How to Connect to Karura

It's easy to connect to your Karura infrastructure via RPC or WebSocket.

If you haven't already configured any Karura infrastructure, visit the Karura marketplace page to learn more about Blockdaemon's Karura options.

Once you have purchased your Blockdaemon Karura infrastructure, your Blockdaemon Technical Account Manager (TAM) will send you the necessary access credentials.

Note: These are one-time view, so make sure to copy them. In this guide, we will cover the following simple methods of connection to your infrastructure:

• Karura HTTP RPC Connection via cURL
• Karura Connection via Websocket 
• Karura Connection via Sidecar API 

Karura HTTP RPC Connection via cURL

Here's how you add your access credentials to a cURL request:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "YOUR_RPC_METHOD"}' \
https://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL/para-http-rpc 

• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon TAM
• Replace YOUR_RPC_METHOD with your chosen RPC method
• Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM

Karura Connection via WebSocket

Here's how you connect to Karura via Websocket:

wscat \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-c wss://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL/parachain

Connected (press CTRL+C to quit)
> {"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "YOUR_RPC_METHOD"}

• Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM
• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon TAM

Karura Connection via Sidecar API

Here's how you connect to Karura via Sidecar API

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
'https://YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL/parachain/YOUR_SIDECAR_ENDPOINT?auth=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN

• Replace YOUR_ENDPOINT_URL with the Endpoint URL sent by your Blockdaemon TAM
• Replace YOUR_SIDECAR_ENDPOINT with your chosen REST endpoint
• Replace YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN with the Auth Token sent by your Blockdaemon TAM