Blockchain Receive Payment API

[jmasterson]

How reliable is their service? Anobody using this? How's your experience?

[Muhammed Zakir]

Their service is good. It is pretty easy to setup. If you ask me before I knew about Blocktrail, I would have said Blockchain.info is my favorite explorer and it's payment service is great but after I knew about Blocktrail, it is better than Blockchain.info and it now offers payment API too. So I will use it. Main reason I go with Blocktrail is because of Blockchain.info's corrupted data. It isn't always corrupted though.

[Time_DJ]

Im just getting started with blockchain.info's api... These tutorials helped alot!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990348.0

I wish there were tutorials like that for chain.com and their api.

 

[jmasterson]

I saw this in the API page of blockchain.info

Requests in 8 Hours: 39 (Soft Limit = 28800, Hard Limit = 28900)
Requests in 5 minutes: 1 (Soft Limit = 700, Hard Limit = 725)

Does anybody know what it means?

I plan to query every block generated then get all the transaction details, does that mean I can only query the blockchain data api once every 5 minutes? if there are many transactions in a block i want to query each transaction.

[coinableS]

Im just getting started with blockchain.info's api... These tutorials helped alot!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990348.0

I wish there were tutorials like that for chain.com and their api.

 

Thanks TimeDJ!  I wish some of the more knowledgeable coders in these forums would create tutorials. I created those since none existed and I'm no professional just a hobbyist so we could probably learn some pretty cool things if a pro put together some tutorials.

As for chain.com I've never tried them, I'll have to check it out. 

[Muhammed Zakir]

I saw this in the API page of blockchain.info

Requests in 8 Hours: 39 (Soft Limit = 28800, Hard Limit = 28900)
Requests in 5 minutes: 1 (Soft Limit = 700, Hard Limit = 725)

Does anybody know what it means?

I plan to query every block generated then get all the transaction details, does that mean I can only query the blockchain data api once every 5 minutes? if there are many transactions in a block i want to query each transaction.

I don't understand why are you using receive payment API for this use. Can you please clarify?

[jmasterson]

I saw this in the API page of blockchain.info

Requests in 8 Hours: 39 (Soft Limit = 28800, Hard Limit = 28900)
Requests in 5 minutes: 1 (Soft Limit = 700, Hard Limit = 725)

Does anybody know what it means?

I plan to query every block generated then get all the transaction details, does that mean I can only query the blockchain data api once every 5 minutes? if there are many transactions in a block i want to query each transaction.

I don't understand why are you using receive payment API for this use. Can you please clarify?

The receive payment api has a callback url. I'm asking if there is a limit how many callbacks can they make to my site. What if i make a game that makes use of the callback api and many players would play the game, will the callbacks be "throttled" since they have a limit? I hope I made a clear explanation.

[coinableS]

I saw this in the API page of blockchain.info

Requests in 8 Hours: 39 (Soft Limit = 28800, Hard Limit = 28900)
Requests in 5 minutes: 1 (Soft Limit = 700, Hard Limit = 725)

Does anybody know what it means?

I plan to query every block generated then get all the transaction details, does that mean I can only query the blockchain data api once every 5 minutes? if there are many transactions in a block i want to query each transaction.

You can hit it 700 times in a 5 minute period (two times per second).
You can hit it 28,800 times in an 8 hour period (once every second).

[Muhammed Zakir]

I saw this in the API page of blockchain.info

Requests in 8 Hours: 39 (Soft Limit = 28800, Hard Limit = 28900)
Requests in 5 minutes: 1 (Soft Limit = 700, Hard Limit = 725)

Does anybody know what it means?

I plan to query every block generated then get all the transaction details, does that mean I can only query the blockchain data api once every 5 minutes? if there are many transactions in a block i want to query each transaction.

I don't understand why are you using receive payment API for this use. Can you please clarify?

The receive payment api has a callback url. I'm asking if there is a limit how many callbacks can they make to my site. What if i make a game that makes use of the callback api and many players would play the game, will the callbacks be "throttled" since they have a limit? I hope I made a clear explanation.

Got it. I think you can request for an API key which will give decrease your limits.