# blockstream
A python 3 wrapper class for blockstream.info's Bitcoin block explorer API
Written in Python 3
Docs: https://github.com/pasquantonio/blockstream/blob/master/docs.md
Block explorer: https://blockstream.info
API Reference: https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora/blob/master/API.md
## Install
```
pip install blockstream
```
if not in a python3 virtualenv make sure to use python3
```
pip3 install blockstream
```
Also install requests (until I figure out how to make it automatically include this)
```
pip install requests
```
## Usage
```python
from blockstream import blockexplorer
# get transaction by id
tx_id = '56a5b477182cddb6edb460b39135a3dc785eaf7ea88a572052a761d6983e26a2'
tx = blockexplorer.get_transaction(tx_id)
# get address data
address = '1Bgut7QkwZS6pGyCi6CHeFkNN4Z5DzGP7P'
addr_info = blockexplorer.get_address(address)
```
## Examples
Reference examples.py to see each method in use