testnet.blockexplorer.com/api/rawtx /00000000a2424460c992803ed44cfe0c0333e91af04fde9a6a97b468bf1b5f70 {"rawtx":"0200000001aa4bc55d88477cc8921c4769e84882e99fc2961219a796b4c4..."} GET https://testnet.blockexplorer.com/api/tx /e22d5998a43e3e1d81784e6e92988d1c4eae77cd0e439542337e48a786c75e69 {"txid":"e22d5998a43e3e1d81784e6e92988d1c4eae77cd0e439542337e48a786c75e69", "version":2,"locktime":1281294,"vin":[{"txid":"6f6e35c52b7a00c4b496a7191296 c29fe98248e869471c92c87c47885dc54baa","vout":0,"scriptSig":{"asm":"30440220 2ab88452cd720f3e42731a5fd1345e5f2c6888a3d0a0568abf315c46e6b038cf0220394e02c 12aecd9bb2356b4b09980476a4cb347b9e96088f39c995d6d0302fd76[ALL] 0387ab1fa2aedc1dfe5fd8fba9275455b392db1e3b7bad3a8d611fb3cdb789f84d","hex":" 47304402202ab88452cd720f3e42731a5fd1345e5f2c6888a3d0a0568abf315c46e6b038cf0 220394e02c12aecd9bb2356b4b09980476a4cb347b9e96088f39c995d6d0302fd7601210387 ab1fa2aedc1dfe5fd8fba9275455b392db1e3b7bad3a8d611fb3cdb789f84d"},"sequence" :4294967294,"n":0,"addr":"mjQJmi2dKxVNRcMHXsqd9WnBM1X64oz64R","valueSat":85 458403017,"value":854.58403017,"doubleSpentTxID":null}],"vout":[{"value":"8 47.54623264","n":0,"scriptPubKey":{"hex":"76a914c14be92816c5ccfa8c742acba43 ee5382ce22eac88ac","asm":"OP_DUP OP_HASH160 c14be92816c5ccfa8c742acba43ee5382ce22eac OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG","addresses":["my91eT3mdFdo9gfe85wu2Ex35sNRS3uVwJ"],"type":"pub keyhash"},"spentTxId":"6e5deceb8548bd4d1b2995fed73b63ed8aa6114f5f7005c3bbf0 cf9d16312918","spentIndex":0,"spentHeight":1281296},{"value":"7.03666753"," n":1,"scriptPubKey":{"hex":"76a9145e25fd265324c70a1a8bbbeb969614d39f6f66478 8ac","asm":"OP_DUP OP_HASH160 5e25fd265324c70a1a8bbbeb969614d39f6f6647 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG","addresses":["mp6mKbgWE25PyyX63zJ8SRibrKugHMkJDE"],"type":"pub keyhash"},"spentTxId":null,"spentIndex":null,"spentHeight":null}],"blockhas h":"0000000000000db32dee811e7a0c1caefc60fbbbf5db88464877f4c97988ea14","bloc kheight":1281295,"confirmations":2211,"time":1518381726,"blocktime":1518381 726,"valueOut":854.58290017,"size":225,"valueIn":854.58403017,"fees":0.0011 3}
Out of this transaction, I received 7.03666753 BTC!
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Bitcoin Transaction Data Structure
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