# Accessing block info(JS, NodeJS), Beginner level

**by Delbypoc**

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This tutorial is for educational purposes only, I’m not responsible for any losses, damages, or other liabilities which may occur by using any info/code provided here(or anywhere else it is posted).

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I’m under no circumstances a Javascript professional (or a JS Ninja/Expert)!

The code is not production ready! (only for learning purposes)

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to access specific details from a block (for example transactions)

We will make use of the following package : ‘aiman’.

You can install it by using :

npm install aiman

We can initialize it with an HTTP provider like this:

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If we would like to access info for the 5 mil block, for example, we can declare a variable then create a promise:

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After solving the promise we will be able to access the following details:

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We can also access the transactions info which has the following details:

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In the next part I’m going to print the block hash + difficulty and all of the transactions hashes:

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The output for block 5.000.000 should look like this:

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Whole program ([**https://github.com/CognitiveProcessing/Matrix-AI-Network-Code-Snippets/blob/main/js/sendManTransaction.js**](https://github.com/CognitiveProcessing/Matrix-AI-Network-Code-Snippets/blob/main/js/sendManTransaction.js))

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For more documentation you can check [**dev.matrix.io**](https://www.matrix.io/blog/dev.matrix.io)

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