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Explorer REST API

Doge Soft Explorer REST API: public Dogecoin health, transactions, broadcast, wallet balances and UTXOs, DRC-20, chain data and Doginals. No indexer of your own required.

Live

Soft Explorer exposes the Doge Soft indexer as a plain REST API — the same reads the Explorer web app uses. All paths below are relative to https://explorer.dogesoft.io (API routes live under /api/…).

Access

Every endpoint on this page is public and needs no key. Call the API from your backend: browser requests from other websites aren't enabled by default. If your front end needs to call it directly from your own domain, send a developer access request and list your origins. Requests are rate-limited; back off on 429.

Health & indexing status

Endpoint	Auth	Description
GET `/api/health`	Public	Service health JSON: indexed height, chain tip and lag. Canonical health URL (`GET /health` redirects here).
GET `/api/explorer/status`	Public	Tip-aware indexing label for UIs: `latest_indexed_height`, `chain_tip`, `blocks_behind_tip`, derived `status` (`synced` / `syncing` / `unknown`), plus raw `db_status`.

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There is no public GET /api/status. Use /api/health or /api/explorer/status. Poll status before treating a “not found” as final during catch-up.

Transactions

Endpoint	Auth	Description
GET `/api/tx/:txid`	Public	Transaction detail (raw fields), including recent and mempool transactions.
GET `/api/explorer/tx/:txid`	Public	Same tx plus parsed `drc20_operations` and `inscriptions` arrays.
POST `/api/tx/broadcast`	Public	Broadcast a raw signed transaction. JSON body: `{"hex":"<raw hex>"}`. Abuse-gated (size ceiling + rolling rate limit); `429` when saturated.
GET `/api/tx/drc20-inscription/:txid`	Public	DRC-20 inscription / carrier status helper for a txid.

Prefer /api/explorer/tx/:txid whenever you need to confirm a DRC-20 transfer, listing, or move carrier actually changed hands — for example before a marketplace treats a listing as valid. See the marketplace flow.

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Broadcast notes: only hex that is already fully signed; Explorer does not sign for you. Errors from Core are sanitized before they reach the client. Do not scrape this endpoint as a free public relay — limits exist specifically to keep the node healthy for Soft products and integrators with real traffic.

Wallet & address reads

Unauthenticated address surface used by Explorer and Soft wallet clients:

Endpoint	Auth	Description
GET `/api/wallet/address/:address/balance`	Public	Confirmed DOGE balance for an address.
GET `/api/wallet/address/:address/utxos`	Public	Spendable UTXO set for an address.
GET `/api/wallet/address/:address/drc20`	Public	All DRC-20 balances held by an address.
GET `/api/wallet/address/:address/drc20/:tick/utxos`	Public	DRC-20 carrier UTXOs for one tick.
GET `/api/wallet/address/:address/history`	Public	Chronological confirmed activity — shape below.

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/api/wallet/address/:address/drc20 is not guaranteed to reflect a transfer the instant it confirms on-chain — the indexer settles its DRC-20 balance ledger asynchronously, and a tick or address it hasn't seen recently can lag. Don't treat an empty or unchanged balance response as proof a transfer failed; poll status and re-check.

{
  "address": "D8p...",
  "items": [
    {
      "txid": "a1b2...",
      "direction": "in",
      "counterparty_address": "D9q...",
      "block_height": 5822104,
      "amount_koinu": 420000000,
      "is_doginal": false,
      "confirmations": 142
    }
  ]
}

Amounts come back in koinu (1 DOGE = 100,000,000 koinu) — see terminology.

Explorer summary, recent, search & collections

Public Layer-1 browse surface (same data the Explorer homepage and detail pages render):

Endpoint	Auth	Description
GET `/api/explorer/summary`	Public	Dashboard summary — indexing block, approximate counts (DRC-20 ops, inscriptions).
GET `/api/explorer/recent`	Public	Recent interesting blocks / activity for the Explorer dashboard (short-cached).
GET `/api/explorer/activity-chart`	Public	Activity chart series for the Explorer UI.
GET `/api/explorer/search?q=…`	Public	Resolve `?q=` as txid, inscription id (`<txid>i<index>`), Dogecoin address, or block height — returns type + follow-up endpoint hints.
GET `/api/explorer/drc20/:ticker`	Public	DRC-20 token overview for a ticker.
GET `/api/explorer/collections`	Public	List Doginals collections.
GET `/api/explorer/collections/:collection_id`	Public	Collection metadata.
GET `/api/explorer/collections/:collection_id/items`	Public	Items in a collection.
GET `/api/explorer/inscriptions/:inscription_id`	Public	Inscription metadata / trail.
GET `/api/explorer/inscriptions/:inscription_id/content`	Public	Inscription content bytes (typed).
GET `/content/:inscription_id`	Public	Doginals/ordinals-style content URL at the host root (same content handler; frameable by the Explorer UI).

Chain endpoints

Public cryptoscope-style chain basics under /api/chain/*. The index is GET /api/chain with no trailing slash (RPC-backed where the node is source of truth; address totals from the indexed UTXO set):

Endpoint	Auth	Description
GET `/api/chain`	Public	Index of available chain endpoints.
GET `/api/chain/blockcount`	Public	Current block height (`{"blockcount":…}`).
GET `/api/chain/block?height=` or `?hash=`	Public	Block header + txid list (verbosity 1). Also accepts `?index=` as an alias for height.
GET `/api/chain/blockhash?height=`	Public	Block hash for a height.
GET `/api/chain/difficulty`	Public	Current difficulty.
GET `/api/chain/networkhashps` (alias `/hashrate`)	Public	Network hashrate (H/s).
GET `/api/chain/connectioncount`	Public	Peer connection count from the node.
GET `/api/chain/coinsupply` (alias `/supply`)	Public	Coin supply (cached / estimated while exact `gettxoutsetinfo` refreshes).
GET `/api/chain/address/:address`	Public	Address balance + lifetime received/sent from the chain UTXO index.

Governance

Collection, trait, and council organizations reconstructed from governance inscriptions. Full route list: Governance.

OP_RETURN index

Every OP_RETURN payload on Dogecoin, searchable by transaction, SHA-256 or 4-byte magic, under /api/explorer/opreturn/*. Full reference: OP_RETURN index.

Developer access request

Endpoint	Auth	Description
POST `/api/public/developer-request`	Public	Send an API access or partnership request to the team. Include `origins` if you need browser access from your domain. Required JSON fields: `contact_name`, `contact_email`, `project`, `use_case`. Optional: `urls`, `traffic`, `origins`, `hear`. Rate-limited; success returns `{"ok":true,"message":"request_sent"}`.