GetBlockByNumber

Tries to fetch a block given its number. It has an option to include the transactions in the block, which defaults to false. Note that this function will only fetch blocks that are part of the main chain.

const res = await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8648", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
  jsonrpc: "2.0",
  method: "getBlockByNumber",
  params: [0, false],
  id: 1
})
});
const data = await res.json();

Parameters

Prop	Type / Default
`blockNumber`	`number`
`includeBody`	`boolean`

Returns

Prop	Type / Default
`hash`	`string`
`size`	`number`
`batch`	`number`
`epoch`	`number`
`network`	`string`
`version`	`number`
`number`	`number`
`timestamp`	`number`
`parentHash`	`string`
`seed`	`string`
`extraData`	`array`
`stateHash`	`string`
`bodyHash`	`string`
`historyHash`	`string`
`transactions`	`array`
`additionalFields`	`object`

GetBlockByNumber

Parameters

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