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tail

To stream block data from a local/remote Cardano node in real-time, you can use tail command.

Once you start yaci-cli, you should see a prompt "yaci-cli:>"

1. Change background

For terminal with light background, use --color-mode option.

yaci-cli:> tail --color-mode light

2. Stream from a Cardano node

Use "tail" command to stream from a Cardano node. The tail command supports :-

a> Stream from a public network (mainnet, legacy_testnet, prepod, preview) using a known public relay

b> Stream from a public network using your own Cardano node

c> Stream from a private network

2.1 Stream from a public network using public relay

Specify the network name to stream using a public relay. The supported networks are mainnet / legacy_testnet / prepod/ preview

Default network: mainnet

yaci-cli> tail    

yaci-cli> tail --network legacy_testnet

yaci-cli> tail --network prepod

yaci-cli> tail --network preview

2.2 Stream from a public network using your own Cardano node

yaci-cli> tail --network mainnet --host <Cardano Node Host> --port <Cardano Node Port)

2.3 Stream from a private network

To stream data from a private network, provide host, port, protocol magic, known host, known port

Example:

yaci-cli:>tail --host localhost --port 30000 --protocol-magic 1 --known-slot 7055961 --known-blockhash f5753d8e7df48ed77eb1bc886e9b42c629e8a885ee88cfc994c127d2dff19641