getblockcount

Returns the height of the most-work fully validated chain. This method uses 80 credits from your daily balance.

The genesis block has height 0.

Parameters

None

Returns

result: (integer) - Current block height.

Request

curl

curl https://bitcoin-mainnet.infura.io/v3/<YOUR-API-KEY> \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "getblockcount", "params": []}'

Response

JSON

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": 971402
}