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Tempo API method that returns the number of transactions in a block specified by block hash.

Parameters

  • blockHash — the hash of the block

Response

  • result — the number of transactions in the block encoded as hexadecimal

eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash code examples

const ethers = require('ethers');
const NODE_URL = "CHAINSTACK_NODE_URL";
const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider(NODE_URL);

const getTransactionCount = async (blockHash) => {
    const count = await provider.send("eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash", [blockHash]);
    console.log(`Block ${blockHash}`);
    console.log(`Transaction count: ${parseInt(count, 16)}`);
  };

getTransactionCount("0x1c3830dd03a362ba82e82017a5f4e361c12fc43b64a1e4ebd2902f0c313cad7e");