# eth\_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber

### Parameters

* `QUANTITY|TAG` - integer of a block number, or the string "earliest", "latest" or "pending", as in the [default block parameter](https://eth.wiki/json-rpc/API#the-default-block-parameter).

```javascript
params: [
    'latest',
]
```

### Returns

* `QUANTITY` - integer of the number of transactions in this block.

### Example

Request

```
curl https://rpc-mainnet.u2u.xyz \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber","params":["latest"],"id":0}'
```

Result

```javascript
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 0,
  "result": "0xee"
}
```