# getNetwork

General information about the currently configured network. This response will contain all the information needed to successfully submit transactions to the network this node serves.

This method will use `10` [Compute Units](https://docs.validationcloud.io/v1/about/billing).

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## Reference: [Here](https://soroban.stellar.org/api/methods/getNetwork)

## **Parameters**

`None`

## Returns

`friendbotUrl` (string) (optional) The URL of this network's "friendbot" faucet

`passphrase` (string) Network passphrase configured

`protocolVersion` (string) Protocol version of the latest ledger

```bash
// Result
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "friendbotUrl": "https://friendbot.stellar.org/",
    "passphrase": "Test SDF Network ; September 2015",
    "protocolVersion": "20"
  }
}
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="mainnet" %}

<pre class="language-bash"><code class="lang-bash"><strong>curl https://mainnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/&#x3C;YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
</strong>    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getNetwork"
}'
</code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="testnet" %}

```bash
curl https://testnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "method": "getNetwork"
}'

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}