Add http rest API

[Overtorment]

So this explorer can turn into pluggable backend for light wallet clients (once additional indexing by address is added)

[got3nks]

REST API would be great, +1

[mortalys]

Was the feature implemented ? Would be great to access JSON requests on page without need to go on the tabs

[fellowworldcitizen]

+1! JSON is already there! Could be as simple as adding json/1 to URL. Then show json as: [{"tabname1":json1},{"tabname2":json2}].

[pointbiz]

There's already an API that's not documented.
See the routes/ApiRouter.js
Here's an example.
https://explorer.btc21.org/api/blocks-by-height/1

So, I presume the task would be to add more routes to that ApiRouter that reuse some logic from the routes that return HTML but instead return JSON.

And a task to make the ApI documentation.

[pointbiz]

Here's an API for a raw transaction:
https://explorer.btc21.org/api/raw-tx-with-inputs/b780b77040647f7a8196a72249ce70d04fb0964fa11dec2e53564d251d0ed5ab

[janoside]

We have an API, finally! See it on the demo site at https://bitcoinexplorer.org/api/docs

This is available now for source installations and will be included in the next release coming soon.