I'm trying to write a script that will use a public Ethereum address and get a list of all the transaction hashes. I'm using web3.py but the methods I see for getting transaction information use the transaction hash as an input. I'm trying to get a list of hashes for a given address. Do I need to search through each block to see if the address in every single hash? I thought there'd be some simple way to get all the transactions in a single method. Does such a thing exist?
gethdoesn't provide such RPC request because building index of address->transactions is compute intense and database hungry. the database is large enough so no "good to have" features are included.