Bitgesell RPC Explorer

Features

• Network Summary dashboard

• View details of blocks, transactions, and addresses

• Analysis tools for viewing stats on blocks, transactions, and miner activity

• JSON REST API

• See raw JSON content from BGLd used to generate most pages

• Search by transaction ID, block hash/height, and address

• Optional transaction history for addresses by querying from Bitgesell API

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Changelog / Release notes

See CHANGELOG.md.

Getting started

Prerequisites

1. Install Bitgesell Core - instructions. Ensure that Bitgesell Core's' RPC server is enabled (server=1).
2. Allow Bitgesell Core to synchronize with the Bitgesell network (you can use this tool while sychronizing, but some pages may fail).
3. Install Node.js (16+ required, 18+ recommended).

Note about pruning and indexing configurations

This tool is designed to work best with full transaction indexing enabled (txindex=1) and pruning disabled.

In particular, with pruning enabled and/or txindex disabled, the following functionality is altered:

• You will only be able to search for mempool, recently confirmed, and wallet transactions by their txid. Searching for non-wallet transactions that were confirmed over 3 blocks ago is only possible if you provide the confirmed block height in addition to the txid.
• Pruned blocks will display basic header information, without the list of transactions. Transactions in pruned blocks will not be available, unless they're wallet-related. Block stats will only work for unpruned blocks.
• The address and amount of previous transaction outputs will not be shown, only the txid:vout.
• The mining fee will only be available for unconfirmed transactions.

Install / Run

If you're running on mainnet with the default datadir and port, the default configuration should Just Work. Otherwise, see the Configuration section below.

Install via npm:

Note: npm v7+ is required

npm install -g bgl-rpc-explorer
bgl-rpc-explorer

Run from source:

1. git clone https://github.com/naftalimurgor/bgl-rpc-explorer
2. cd bgl-rpc-explorer
3. npm install
4. npm start

After a default installation+startup using any of the above methods, the app can be viewed at http://127.0.0.1:3002/

Configuration

Configuration options may be set via environment variables or CLI arguments.

Configuration with environment variables

To configure with environment variables, you need to create one of the 2 following files and enter values in it:

1. ~/.config/bgl-rpc-explorer.env
2. .env in the working directory for bgl-rpc-explorer

In either case, refer to .env-sample for a list of the options and formatting details.

Run via Docker

1. docker build -t bgl-rpc-explorer .
2. docker run -it -p 3002:3002 -e BTCEXP_HOST=0.0.0.0 bgl-rpc-explorer

Reverse proxy with HTTPS

See instructions here for using nginx+certbot (letsencrypt) for an HTTPS-accessible, reverse-proxied site.

Support

If you get value from this project, please consider supporting my work with a donation. All donations are truly appreciated.

Donate USDT(Ethereum):

• https://donate.Bitgesellexplorer.org

Or, via a BTC address: