net_peerCount - Validation Cloud

Returns number of peers currently connected to the client. This method will use 20 Compute Units.

Reference: Here

Parameters

None

Returns

QUANTITY - integer of the number of connected peers.

// Result
{
  "id":74,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x2" // 2
}

curl https://mainnet.avalanche.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>/ext/bc/C/rpc \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"net_peerCount","params":[],"id":74}'

curl https://fuji.avalanche.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>/ext/bc/C/rpc \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"web3_sha3","params":["0x68656c6c6f20776f726c64"],"id":64}'