List of Bitcoin blockchain APIs - page 4.

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Quote from: newIndia on February 01, 2015, 06:51:42 PM

Try to list those especially offering bitcoin send/receive API. AFAIK none still offers it as good as blockchain.info, though it is difficult to offer a send API for those, who do not have a wallet service.

I am not particularly interested in a high-level wallet API (as I prefer to build transactions myself),
but I can see that it's very interesting for others so I'll add a section for it.

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 07:46:07 AM

Insight API (self hosted open-source, by BitPay)

One can self-host insight which is nifty, but also not clear that you know but there are at least 3 instances of insight available:
- https://insight.bitpay.com/ e.g. https://insight.bitpay.com/api/status?q=getBestBlockHash
- https://search.bitaccess.ca/ e.g. https://search.bitaccess.ca/api/status?q=getInfo
- https://chain.localbitcoins.com/ e.g. https://chain.localbitcoins.com/api/block/000000000000000006bade384570a3d3209e7358a93630df4add40911a42f5da

Description of the api: https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 08:30:18 AM

Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 08:21:50 AM

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for (but with search disabled...)

Actually, after a second glance, not really.

The focus of the other thread is block explorers, not the discussions of APIs.
So it seems that most people report their favorite block explorer for occasional manual use,
rather programmatically usable APIs that support a bigger feature set. Most of the sites listed
don't have an API.

Try to list those especially offering bitcoin send/receive API. AFAIK none still offers it as good as blockchain.info, though it is difficult to offer a send API for those, who do not have a wallet service.

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There also used to be https://plugchain.com/ by CEX.io, but it seems to be offline. Does anyone know what happened to it?

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Does anyone know "Gem"? https://gem.co/

Just found it, but they are in closed beta, so I have no idea what they actually offer Huh

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Quote from: shorena on February 01, 2015, 06:00:22 PM

Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 05:39:52 PM

Quote from: brituspol on February 01, 2015, 05:34:36 PM

Yes it is. blockchain API still leads.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. "still leads" = is still the best? Neither is that really related to my statement that the other thread focuses on user-oriented block explorers, nor is it true...

blocktrail has an API and I personally never had any problems with it. I should clarify though that I did not use their API for anything serious.

Nice, thanks, blocktrail is one I didn't know about. I'll update the thread.

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 05:39:52 PM

Quote from: brituspol on February 01, 2015, 05:34:36 PM

Yes it is. blockchain API still leads.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. "still leads" = is still the best? Neither is that really related to my statement that the other thread focuses on user-oriented block explorers, nor is it true...

blocktrail has an API and I personally never had any problems with it. I should clarify though that I did not use their API for anything serious.

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Quote from: brituspol on February 01, 2015, 05:34:36 PM

Yes it is. blockchain API still leads.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. "still leads" = is still the best? Neither is that really related to my statement that the other thread focuses on user-oriented block explorers, nor is it true...

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 08:30:18 AM

Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 08:21:50 AM

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for (but with search disabled...)

Actually, after a second glance, not really.

The focus of the other thread is block explorers, not the discussions of APIs.
So it seems that most people report their favorite block explorer for occasional manual use,
rather programmatically usable APIs that support a bigger feature set. Most of the sites listed
don't have an API.

Yes it is. blockchain API still leads.

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 08:21:50 AM

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for (but with search disabled...)

Actually, after a second glance, not really.

The focus of the other thread is block explorers, not the discussions of APIs.
So it seems that most people report their favorite block explorer for occasional manual use,
rather programmatically usable APIs that support a bigger feature set. Most of the sites listed
don't have an API.

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 01, 2015, 08:21:50 AM

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for (but with search disabled...)

Search is now enabled on this forum.

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Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for (but with search disabled...)

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You might find this post useful...

Quote from: 100bitcoin on June 02, 2014, 03:59:08 PM

When you check an address balance or a transaction status online, which block explorer do you use ? If you run a service depending on a third party API, which block explorer's API you rely upon ?

Update: I'm listing out the outcome of this thread here...

1. https://blockchain.info/

2. https://blockr.io/

3. https://blockexplorer.com/

4. https://www.biteasy.com/

5. https://chain.so/btc

6. https://helloblock.io/

7. http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer

8. https://bkchain.org/btc

9. http://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/

10. http://www.blocktrail.com

11. http://explorer.chain.com/

If you know more, please add in this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/which-block-explorer-do-you-use-636463

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Hello,

I am compiling a list of bitcoin APIs. Note that I am not interested in collecting block explorer web interfaces, but APIs for developers.

"Data" APIs

Requirements:

some sort of HTTP API (eg, REST)
query the blockchain: blocks and transactions
p2p network: unconfirmed transactions, push transactions
query addresses: transactions, balances, unspents

(so basically everything one needs for building a web wallet)

Hosted:

blockchain.info's blockchain data API [websockets]
chain.com [webhooks, websockets]
Blockstrap (as part of their app platform)
Blockcypher [webhooks, websockets]
Toshi by Coinbase [websockets]
Blocktrail [webhooks, multisig]
blockr [websockets]
smartbit [websockets]

Self-Hosted:

Insight API (self hosted open-source, by BitPay) (Hosted versions exist, see below) [websockets]
Bitcore node (self hosted open-source using BitPay's "bitcore" API) (successor of Insight API) [websockets]

Discontinued:

~~Hello, Block!~~ offline as of 1/4/2015

High-level wallet APIs

blockchain.info's blockchain data API
Block.io [webhooks, multisig]
BitGo [cosign]
Gem [webhooks, cosign]

Additions/suggestions/corrections?

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