Get Historical Total Nodes Count

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey='

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey=",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey="

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey=")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "status": "1",
  "message": "OK",
  "result": [
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-01",
      "TotalNodeCount": "14161"
    },
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-02",
      "TotalNodeCount": "13938"
    },
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-03",
      "TotalNodeCount": "13617"
    }
  ]
}

GET

api

Get Historical Total Nodes Count

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey='

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey=",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey="

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.etherscan.io/v2/api?apikey=")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "status": "1",
  "message": "OK",
  "result": [
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-01",
      "TotalNodeCount": "14161"
    },
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-02",
      "TotalNodeCount": "13938"
    },
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-03",
      "TotalNodeCount": "13617"
    }
  ]
}

Ethereum

This is a PRO endpoint, available to the Standard Plan and above.

{
  "status": "1",
  "message": "OK",
  "result": [
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-01",
      "TotalNodeCount": "14161"
    },
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-02",
      "TotalNodeCount": "13938"
    },
    {
      "UTCDate": "2026-02-03",
      "TotalNodeCount": "13617"
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

apikey

string

query

required

Enter your Etherscan API key, or set one up if you don't have one.

Query Parameters

chainid

string

required

Chain ID to query, eg 1 for Ethereum from our supported chains.

module

string

default:stats

required

Set to stats for this endpoint.

action

string

default:nodecounthistory

required

Set to nodecounthistory for this endpoint.

startdate

string

required

Starting date in yyyy-MM-dd format.

enddate

string

required

Ending date in yyyy-MM-dd format.

sort

string

Sort order either desc for the latest results first or asc for the oldest results first.

Response

200 - application/json

Successful response

status

string

1 if the request returned data, 0 otherwise. A status of 0 can indicate an error or a valid request that returned no records.

message

string

OK on success, otherwise an error description such as NOTOK. See common error messages.

result

object[]

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Get Historical Total Nodes Count

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Response