Title: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: simon66 on January 16, 2012, 10:29:34 PM I'm currently working of a project and I need to know where can I find a reliable difficulty API?
Like I found this one for BTC http://blockexplorer.com/q/getdifficulty but I need to get one for NMV and DVC. Thanks. PS. I'll keep searching. Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on January 16, 2012, 10:57:40 PM Every ?coind has an RPC command called getdifficulty to fetch current difficulty.
Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: simon66 on January 16, 2012, 11:19:29 PM Every ?coind has an RPC command called getdifficulty to fetch current difficulty. ummm. what? Lol Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: notme on January 16, 2012, 11:21:24 PM Every ?coind has an RPC command called getdifficulty to fetch current difficulty. This. bitcoind getdifficulty namecoind getdifficulty dvcoind getdifficulty (guessing on this one) Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: scintill on January 16, 2012, 11:22:25 PM Every ?coind has an RPC command called getdifficulty to fetch current difficulty. ummm. what? Lol If you run bitcoind, namecoind, devcoind and keep them synced with the network, it's as easy as Code: $ bitcoind getdifficulty at the shell, or via HTTP RPC requests if you set that up. Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: simon66 on January 17, 2012, 12:52:38 AM Every ?coind has an RPC command called getdifficulty to fetch current difficulty. ummm. what? Lol If you run bitcoind, namecoind, devcoind and keep them synced with the network, it's as easy as Code: $ bitcoind getdifficulty at the shell, or via HTTP RPC requests if you set that up. I'm not so sure if the person I'm helping have that installed, how can I tell and how can I call it via php. Sorry if I'm asking too much. Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: payb.tc on January 17, 2012, 12:56:27 AM for nmc, you could try scraping this page:
http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php Code: <h2>Namecoin difficulty</h2> Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: simon66 on January 17, 2012, 01:02:48 AM for nmc, you could try scraping this page: http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php Code: <h2>Namecoin difficulty</h2> I was gonna do that, but there has to be an easier method. I'll wait on the "bitcoind getdifficulty" thingy Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: payb.tc on January 17, 2012, 01:16:55 AM for nmc, you could try scraping this page: http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php Code: <h2>Namecoin difficulty</h2> I was gonna do that, but there has to be an easier method. I'll wait on the "bitcoind getdifficulty" thingy here you go... a bullet-proof php attempt: Code: <?php Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: scintill on January 17, 2012, 04:26:03 AM Every ?coind has an RPC command called getdifficulty to fetch current difficulty. ummm. what? Lol If you run bitcoind, namecoind, devcoind and keep them synced with the network, it's as easy as Code: $ bitcoind getdifficulty at the shell, or via HTTP RPC requests if you set that up. I'm not so sure if the person I'm helping have that installed, how can I tell and how can I call it via php. Sorry if I'm asking too much. You can check by trying "bitcoind getdifficulty" at the command line and seeing if it works. If it does, the PHP is simple: Code: <?php The "`" symbols are the "backtick operator", but shell_exec() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php) is equivalent. Replacing bitcoind with namecoind, etc., would make it work for all chains, if all the servers are installed and running. From the sounds of it installing and maintaining nodes for each chain is more complicated than you want. The APIs at http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/q (http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/q) might meet your needs, but last I looked some of the chains were out of date, and it seems to be down right now. I also couldn't figure out how to use the relevant API call -- it would be something like http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/chain/Bitcoin/q/nethash , but I couldn't figure out how to narrow it to just the current difficulty. Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: payb.tc on January 17, 2012, 04:31:23 AM You can check by trying "bitcoind getdifficulty" at the command line and seeing if it works. If it does, the PHP is simple: Code: <?php The "`" symbols are the "backtick operator", but shell_exec() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php) is equivalent. Replacing bitcoind with namecoind, etc., would make it work for all chains, if all the servers are installed and running. wouldn't that approach also require you to know the full path to bitcoind? Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: scintill on January 17, 2012, 04:37:36 AM here you go... a bullet-proof php attempt: Code: <?php simon66, this is probably your best bet, in combination with similar pages for the other chains you're interested in. wouldn't that approach also require you to know the full path to bitcoind? If it is not in the PATH environment variable, you would have to put the full path. Mine is in the PATH, so it works. Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: simon66 on January 17, 2012, 05:09:10 AM looking here he got bitcoind, namecoind, and devcoind.
It's installed on /var/www/files/daemons/ I tried Code: $difficulty = (float)shell_exec('/var/www/files/daemons/bitcoind getdifficulty'); and I got "Difficulty 0" Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: payb.tc on January 17, 2012, 05:12:48 AM looking here he got bitcoind, namecoind, and devcoind. It's installed on /var/www/files/daemons/ I tried Code: $difficulty = (float)shell_exec('/var/www/files/daemons/bitcoind getdifficulty'); and I got "Difficulty 0" do you know if bitcoind was actually already up and running or did your command launch it? > ps aux|grep bit Title: Re: [API] Difficulty needed. Post by: scintill on January 17, 2012, 05:31:26 AM looking here he got bitcoind, namecoind, and devcoind. It's installed on /var/www/files/daemons/ I tried Code: $difficulty = (float)shell_exec('/var/www/files/daemons/bitcoind getdifficulty'); and I got "Difficulty 0" do you know if bitcoind was actually already up and running or did your command launch it? > ps aux|grep bit Yeah, check that, and if the chain is synced up. There is a "getblockcount" command that should be close to http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount . (If the server isn't started "bitcoind -daemon" is how I start it, maybe there are better ways.) |