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Published inNov 2018
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Eric Traub
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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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Developing the /address/:address endpoint

Now, let's build the /address/:address endpoint and we'll use the getAddressData method inside of this endpoint. The /address/:address endpoint will be very similar to the /block/:blockHash and /transaction/:transactionId endpoints, so you shouldn't find it too challenging:

  1. The first thing that we want to do inside of the endpoint is to store the address in a variable:
app.get('/address/:address', function(req, res) {
const address = req.params.address;
});
  1. The next thing that we want to do is use the getAddressData method to get all of the data for the given address. In order to do that, we will add the following highlighted code to the endpoint:
app.get('/address/:address', function(req, res) {
const address = req.params.address;
bitcoin.getAddressData(address);
});
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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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