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Dandelion currently offer 2 different paths to get started:

For developers

Start prototyping your project instantly by choosing the API that better suits your need.

They are all offered in the vanilla flavour of the opensource projects developed by IOG, Emurgo and other developers from the community, so you won't need to change anything in case you decide to host them by yourself.

These are the links to github repositories and a brief description for all of them:

Cardano GraphQL

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Useful links:

Usage examples:

# testnets
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
--data-binary \
'{"query":"query cardanoDbSyncProgress {\n cardanoDbMeta {\n initialized\n syncPercentage\n }\n}\n"}' \
https://graphql-api.testnet.dandelion.link

Output example:

{"data":{"cardanoDbMeta":{"initialized":true,"syncPercentage":100}}}

Cardano Explorer

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Useful links:

Usage examples:

# testnets
curl -s https://explorer-api.testnet.dandelion.link/api/txs/last
# Mainnet
curl -s https://explorer-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/api/txs/last

Output example (REDACTED):

{
"Right": [
{
"cteId": "12703a0f201c9596d4fc256924f98e38d33dc23c4be1c7c3bc9bbc373ee3dbdf",
"cteTimeIssued": 1621292369,
"cteAmount": {
"getCoin": "541898740"
}
},
{
"cteId": "f7f0be9988551b5179b143444f67215a06ef9794f3ed9e6f58a1b067db37f0a1",
"cteTimeIssued": 1621292297,
"cteAmount": {
"getCoin": "1019242"
}
},
...
]
}

Cardano Submit

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Useful links:

Usage examples assuming you have a valid application/cbor file containing a signed transaction (in e.g., from cardano-cli or any other library) located at /tmp/cbor-tx:

curl -X POST \
--header "Content-Type: application/cbor" \
--data-binary @/tmp/cbor-tx \
https://submit-api.testnet.dandelion.link/api/submit/tx

Output example (a transaction id):

92bcd06b25dfbd89b578d536b4d3b7dd269b7c2aa206ed518012cffe0444d67f

Cardano Rosetta

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Useful links:

Usage examples:

curl -s -X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"network_identifier":{"blockchain":"cardano","network":"testnet"},"block_identifier":{"index":100}}' \
https://rosetta-api.testnet.dandelion.link/block

Output example:

{
"block": {
"block_identifier": {
"index": 100,
"hash": "4c81fe7ddb7ab93a1973d674f1920bb1be980efdb819ea0a92d25706e72809fc"
},
"parent_block_identifier": {
"index": 99,
"hash": "e8b65f34c3b562a996b6bf6a9109e279536ae7efbc714ae0526bd222e7288eb4"
},
"timestamp": 1564022216000,
"transactions": [],
"metadata": {
"transactionsCount": 0,
"createdBy": "ByronGenesis-0df4205606dcb8ad",
"size": 668,
"epochNo": 0,
"slotNo": 1130
}
}
}

Ogmios

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Useful links:

Usage examples:

echo '{ "type": "jsonwsp/request", "version": "1.0", "servicename": "ogmios", "methodname": "RequestNext", "args": {} }' \
| websocat --text -1 - wss://ogmios-api.testnet.dandelion.link

Output example:

{
"type": "jsonwsp/response",
"version": "1.0",
"servicename": "ogmios",
"methodname": "RequestNext",
"result": {
"RollBackward": {
"point": "origin",
"tip": {
"slot": 26925169,
"hash": "000a47936fed9bd76cfb52abcd9ab3172ba9118cff9b56767087544f295daba3",
"blockNo": 2591103
}
}
},
"reflection": null
}

PostgREST

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Useful links:

Usage examples:

# query available metadatums
curl -s "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/rpc/get_metadatum"
# query metadatum 20201210
curl -d metadatum=20201210 -s "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/rpc/get_metadata" | jq .
# query metadatum 42 for epoch 234-235 and limit results to 1
curl -s -d metadatum=42 -d epochs="{234,235}" "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/rpc/get_metadata?limit=1"
# query metadata entry number 15
curl -s "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/tx_metadata?id=eq.15"
# query pool metadata whose URL contains "repsistance"
curl -s "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/pool_meta_data?url=like.*repsistance*"
# query metadata entries for SPOCRA proposalId "80064c28-1b03-4f1c-abf0-ca8c5a98d5b9"
curl -s "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/tx_metadata?json->>ProposalId=eq.80064c28-1b03-4f1c-abf0-ca8c5a98d5b9"
# query metadata entries for the whole SPOCRA network
curl -s "https://postgrest-api.mainnet.dandelion.link/tx_metadata?json->>NetworkId=eq.SPOCRA"

Deploy your own Dandelion

If you already have Docker installed, you are almost done for using Dandelion in your local development environment. Please refer to [the official documentation][local-dandelion-deploy] to do so and do not hesitate to ask for support in our dedicated [Discord channel][discord-dandelion], we know operating systems, networks and cloud providers might differ a lot and give random problems! [discord-dandelion]: https://discord.gg/qDc3f9R7Ab [local-dandelion-deploy]: https://gitlab.com/gimbalabs/dandelion/kustomize-dandelion#local-deployment