# Bigchaindb Blocks API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-blocks-api/  
**Provider:** Bigchaindb — https://apis.io/providers/bigchaindb/  
**Base URL:** https://test.ipdb.io:9984  
**Documentation:** https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html

Bigchaindb Blocks API is one of 7 APIs that [Bigchaindb](https://apis.io/providers/bigchaindb/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Blocks. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.

Read blocks by height or by contained transaction.

## Machine-readable artifacts (10)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/openapi/bigchaindb-blocks-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.bigchaindb.com/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/http-client-server-api.html
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/authentication/bigchaindb-authentication.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/errors/bigchaindb-problem-types.yml
- **DataModel** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/data-model/bigchaindb-data-model.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
- **Idempotency** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/conventions/bigchaindb-conventions.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/bigchaindb-lifecycle.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bigchaindb/refs/heads/main/conformance/bigchaindb-conformance.yml

## Other Bigchaindb APIs (6)

- [Bigchaindb Assets API](https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-assets-api/)
- [Bigchaindb Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-metadata-api/)
- [Bigchaindb Outputs API](https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-outputs-api/)
- [Bigchaindb Root API](https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-root-api/)
- [Bigchaindb Transactions API](https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-transactions-api/)
- [Bigchaindb Validators API](https://apis.io/apis/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-validators-api/)

## Tags

Blocks

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