How to get transaction info in Real-Time ?

Ned Kelly

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There are several subtleties with an answer to you question.

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 04, 2016, 10:12:41 AM

When I say "In real time" what I mean is , once the transaction happens and gets added to the Blockchain.

The block on the top of blockchain could be an orphan block. As the result, some transactions can become absent from blockchain latter.

If it's not a concern and you can tolerate some such transactions. You can get transactions even faster.
Use

Code:

getrawmempool

in Bitcoin core client. However, it's possible that not all network transactions will be in your memory pool.
Also, some of those transactions could be refused by miners later. For example, low or zero fee.

belcher

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Depends what you're trying to actually do.

The best way is probably to run a full node and configure -blocknotify to alert your script when a new block arrives.

OmegaStarScream

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Quote from: achow101 on July 04, 2016, 11:02:39 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 04, 2016, 10:58:18 AM

Oh , I see , It make sense as well ! Do you know any API that do that ? I suppose Blockchain don't?
I just googled ,It seems like they do have it : https://blockchain.info/api/api_websocket , thanks for your help mate ! I appreciate it!

blocktrail has one: https://www.blocktrail.com/api/docs#api_webhooks
so does blockcypher: http://dev.blockcypher.com/#events-and-hooks

Yes I found the one of BlockTrail , It's sad that most of them don't support C# as should be (no libraries etc... If there is any there are most likely out dated).
Anyway , thank you for your help mate ! I really appreciate it .

achow101

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 04, 2016, 10:58:18 AM

Oh , I see , It make sense as well ! Do you know any API that do that ? I suppose Blockchain don't?
I just googled ,It seems like they do have it : https://blockchain.info/api/api_websocket , thanks for your help mate ! I appreciate it!

blocktrail has one: https://www.blocktrail.com/api/docs#api_webhooks
so does blockcypher: http://dev.blockcypher.com/#events-and-hooks

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Quote from: achow101 on July 04, 2016, 10:51:42 AM

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 04, 2016, 10:32:26 AM

Quote from: achow101 on July 04, 2016, 10:26:20 AM

Wallets listen to other nodes. When a block is added to the blockchain, it is broadcast from one node to all of its peers. When a wallet receives that block, it checks the transactions in the block to see if it includes a transaction that it is tracking. If it does, then it updates its database. Then the wallet, if it is a node, broadcasts the block to all of its peers.

So I suppose it's impossible to make a real time application If I'm using an API of Blockchain or BlockTrail , correct ?
I should run Bitcoind instead ? Since if I use an API I will have limited requests per x minutes and It's impossible to get in real time.

No, not necessarily. Some APIs have streaming sockets. This means that your application connects to the API and when the API learns of a block, it broadcasts it to your application as long as the connection remains open. This will be in real time.

Oh , I see , It make sense as well ! Do you know any API that do that ? I suppose Blockchain don't?
I just googled ,It seems like they do have it : https://blockchain.info/api/api_websocket , thanks for your help mate ! I appreciate it!

achow101

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on July 04, 2016, 10:32:26 AM

Quote from: achow101 on July 04, 2016, 10:26:20 AM

Wallets listen to other nodes. When a block is added to the blockchain, it is broadcast from one node to all of its peers. When a wallet receives that block, it checks the transactions in the block to see if it includes a transaction that it is tracking. If it does, then it updates its database. Then the wallet, if it is a node, broadcasts the block to all of its peers.

So I suppose it's impossible to make a real time application If I'm using an API of Blockchain or BlockTrail , correct ?
I should run Bitcoind instead ? Since if I use an API I will have limited requests per x minutes and It's impossible to get in real time.

No, not necessarily. Some APIs have streaming sockets. This means that your application connects to the API and when the API learns of a block, it broadcasts it to your application as long as the connection remains open. This will be in real time.

amaclin

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Start from this example
https://github.com/sebicas/bitcoin-sniffer

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Quote from: achow101 on July 04, 2016, 10:26:20 AM

Wallets listen to other nodes. When a block is added to the blockchain, it is broadcast from one node to all of its peers. When a wallet receives that block, it checks the transactions in the block to see if it includes a transaction that it is tracking. If it does, then it updates its database. Then the wallet, if it is a node, broadcasts the block to all of its peers.

So I suppose it's impossible to make a real time application If I'm using an API of Blockchain or BlockTrail , correct ?
I should run Bitcoind instead ? Since if I use an API I will have limited requests per x minutes and It's impossible to get in real time.

unamis76

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I remember there were tools for this. Like this one. Never tried it tho.

achow101

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Wallets listen to other nodes. When a block is added to the blockchain, it is broadcast from one node to all of its peers. When a wallet receives that block, it checks the transactions in the block to see if it includes a transaction that it is tracking. If it does, then it updates its database. Then the wallet, if it is a node, broadcasts the block to all of its peers.

OmegaStarScream

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I want to know how it's possible to get a transaction info in real time ?

When I say "In real time" what I mean is , once the transaction happens and gets added to the Blockchain.

How wallets are doing it ? are they checking the blockchain each x seconds or something like that ? If you didn't understand due to my poor english or something , please let me know so I explain more.

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