Most Ethereum clients (nodes) provide an RPC (removeremote procedure call) interface though which other processes may interact with the node. For example, the eth_getBalance(address, [blockNum]) RPC call returns an address's balance at a given block. Further information and a full specification of the interface is presented here: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC. Use this tag for discussions of Ethereum's RPC features.
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Purposefully short intro to RPC, with little or no detail since it is more accurately and more currently discussed on provided link. Duplicating discussion here would be a mistake, I think.
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