The explorer is implemented as an asyncio application
in Python +3.7 with Quart and aiohttp.
Still lots of things to do, as this is the very early stage of the development. But issues, comments and testing is already being welcomed.
Install Bitcoin Core and run bitcoind in the testnet mode with some rpcuser and rpcpassword
which are set here as bitcoinrpc and secretpassword222 as examples:
bitcoind -server -testnet -txindex=0 -prune=0 -rpcuser=bitcoinrpc -rpcpassword=secretpassword222Setup .cookie for Bitcoin node RPC:
echo -n "bitcoinrpc:secretpassword222" > ~/bitcoin/testnet3/.cookieIf you change the above username:password, please edit config.py
accordingly.
Build Blockstream/electrs:
sudo apt install clang cmake build-essential
sudo apt install librocksdb-dev
git clone https://github.com/blockstream/electrs && cd electrs
git checkout new-index
cargo build --locked --releaseOnce built, run with:
./target/release/electrs -vvv --network testnet --timestamp --http-addr "127.0.0.1:3000"once started have to wait till its fully synced with the node. The index will not accept any connections if its not in sync with the blockchain.
Before the explorer can be used, the indexer must be fully synced with the node.
git clone https://github.com/moneroexamples/onion-bitcoin-blockchain-explorer.git
cd onion-bitcoin-blockchain-explorer
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv
python -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install pip --upgrade
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run it for development with:
env QUART_APP=app quart run
or for production with 2 workers:
hypercorn app -w 2
Other examples can be found on github. Please know that some of the examples/repositories are not finished and may not work as intended.
Constructive criticism, code and website edits are always good. They can be made through Github.