getNetwork

General information about the currently configured network. This response will contain all the information needed to successfully submit transactions to the network this node serves.

Params

(0)

Result

(getNetworkResult)

passphrase

string

required

Network passphrase configured for this Soroban RPC node.

protocolVersion

number

required

Stellar Core protocol version associated with the latest ledger.

friendbotUrl

string

(optional) The URL of this network's "friendbot" faucet

Examples

Example request to the getNetwork method for a node connected to the Stellar Testnet network.

Request

cURL
JavaScript
Python
JSON

curl -X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getNetwork"
}' \
https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org | jq

let requestBody = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getNetwork"
}
let res = await fetch('https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(requestBody),
})
let json = await res.json()
console.log(json)

import json, requests
res = requests.post('https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org', json={
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 8675309,
    "method": "getNetwork"
})
print(json.dumps(res.json(), indent=4))

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getNetwork"
}

Result

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "friendbotUrl": "https://friendbot-testnet.stellar.org/",
    "passphrase": "Test SDF Network ; September 2015",
    "protocolVersion": 20
  }
}