I'm trying to figure out how to use bitcoin-cli effectively to request a list of 50 blocks.
As far as I am aware, bitcoin-cli getblock list does not work. Also how to best extract information out of the getblock output.
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You cannot as there currently no way in Bitcoin Core's RPC to get multiple blocks with one command. You will have to issue multiple getblock commands. If you use a JSON-RPC client programmatically, you can use JSON-RPC's batched requests in order to have to only send one JSON-RPC request to execute multiple RPCs and get the results back in one response.
As for how to extract the information, you will need a JSON parser to extract the information. You can use verbosity level 2 in order to get the transactions decoded as well instead of just their txids.
