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How to create a database out of the Tezos node?
You could modify Conseil in order to support the extraction of voting related info.
Another approach is to use the tzscan codebase, which also fills a database with information from the Tezos node.
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How to query rewards of a specific KT1 account?
Unfortunately there is no way to directly query just the delegator's reward from TzScan API.
But you can easily use this API call with some extra calculations:
//This is what the baker got
var ...
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How do I query the Balance of a KT1 account Cycle by Cycle?
<block_id> - is a hash or a level of the block at which you ask for balance.
If you want to get a simple balance at the specific point in the cycle:
(this is pseudocode, I hope you figure it ...
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What are the best practices for hosting Tezos nodes with exposed RPCs?
What we do for TezRPC (which powers TezBox) is run a proxy on each server. Within this proxy, you can then block, restrict and customize public facing endpoints.
We currently use a light proxy built ...
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How to create a transaction
There are multiple references online which provide material to understand the steps involved in this. You can check this or that. Some elements are also provided in this other question
Basically the ...
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How to make a tezos node set CORS headers
You need to start the node with these options: --cors-header='content-type' --cors-origin='*'.
Once you’ve started the node with these options the response headers should allow a JavaScript ...
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Binding the node to any address, not just localhost
If you are using a configuration file, there are two different ports : the "listen-addr" option can be used both in the "p2p" section and in the "rpc" section. You can use "0.0.0.0:8732" for example ...
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How do I query the Balance of a KT1 account Cycle by Cycle?
You can use TzScan API for this: /v3/balance_history/KT1..., the documentation is here: balance history doc.
For example https://api6.tzscan.io/v3/balance_history/KT1GgUJwMQoFayRYNwamRAYCvHBLzgorLoGo
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How to get big map value on Babylon
The new CLI and RPC for big map expect hash of a script expression, instead of the raw expression. To obtain the hash you can e.g.:
tezos-client hash data '"tz1bwsEWCwSEXdRvnJxvegQZKeX5dj6oKEys&...
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What are all of the operation types supported in Tezos?
$ ./tezos-client rpc schema post /chains/main/blocks/head/helpers/forge/operations | jq '.input.definitions."operation.alpha.contents".oneOf | .[] | .properties.kind.enum | .[0]'
"endorsement"
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What are the best practices for hosting Tezos nodes with exposed RPCs?
Either:
don't expose the RPC at all (!), or
put a proxy in front with a maximally restrictive whitelist.
Of course, for a whitelist to help, you must not include potentially harmful endpoints in ...
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How do I get a list of baking rights for a wallet address using the RPC API?
GET ../<block_id>/helpers/baking_rights?(level=<block_level>)*&(cycle=<block_cycle>)*&(delegate=<pkh>)*&[max_priority=<int>]&[all]
Retrieves the list ...
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How i can get the header of an uncle block using rpc?
A node does not keep the former alternative heads. You can only query the current heads:
tezos-client -A mainnet-node.tzscan.io rpc help /chains/main/blocks
Old ones are removed when their fitness ...
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What are the best practices for hosting Tezos nodes with exposed RPCs?
When you only need the RPC for yourself you could also use ssh local port forwarding to forward the RPC from the localhost of your remote machine to the localhost of your local machine.
For instance, ...
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What are the best practices for hosting Tezos nodes with exposed RPCs?
One of the alternatives i could think of, is using Conseil:
https://github.com/Cryptonomic/Conseil
In my humble understanding what Conseil does, is provide an extended API on top of a tezos-node/rpc. ...
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Tezos alpha node cors
You are sending your query to the wrong address - it should be (note you are missing "chain/main/"):
https://alphanet-node.tzscan.io/chains/main/blocks/head/context/contracts/<contract_id>/...
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How to use rpc parse operations endpoint
The problem is that /parse/operations expects signed operations. You can just add 64 zero bytes to the end:
{
"operations": [
{
"data": "...
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How to get big map value on Babylon
The cli command is tezos-client get big map value for <key> of type <type of the key> in <contract>. By adding the -l option, we also get the RPC: /chains/main/blocks/head/context/...
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How is chain_id computed?
The chain_id is computed from the genesis block hash as follows.
First, in pseudocode:
tezosB58CheckEncode('Net',
firstFourBytes(
blake2b(msg = tezosB58CheckDecode('B', genesisBlockHash),
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is it possible for tezos-node RPC to authenticate clients with SSL?
This is currently not supported. You can use an nginx proxy to secure it with HTTP Basic Authentication with the following configuration that uses a https connection on standard port:
server {
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How do I get the contents of a big_map through the RPC interface?
As of 004_Pt24m4xi:
You can use the big_map_get RPC to get individual values out.
There is also a tezos-client command for this. (By passing -l we can see how it works through the RPC.)
$ tezos-...
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How to call a smart contract method with params with eztz?
You can use the contract send method:
eztz.contract.send(contract, keys, amount, parameter, fee, gasLimit, storageLimit)
For parameter, you just enter in the raw Michelson input (the same you would ...
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How to create a transaction
helpers/scripts/run_operation is useful to simulate an operation without signing it (you may use zero bytes for the signature), in order to estimate the gas and storage requirements. You will see ...
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Gas consumption in a chain of internal transfers
You cannot exceed the hard_gas_limit_per_operation = 400000. It will probably be increased in future protocols, though (see e.g. the "Athens" proposals).
Internal transfers can use up a lot of gas.
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Can /context/constants change apart from a protocol change?
No it is not. Constants are set in the genesis block and then changed only by amendments. They are stored in the context, which is the state passed to and returned by the protocol when it validates a ...
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which rpc endpoint is used to find the roll snapshot which was used for determining baking/endorsing rights at a certain cycle?
You can get information about snapshot for a given cycle from the raw context:
var cycle = 100;
var level = cycle * 4096 + 1;
var snapshot = get('/chains/main/blocks/{level}/context/raw/json/...
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Tezos RPC doesn't respond with blocks below the current checkpoint
The blog post you referenced says that:
A node running in full-mode stores the full chain data for all blocks, even the ones older than the current checkpoint. More precisely, it keeps the headers ...
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Current level of block-chain
You can request the current head of your node using ./tezos-client rpc get /chains/main/blocks/head (and look for the level and hash information). Then, use your favorite block explorer to know the ...
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How do you discover the indexes of the big maps of a contract?
The tezos-client and tezos-node RPC have no such feature.
If you don't mind using an API other then the node RPC you can find this in the new version of the tzstats indexer (GET /explorer/contract/{...
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Find balance of an address/contract at a given block / date
You can use the HTTP-RPC interface on your local node.
http://localhost:8732/chains/main/blocks/{BLOCK}/context/contracts/{ADDRESS}/balance
On a default node, this is only good for the previous 5 ...
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