# Get EVM Blocks

Paginated EVM blocks.

_Source: https://beta.taostats.io/docs/new/evm/get-evm-blocks_

_Last reviewed: 2026-10-07_

```http
GET https://api.taostats.io/v1/evm/blocks
```

Requires an API key in the `Authorization` header.

Paginated EVM blocks.

## Try it

Try this request in the browser on the HTML version of this page, or use the code samples below.

### Code samples

**cURL**

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  "https://api.taostats.io/v1/evm/blocks"
```

**JavaScript**

```js
const response = await fetch('https://api.taostats.io/v1/evm/blocks', {
  headers: {
    Authorization: '<YOUR_API_KEY>',
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
```

**Python**

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.taostats.io/v1/evm/blocks",
    headers={"Authorization": "<YOUR_API_KEY>"},
)
data = response.json()
```

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `block_number` | query | `integer (int32)` |  | Filter by exact block number. |
| `block_start` | query | `integer (int32)` |  | Block-number range start (inclusive). |
| `block_end` | query | `integer (int32)` |  | Block-number range end (inclusive). |
| `timestamp_start` | query | `integer (int64)` |  | Timestamp range start, Unix seconds (inclusive). |
| `timestamp_end` | query | `integer (int64)` |  | Timestamp range end, Unix seconds (inclusive). |
| `page` | query | `integer (int32)` |  | Page number (1-indexed). Default: 1. Bounded window: `(page − 1) × limit` must be below 1,000,000. Deep `OFFSET` paging is linear in the offset, so an uncapped `page` lets one request scan tens of millions of rows; a page past the window is rejected with a 400. Reach deeper history with this endpoint's range filters (`block_start`/`block_end`, `timestamp_start`/`timestamp_end`) rather than a larger `page`. |
| `limit` | query | `integer (int32)` |  | Results per page. Default: 50. Clamped into [1, 200] (out-of-range values are clamped, not rejected, matching the old API). |
| `order_by` | query | `string` |  | Column to order by: `block_number` (default) or `timestamp`. |
| `order_dir` | query | `string` |  | Sort direction: `asc` or `desc`. Default: `desc`. |

## Responses

### `200` — Paginated list of EVM blocks

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `data` | `array` | Yes |  |
| `data[].base_fee_per_gas` | `string` | Yes | Base fee per gas (decimal string). |
| `data[].difficulty` | `string` | Yes | Block difficulty (decimal string). |
| `data[].extra_data` | `string` | Yes | Extra data. |
| `data[].gas_limit` | `string` | Yes | Gas limit (decimal string). |
| `data[].gas_used` | `string` | Yes | Gas used (decimal string). |
| `data[].hash` | `string` | Yes | Block hash. |
| `data[].miner` | `string` | Yes | Miner address. |
| `data[].nonce` | `string, nullable` | Yes | Block nonce. |
| `data[].number` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | EVM block number. |
| `data[].parent_hash` | `string` | Yes | Parent block hash. |
| `data[].sha_3_uncles` | `string` | Yes | Uncles (sha3) hash. |
| `data[].size` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | Block size in bytes. |
| `data[].state_root` | `string` | Yes | State root hash. |
| `data[].timestamp` | `string` | Yes | Block time, ISO 8601 seconds precision (e.g. `2026-06-27T17:06:00Z`), matching the old API exactly. |
| `data[].total_difficulty` | `string` | Yes | Total chain difficulty (decimal string). |
| `data[].transaction_root` | `string, nullable` | Yes | Transaction trie root. |
| `data[].uncles` | `string, nullable` | Yes | Uncles data. |
| `pagination` | `object` | Yes | Pagination metadata appended to collection responses. `next_page` / `prev_page` are explicitly required+nullable in the OpenAPI spec: per `docs/api_standards.md` we emit `null` rather than omitting the field, so the SDK should model them as `Option`/nullable types that are always present in the response. **`total_items` is the exact number of matching rows** on every route (issue #992). It used to stop at 1,000,000, which reported a million transfers when finney holds 7,513,252 and a million events when the real figure is 981,179,110; the cap was removed on 29 Sep 2026 and nothing may reintroduce one — `crate::pagination::exact_count_sql` is the only count form, and `no_capped_count_reaches_the_api_surface` in `data-debug-scripts` fails the build if a capped one comes back. **`total_pages` is still bounded**, to `crate::pagination::max_reachable_page(per_page)`, because the `page` parameter is capped to a 1,000,000-row window: deep `OFFSET` paging reads every skipped row (24.7M rows / 36.6 GiB / 42 s measured on one endpoint, issue #413). So `total_pages` is exactly the last page this API will serve and `next_page` / `prev_page` stay coherent at the window edge, while `total_items` tells the caller how many rows there really are. History beyond the window is reached with each endpoint's range filters, not a larger `page`. |
| `pagination.current_page` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | 1-indexed page that produced the rows in `data`. |
| `pagination.next_page` | `integer (int32), nullable` | Yes | Next page number, or `null` if this is the last page. |
| `pagination.per_page` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | Number of items requested per page. |
| `pagination.prev_page` | `integer (int32), nullable` | Yes | Previous page number, or `null` if this is the first page. |
| `pagination.total_items` | `integer (int64)` | Yes | Number of items matching the query across all pages. This is the exact count — every matching row, however many there are. It is not bounded by `total_pages`, so a listing can legitimately report far more items than `total_pages × per_page`. |
| `pagination.total_pages` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | Number of pages at the current `per_page` that this API will serve: `ceil(total_items / per_page)`, capped at `ceil(1000000 / per_page)` because the `page` parameter only reaches into the first 1,000,000 rows. When the cap bites, `total_items` is still the true total and this is the last page a request can ask for; reach deeper history with the endpoint's range filters instead of a larger `page`. |

### `400` — Invalid query parameter

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `message` | `string` | Yes | Plain-english message describing the failure from the caller's perspective. |
| `status_code` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | HTTP status code (mirrored in the response status line for convenience). |

### `500` — Internal server error

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `message` | `string` | Yes | Plain-english message describing the failure from the caller's perspective. |
| `status_code` | `integer (int32)` | Yes | HTTP status code (mirrored in the response status line for convenience). |

Every request needs an `Authorization` header holding your API key — see [Getting started with the Taostats API](https://beta.taostats.io/docs/start-here/getting-started-with-taostats-api).