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Access content on the Portal network#

Once you have a Portal node connected to the network with the JSON-RPC interface enabled, then you can access the content available on the Portal network.

You can for example access execution layer blocks through the standardized JSON-RPC call eth_getBlockByHash:

# Get the hash of a block from your favorite block explorer, e.g.:
BLOCKHASH=0x55b11b918355b1ef9c5db810302ebad0bf2544255b530cdce90674d5887bb286 # Replace this to the block hash of your choice
# Run this command to get this block:
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"eth_getBlockByHash","params":["'${BLOCKHASH}'", true]}' http://localhost:8545

You can also use our blockwalk tool to walk down the blocks one by one: 

make blockwalk

BLOCKHASH=0x55b11b918355b1ef9c5db810302ebad0bf2544255b530cdce90674d5887bb286 # Replace this to the block hash of your choice
./build/blockwalk --block-hash:${BLOCKHASH}