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# Esplora - Electrs backend API
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# Mempool - Electrs backend API
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A block chain index engine and HTTP API written in Rust based on [romanz/electrs](https://github.com/romanz/electrs).
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A block chain index engine and HTTP API written in Rust based on [romanz/electrs](https://github.com/romanz/electrs) and [Blockstream/electrs](https://github.com/Blockstream/electrs).
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Used as the backend for the [Esplora block explorer](https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora) powering [blockstream.info](https://blockstream.info/).
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Used as the backend for the [mempool block explorer](https://github.com/mempool/mempool) powering [mempool.space](https://mempool.space/).
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API documentation [is available here](https://github.com/blockstream/esplora/blob/master/API.md).
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API documentation [is available here](https://mempool.space/docs/api/rest).
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Documentation for the database schema and indexing process [is available here](doc/schema.md).
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Install Rust, Bitcoin Core (no `txindex` needed) and the `clang` and `cmake` packages, then:
See [electrs's original documentation](https://github.com/romanz/electrs/blob/master/doc/usage.md) for more detailed instructions.
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Note that our indexes are incompatible with electrs's and has to be created separately.
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The indexes require 610GB of storage after running compaction (as of June 2020), but you'll need to have
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The indexes require 1.3TB of storage after running compaction (as of October 2023), but you'll need to have
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free space of about double that available during the index compaction process.
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Creating the indexes should take a few hours on a beefy machine with SSD.
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To deploy with Docker, follow the [instructions here](https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora#how-to-build-the-docker-image).
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Creating the indexes should take a few hours on a beefy machine with high speed NVMe SSD(s).
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### Light mode
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-`--electrum-hosts <json>` - a json map of the public hosts where the electrum server is reachable, in the [`server.features` format](https://electrumx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/protocol-methods.html#server.features).
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-`--electrum-announce` - announce the electrum server on the electrum p2p server discovery network.
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See `$ cargo run --release --bin electrs -- --help` for the full list of options.
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See `$ cargo run --bin electrs -- --help` for the full list of options.
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