Gas

The RPC API enables you to query the gas price for a specific block or hash.

Gas Price​

Returns gas price for a specific block_height or block_hash.

• Using [null] will return the most recent block's gas price.

• method: gas_price

• params: [block_height], ["block_hash"], or [null]

[block_height]

JSON

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", 
  "id": "dontcare", 
  "method": "gas_price", 
   "params": [17824600] }

JavaScript

HTTPie

["block_hash"]

JSON

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", 
  "id": "dontcare",
  "method": "gas_price",
  "params": ["AXa8CHDQSA8RdFCt12rtpFraVq4fDUgJbLPxwbaZcZrj"] }

JavaScript

HTTPie

[null]

JSON

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", 
  "id": "dontcare", 
  "method": "gas_price", 
  "params": [null] }

JavaScript

HTTPie

Example response:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "gas_price": "100000000"
  },
  "id": "dontcare"
}

What could go wrong?​

When API request fails, RPC server returns a structured error response with a limited number of well-defined error variants, so client code can exhaustively handle all the possible error cases. Our JSON-RPC errors follow verror convention for structuring the error response:

{
    "error": {
        "name": <ERROR_TYPE>,
        "cause": {
            "info": {..},
            "name": <ERROR_CAUSE>
        },
        "code": -32000,
        "data": String,
        "message": "Server error",
    },
    "id": "dontcare",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0"
}

Heads up

The fields code, data, and message in the structure above are considered legacy ones and might be deprecated in the future. Please, don't rely on them.

Here is the exhaustive list of the error variants that can be returned by gas_price method:

ERROR_TYPE error.name	ERROR_CAUSE error.cause.name	Reason	Solution
HANDLER_ERROR	UNKNOWN_BLOCK	The requested block has not been produced yet or it has been garbage-collected (cleaned up to save space on the RPC node)	Check that the requested block is legit If the block had been produced more than 5 epochs ago, try to send your request to an archival node
REQUEST_VALIDATION_ERROR	PARSE_ERROR	Passed arguments can't be parsed by JSON RPC server (missing arguments, wrong format, etc.)	Check the arguments passed and pass the correct ones Check error.cause.info for more details
INTERNAL_ERROR	INTERNAL_ERROR	Something went wrong with the node itself or overloaded	Try again later Send a request to a different node Check error.cause.info for more details