How can I access the details of a given address from a blockchain

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I am building blockchain explorer. I have my own blockchain. In that, i want to search details of a given address from blockchain. There is no direct API to get detail of an address, could anybody help how to this ? 

Jul 11, 2018 in Blockchain by aryya
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There are two ways to actually do this:

option 1: blockchain.info has an open API (REST + JSON) https://blockchain.info/it/api/blockchain_api here how: https://blockchain.info/it/rawaddr/$bitcoin_address bear in mind that you can only acquire info from an address that actually moved at least once some bitcoin on the network. If you just create a new wallet and do not transact then the public address is non existent on the blockchain (i.e. there's no difference between a newly generated address and a non existent address). That's the "shameful" approach as you are building a blockchain explorer using another blockchain explorer, see option 2 for the correct approach:

option 2: Run a bitcoin node on your own and query your stuff on it. You may not be able to run a node on a normal hosting, probably you need something more like an Amazon AWS instance or host on your own server

answered Jul 11, 2018 by Shashank
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