Hello guys!
It has been some months my working on some bash scripts
to get information of a transaction by its hash through bitcoin-cli
and parse the json data for that transaction in a more readable way.
(And also to learn some about bitcoin hashing).

As i wrote some wrappers for blockchain.com APIs, I wanted to get
more or less the same information for when quering for a transaction
or a block's worth of transaction.. I used functions from grondilu's
bitcoin-bash-tools..

Before trying the scripts, one needs have bitcoin-cli, openssl and jq
packages installed. Also, that is a very good idea to have bitcoin-cli
set with txindex=1 (otherwise you would need supply the block hash
for the transactions).

The scripts are at https://github.com/mountaineerbr/scripts/graphs/traffic

There are two scripts, one for getting block information and transaction
hashes in that block, and another to get transaction information by
transaction hash. For example:

Get info of a transaction by its hash id:

The output:


One can parse all transactions from a block using my two scripts, such as:

The problem is this script is slow to parse all transactions from a block, such
as in the previous example, because each transaction may require more
than a single RPC call to get extra information from previous UTXOs..

It took about 10 minutes to completely parsing all 1660 transactions from
block 400000 with my i7 (blockchain data  is in an external USD HDD)..
However, for few dozen transactions I reckon using that is quite feasible,
or maybe I just think that is an interesting script..

The scripts and more examples are at https://github.com/mountaineerbr/scripts/graphs/traffic

Cheers,The scripts are at https://github.com/mountaineerbr/scripts/graphs/traffic