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I'm using Blockchain.info's api:
https://blockchain.info/api/blockchain_api
I understand that it is impossible for a transaction to know which block it will be included in but maybe one could use the block height to match the tx to the block?
Given a transaction hash, how do you get the block the transaction was included in?
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but maybe one could use the block height to match the tx to the block?
Indeed that would work fine, block_height is returned by the /rawtx/ call (https://blockchain.info/rawtx/$tx_hash) for transactions that have been included in a block (unconfirmed transactions have no block_height key). Then you can find the block hash and/or information about the block with the /block-height/ call (https://blockchain.info/block-height/$block_height?format=json)
Would you mind trying tx hash: 4c1df235ffd7642008989422aee5255e6312b4172b55d94e328fa99e99d727c7 on https://www.smartbit.com.au/api just as a sanity check because I don't see the tx come up on the block it's supposed to...
– timothyylim – 2017-11-02T18:04:30.580