getmempooldescendants

Returns the in-mempool descendants of an unconfirmed transaction. This method uses 80 credits from your daily balance.

Descendants are the unconfirmed transactions that spend from this transaction, directly or indirectly. The method returns an error if the transaction isn't in the mempool.

Parameters

• txid: (string) [required] - Transaction ID.
• verbose: (boolean) [optional] - false returns an array of transaction IDs. true returns an object keyed by transaction ID, with the fields described in getrawmempool. The default is false.

Returns

result: (array or object) - Descendant transaction IDs, or an object of mempool entries when verbose is true.

Request

Replace the transaction ID with one currently in the mempool.

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": "getmempooldescendants", "params": ["a4c7e2f1b0d9c8e7f6a5b4c3d2e1f0a9b8c7d6e5f4a3b2c1d0e9f8a7b6c5d4e3", false]}'

Response

JSON

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": [
    "5b1d0e9f4c3a2b8170e6d5c4b3a29180f7e6d5c4b3a291807f6e5d4c3b2a1908"
  ]
}