Bitcoin 3rd-party APIs

Ruby wrapper for various popular 3rd-party bitcoin related APIs. At the moment only Block Explorer (http://blockexplorer.com) and BlockChain.info (http://blockchain.info) are wrapped. The gem exposes some handy bitcoin blockchain query methods, useful for thin bitcoin clients.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bitcoin-3rd-party-apis'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bitcoin-3rd-party-apis

Usage

mytransactions returns Ruby hash of raw transactions relating to the specified address(es).

    BlockExplorer.mytransactions(address)
    BlockExplorer.mytransactions([address1, address2])

multiaddr is similar to BlockExplorer's mytransactions, but returns a more user-friendly hash.

    BlockchainInfo.multiaddr(address)
    BlockchainInfo.multiaddr([address1, address2])

getreceivedbyaddress returns BigDecimal of the total amount of bitcoins sent to the address. Note for the BlockchainInfo version, 120 is the maximum confirmation number.

    BlockExplorer.getreceivedbyaddress(address)
    BlockExplorer.getreceivedbyaddress(address, 3) # return received amount where transactions have minconf=3

    BlockchainInfo.getreceivedbyaddress(address)
    BlockchainInfo.getreceivedbyaddress(address, 3) # return received amount where transactions have minconf=3

longest_block_count returns count of the longest blockchain in the network. This blockchain is considered the current blockchain.

    BlockchainInfo.longest_block_count

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request