Get block by date

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GEThttps://deep-index.moralis.io/api/v2.2/dateToBlock

Get the closest block given the date.

QUERY PARAMS

chainstring

The chain to query

eth0x1goerli0x5sepolia0xaa36a7polygon0x89mumbai0x13881bsc0x38bsc testnet0x61avalanche0xa86afantom0xfapalm0x2a15c308dcronos0x19arbitrum0xa4b1gnosis0x64gnosis testnet0x27d8chiliz0x15b38chiliz testnet0x15b32base0x2105base testnet0x14a33optimism0xa

datestringrequired

Unix date in seconds or a datestring (any format that is accepted by momentjs)

Responses

API KEY

Node.js

import Moralis from 'moralis';

try {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY"
  });

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.block.getDateToBlock({
    "chain": "0x1"
  });

  console.log(response.raw);
} catch (e) {
  console.error(e);
}

Python

from moralis import evm_api

api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

params = {
  "chain": "eth"
}

result = evm_api.block.get_date_to_block(
  api_key=api_key,
  params=params,
)

print(result)

cURL

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://deep-index.moralis.io/api/v2.2/dateToBlock?chain=eth' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' 

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://deep-index.moralis.io/api/v2.2/dateToBlock?chain=eth"

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, payload)

  req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
  req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(res)
  fmt.Println(string(body))

}

PHP

<?php
// Dependencies to install:
// $ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://deep-index.moralis.io/api/v2.2/dateToBlock?chain=eth', [
  'headers' => [
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

Response Example

200 Returns the block number and corresponding date and timestamp

{
  "date": "2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
  "block": 9193266,
  "timestamp": 1577836811,
  "block_timestamp": "2019-12-31T23:59:45.000Z",
  "hash": "0x9b559aef7ea858608c2e554246fe4a24287e7aeeb976848df2b9a2531f4b9171",
  "parent_hash": "0x011d1fc45839de975cc55d758943f9f1d204f80a90eb631f3bf064b80d53e045"
}