Simple, database-free Bitcoin Cash blockchain explorer, via RPC. Built with Node.js, express, bootstrap-v4.
This tool is intended to be a simple, self-hosted explorer for the Bitcoin blockchain, driven by RPC calls to your own bitcoind node. This tool is easy to run but currently lacks features compared to database-backed explorers.
Live demo available at: https://explorer.bitcoinabc.org
- Network Summary "dashboard"
- View details of blocks, transactions, and addresses
- Analysis tools for viewing stats on blocks, transactions, and miner activity
- View JSON content used to generate most pages
- Search by transaction ID, block hash/height, and address
- Optional transaction history for addresses by querying from ElectrumX and blockchair.com
- Mempool summary, with fee, size, and age breakdowns
- RPC command browser and terminal
See CHANGELOG.md.
The below instructions are geared toward BCH, but can be adapted easily to other coins.
- Recent version of Docker
- Install and run a full, archiving node - instructions. Ensure that your bitcoin node has full transaction indexing enabled (
txindex=1) and the RPC server enabled (server=1). - Synchronize your node with the Bitcoin network.
On the project base directory:
docker build -t bch-rpc-explorer .
docker run -p 3002:3002 bch-rpc-explorer --bitcoind-user [rpcusername] --bitcoind-pass [rpcpassword]If have a mainnet node running with the default datadir and port, this should work. Open http://127.0.0.1:3002/ to view the explorer.
Configuration options may be passed as environment variables
or by creating an env file at ~/.config/bch-rpc-explorer.env
or at .env in the working directory.
See .env-sample for a list of the options and details for formatting .env.
You may also pass options as CLI arguments, for example:
docker run bch-rpc-explorer --port 8080 --bitcoind-port 18443 --bitcoind-user [rpcusername] --bitcoind-pass [rpcpassword]See docker run bch-rpc-explorer --help for the full list of CLI options.
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