Network

Get information about the Substrate node's activity in the peer-to-peer network.

Returns network related information of the node.

GEThttps://dot-playbook.nownodes.io/node/network

Response

200

successful operation

Body

application/json

nodeRolesNodeRole (enum)

Role of this node. (N.B. Sentry nodes are being deprecated.)

FullLightClientAuthoritySentry

numPeersstring (unsignedInteger)

Number of peers the node is connected to.

isSyncingboolean

Whether or not the node is syncing. False indicates that the node is in sync.

shouldHavePeersboolean

Whether or not the node should be connected to peers. Might be false for local chains or when running without discovery.

localPeerIdstring

Local copy of the PeerId.

localListenAddressesarray of string

Multiaddresses that the local node is listening on. The addresses include a trailing /p2p/ with the local PeerId, and are thus suitable to be passed to system_addReservedPeer or as a bootnode address for example.

peersInfoarray of PeerInfo (object)

Request

JavaScriptCurlPython

const response = await fetch('https://dot-playbook.nownodes.io/node/network', {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {},
});
const data = await response.json();

Response

200

{
  "nodeRoles": "Full",
  "numPeers": "text",
  "isSyncing": false,
  "shouldHavePeers": false,
  "localPeerId": "text",
  "localListenAddresses": [
    "text"
  ],
  "peersInfo": [
    {
      "peerId": "text",
      "roles": "text",
      "protocolVersion": "text",
      "bestHash": "text",
      "bestNumber": "text"
    }
  ]
}