Ordinal Explorer

The ord binary includes a block explorer. We host an instance of the block explorer on mainnet at ordinals.com, and on signet at signet.ordinals.com.

Running The Explorer

The server can be run locally with:

ord server

To specify a port add the --http-port flag:

ord server --http-port 8080

To enable the JSON-API endpoints add the --enable-json-api or -j flag (see here for more info):

ord server --enable-json-api

To test how your inscriptions will look you can run:

ord preview <FILE1> <FILE2> ...

Search

The search box accepts a variety of object representations.

Blocks

Blocks can be searched by hash, for example, the genesis block:

000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f

Transactions

Transactions can be searched by hash, for example, the genesis block coinbase transaction:

4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b

Outputs

Transaction outputs can be searched by outpoint, for example, the only output of the genesis block coinbase transaction:

4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b:0

Sats

Sats can be searched by integer, their position within the entire bitcoin supply:

2099994106992659

By decimal, their block and offset within that block:

481824.0

By degree, their cycle, blocks since the last halving, blocks since the last difficulty adjustment, and offset within their block:

1°0′0″0‴

By name, their base 26 representation using the letters "a" through "z":

ahistorical

Or by percentile, the percentage of bitcoin's supply that has been or will have been issued when they are mined:

100%

You can run ord server with the --enable-json-api flag to access endpoints that return JSON instead of HTML if you set the HTTP Accept: application/json header. The structure of these objects closely follows what is shown in the HTML. These endpoints are:

/inscription/<INSCRIPTION_ID>
/inscriptions
/inscriptions/block/<BLOCK_HEIGHT>
/inscriptions/block/<BLOCK_HEIGHT>/<PAGE_INDEX>
/inscriptions/<FROM>
/inscriptions/<FROM>/<N>
/output/<OUTPOINT>
/output/<OUTPOINT>
/sat/<SAT>

To get a list of the latest 100 inscriptions you would do:

curl -s -H "Accept: application/json" 'http://0.0.0.0:80/inscriptions'

To see information about a UTXO, which includes inscriptions inside it, do:

curl -s -H "Accept: application/json" 'http://0.0.0.0:80/output/bc4c30829a9564c0d58e6287195622b53ced54a25711d1b86be7cd3a70ef61ed:0'

Which returns:

{
  "value": 10000,
  "script_pubkey": "OP_PUSHNUM_1 OP_PUSHBYTES_32 156cc4878306157720607cdcb4b32afa4cc6853868458d7258b907112e5a434b",
  "address": "bc1pz4kvfpurqc2hwgrq0nwtfve2lfxvdpfcdpzc6ujchyr3ztj6gd9sfr6ayf",
  "transaction": "bc4c30829a9564c0d58e6287195622b53ced54a25711d1b86be7cd3a70ef61ed",
  "sat_ranges": null,
  "inscriptions": [
    "6fb976ab49dcec017f1e201e84395983204ae1a7c2abf7ced0a85d692e442799i0"
  ]
}

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