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Testnet support #144

Open boldandbusted opened 5 years ago

boldandbusted commented 5 years ago

Howdy. Thanks for blockchair! :) Is there a way for me to get stats from the api for various blockchain testnets? Specifically, I'm looking for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) testnet data. Cheers!

Har01d commented 5 years ago

Hey,

Thanks for using Blockchair! :)

We don’t support testnets as of now, but we have some plans to bring testnet explorers and APIs for all coins we support.

EchterAgo commented 5 years ago

I'd also really like to see Blockchair support testnet. With blocktrail.com gone, bitcoin.com's explorer seems to be the only one left that supports BCH testnet.

Polve commented 5 years ago

Hello, is there any plan for that? Support for all testnets of supported coins would be very useful.

If you don't want to impact production you can create a new baseapi like test.api.blockchair.com, running on low performance servers..

Har01d commented 5 years ago

It’s still on our general roadmap as an idea, but I don’t think we’ll roll it out this year. Making testnets available for all the coins we support requires a separate website, a separate API service, a lot of maintenance, and so on, while there’s really not that many use cases.

mrbianchi commented 5 years ago

I'm writting to manifest my desire on using a testnet segwit explorer api

mikemilla commented 5 years ago

Hey team! Love the API! Would really love to see the following testnets:

I understanding these are a bit tricky to implement, but would love to see them added to your API in the future!

Thanks

anysoft commented 5 years ago

Blockchair is a perfect blockchain explorer. When can I see the testnet?

Har01d commented 5 years ago

As it was a popular request we’ve decided to give it a shot. As of now, we’ve launched Bitcoin Testnet API (coming to our website later this week), and all Bitcoin endpoints are now available for Bitcoin Testnet as well (please see the changelog for v.2.0.32: https://github.com/Blockchair/Blockchair.Support/blob/master/API_DOCUMENTATION_EN.md).

Here’s a couple of examples:

We have some plans to add Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum testnets in the future. I don’t know if we’ll have testnets for all explorers we have as I’m not sure if there’s a need to have testnets for identical architectures (e.g. Litecoin isn’t that different from Bitcoin).

CC @boldandbusted, @EchterAgo, @Polve, @mrbianchi, @mikemilla.

Polve commented 5 years ago

BCH testnet support would be particularly welcome :-)