The 'trace_block' gets trace information about all the transactions in a given block. This can be useful for debugging purposes or for analyzing the behavior of a blockchain

trace_block

Overview

The "trace_block" gets trace information about all the transactions in a given block. This can be useful for debugging purposes or for analyzing the behavior of a blockchain

Request

shell

curl --request POST \
  --url https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io \
  --header 'accept: application/json' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-CoinAPI-Key: 73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY' \
  --data '
  {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "trace_block",
    "stop": [],
    "id":1,
    "params": ["0x6"]
  }
  '

csharp

using RestSharp; {

var options = new RestClientOptions("https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io");
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("");
request.AddHeader("accept", "application/json","X-CoinAPI-Key: 73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY");
request.AddJsonBody("{\"id\":1,\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"trace_block\"}", false);
var response = await client.PostAsync(request);

Console.WriteLine("{0}", response.Content); }

php

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'id' => 1,
    'jsonrpc' => '2.0',
    'method' => 'trace_block'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "accept: application/json",
    "content-type: application/json",
    "X-CoinAPI-Key": "73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
?>

python

import requests

url = "https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io"

payload = {
    "id": 1,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "trace_block"
}
headers = {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "X-CoinAPI-Key" : "73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

javascript

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {accept: 'application/json', 'content-type': 'application/json', 'X-CoinAPI-Key': '73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY'},
  body: JSON.stringify({id: 1, jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'trace_block'})
};

fetch('https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\"id\":1,\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"trace_block\"}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("accept", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")
  req.Header.Add("X-CoinAPI-Key", "73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request["X-CoinAPI-Key"] = '73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY'
request.body = "{\"id\":1,\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"trace_block\"}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

java

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\"id\":1,\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"trace_block\"}");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://ethereum-mainnet-geth-archive.node.coinapi.io")
  .post(body)
  .addHeader("accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("content-type", "application/json")
  .addHeader("X-CoinAPI-Key", "73034021-THIS-IS-SAMPLE-KEY")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Request Parameters

Response

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "result": [
        {
            "action": {
                "author": "0x0193d941b50d91be6567c7ee1c0fe7af498b4137",
                "rewardType": "block",
                "value": "0x4563918244f40000"
            },
            "blockHash": "0x1f1aed8e3694a067496c248e61879cda99b0709a1dfbacd0b693750df06b326e",
            "blockNumber": 6,
            "result": null,
            "subtraces": 0,
            "traceAddress": [],
            "type": "reward"
        }
    ]
}

Errors

Invalid Request: This error is returned if the request format is incorrect.
Internal Error: This error is returned if there's a server-side issue processing the request.

Rate Limits

Please note that there are rate limits applied to the API to ensure fair usage. Free-tier users are limited to 100 requests per day, while premium users can make up to 1000 or more requests per day.

Support

If you encounter any issues or have further questions regarding the trace_block method, please contact our support team at [email protected].

Service Status GitHub SDK

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