BTC RPC Explorer

Simple, stateless Bitcoin blockchain explorer, via RPC. Built with Node.js, express, bootstrap-v4.

This tool is intended to be a simple, stateless, self-hosted explorer for the Bitcoin blockchain, driven by RPC calls to your own bitcoind node. Because it is stateless, it is easy to run but lacks some (many?) of the features of other explorers.

Features

• List of recent blocks
• Browse blocks by height, in ascending or descending order
• View block details
• View transaction details, with navigation backward via spent outputs
• View raw JSON output used to generate most pages

Getting started

Prerequisites

1. Install and run a full, archiving node - instructions. Ensure that your node has full transaction indexing enabled (txindex=1) and the RPC server enabled (server=1).
2. Synchronize your node with the Bitcoin network.

Instructions

1. Clone this repo
2. npm install to install all required dependencies
3. Optional: Uncomment the "bitcoind" section in env.js to automatically connect to the target node.
4. npm start to start the local server
5. Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3002/
6. Connect using the RPC credentials for your target bitcoin node (if you didn't edit env.js in Step 3)

Screenshots

Connect via RPC

Homepage (list of recent blocks)

Block Details

Transaction Details

Transaction, Raw JSON

List of Blocks by height (in ascending order)