Blockchain APIs for Litecore

A module for Litecore that implements HTTP requests to different Web APIs to query the state of the blockchain.

Getting started

Be careful! When using this module, the information retrieved from remote servers may be compromised and not reflect the actual state of the blockchain.

npm install litecore-explorers
bower install litecore-explorers

UTXOs

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.getUtxos('mLitecoin...', function(err, utxos) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    // Maybe use the UTXOs to create a transaction
  }
});

You can optionally pass a minimum confirmation amount, and getUtxos will only return unspent transactions with at least that many confirmations.

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.getUtxos({address: 'mLitecoin...', minconf: 5}, function(err, utxos) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    // UTXOs with at least 5 confirmations are here
  }
});

Address

Get information about a Litecoin address:

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.address('mLitecoin...', function(err, data) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    // Address information here
  }
});

You can also specify a "from" and "to" range, useful for paging through the transaction history of an address:

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.address({address: 'mLitecoin...', from: 1000, to: 2000}, function(err, data) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    // Address information here
  }
});

Blocks

Get information about recent blocks:

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.getBlocks(function(err, blocks) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    //Recent block data here
  }
});

Get information about a specific block, by its blockhash:

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.getBlock('369005760377532901c126ae4e907352f66624033275c92803f538773415792a', function(err, block) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    //Block data here
  }
});

Broadcast a Transaction

var explorers = require('litecore-explorers');
var insight = new explorers.Insight();

insight.broadcast(tx, function(err, returnedTxId) {
  if (err) {
    // Handle errors...
  } else {
    // Mark the transaction as broadcasted
  }
});

License

Code released under the MIT license.