Bitcoin Developer APIs Tools for developers to get data about the blockchain

Payment Processing

Receive Payments

An incredibly easy method for websites to receive bitcoin payments. This service is completely free and secure. Perfect for business or personal use.

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Welcome Developers!
Here you will find everything you need to get started coding for bitcoin. You can use Blockchain.info's own APIs at no cost, to help you create anything bitcoin related! 3rd Party API's provided by other services.

Blockchain Wallet APIs

Blockchain Wallet API (My Wallet Account Required)

API to send and receive payment from a Blockchain Wallet Account.

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Bitcoin-Qt Compatible JSON RPC (My Wallet Account Required)

Blockchain.info is able to function as a bitcoind RPC server for merchants to interact with their My Wallet Account.

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Create Wallets

Programmatically create wallets for your users with the ability to load and redeem funds.

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Blockchain.info provides official API libraries for a number of languages


Installation via pip:

$ pip install blockchain

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Add the following repository to your pom.xml:

    <repository>
        <id>api-v1-client-java-mvn-repo</id>
        <url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blockchain/api-v1-client-java/mvn-repo/</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>

Add the following dependency to your pom.xml:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>info.blockchain</groupId>
    <artifactId>api</artifactId>
    <version>LATEST</version>
  </dependency>

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Installation via NuGet:

PM> Install-Package BlockchainAPI

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Installation via RubyGems:

$ gem install blockchain

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Composer install support is available. Or, download/clone the repository. Copy the src/ folder into your project and add:

require_once('src/Blockchain.php');

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Installation via NPM:

$ npm install blockchain.info

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Data on Transactions & Blocks

Blockchain Data API

Query json data on blocks and transactions. Almost all the data you see on this website is available in JSON format.

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Simple Query API

Simple plain text API for querying blockchain data..

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Websocket

Low latency streaming socket channel providing data on new blocks and transactions. Subscribe to notification on blocks, transactions or an address and receive JSON objects describing a transaction or block when an event occurs.

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Up Time
Blockchain.info use a high availability database cluster and dedicated hardware for maximum up time and low response times.

Market Data

Exchange Rates

Currency data from the major bitcoin exchanges.

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Charts and Statistics

JSON feed containing the data from the charts and stats pages.

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Request Limits

For an API Code to bypass the request limiter please Request An API Code.

Requests in 8 Hours: 3 (Soft Limit = 60000, Hard Limit = 61000)
Requests in 5 minutes: 2 (Soft Limit = 1000, Hard Limit = 1050)