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<div class="cwikmeta">{
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"title":"GETDATA",
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"related":["/protocol","/protocol/p2p/inv"]
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}</div>
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Requests information (generally previously announced via an INV) from a peer.
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A GETDATA request is formatted as a vector of INV data:
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| compact int | 4 bytes | 32 bytes | ... | additional objects |
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|---------------|-----------|------------|--|------|
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| [vector](/protocol/p2p/vector) size N elements of | element 1 type | element 1 hash | ... | element N type and hash
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### Type
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The type of the desired object. See [INV](/protocol/p2p/inv) for specific values
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### Hash
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The [hash identifier](glossary/hash__identifier) of the desired object. |