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I have a bitcoin address and I want to get the JSON format of the balance using blockstreams api service.
It's this one: https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora/blob/master/API.md#transaction-format
It's not clear on what I need to put in the URL. I tried:
and it doesn't work.
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As others have said you can use https://blockstream.info/api/address/bc1qgsmfaz22lzy08wqjspd8xtm43hal5tgz4hyac6 for the JSON - the doc is in reference to running a local instance - the exact endpoint is depending on deployment, the default deployment we use has nginx forward /api/ requests to electrs without the api bit https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora/blob/master/contrib/nginx.conf.in#L32 but it depends on how people want to deploy it.
We should probably mention this in the API.md file to avoid confusion
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I think you're confused about two things. The API needs a "/api" in the URL, and the colon indicates a value to be replaced, not a literal. For example https://blockstream.info/api/address/bc1qgsmfaz22lzy08wqjspd8xtm43hal5tgz4hyac6 works.
– Pieter Wuille – 2019-11-18T17:33:43.780yes that works. it doesn't say anywhere on that docs that I had to add api after the domain name. thanks! – Patoshi パトシ – 2019-11-18T17:52:45.880