As part of Bitcoin Watch (http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/), a new feature provides a developer-friendly dump of a bitcoin block at the specified height.
GET parameters:
"h" - height of block to download
"json" - set to non-zero value, to enable application/json output rather than HTML output
Examples:
Dump block 72000: http://blk.bitcoinwatch.com/b?h=72000
Dump block 72000, with JSON: http://blk.bitcoinwatch.com/b?h=72000&json=1 (http://blk.bitcoinwatch.com/b?h=72000&json=1)
Thread #0204
New web service: obtain dump of bitcoin block NNNN
This sub-page of Bitcoin Watch shows the last 7 days worth of blocks, each block linking to expanded data:
http://blk.bitcoinwatch.com/
Superb! Thanks a lot.
That's kind of interesting as an upside-down bar chart of how many blocks were produced each day. The target is 144 blocks per day.