getNetwork - Stellar Developer Docs

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)

string

required

Network passphrase configured for this Stellar RPC node.

number

required

Stellar Core protocol version associated with the latest ledger.

string

(optional) The URL of this network’s “friendbot” faucet

Examples

Testnet Network Configuration
Futurenet Network Configuration

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

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
  }
}

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

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-futurenet.stellar.org/",
    "passphrase": "Test SDF Future Network ; October 2022",
    "protocolVersion": 20
  }
}

Using the Lab

You can check general information about the currently configured network on both Testnet and Mainnet using the getNetwork RPC method directly in the Stellar Laboratory. 👉 View Testnet getNetwork on the Lab

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​Result

​Examples

​Using the Lab

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Examples

Using the Lab