Error creating contract after getting contract ABI from Etherscan API

Question

I am trying to get the contract ABI using the Etherscan API, and then create a contract instance and call a method using web3.js. I am able to get the ABI from Etherscan but when creating the contract object I am getting this error: "You must provide the json interface of the contract when instantiating a contract object." This is what my code looks like

let url = 'https://api.etherscan.io/api?module=contract&action=getabi&address=0x672C1f1C978b8FD1E9AE18e25D0E55176824989c&apikey=<api-key>';
request(url, (err, res, body) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  }
  let data = JSON.parse(body);
  let contract_abi = data.result;
  console.log(contract_abi)
  let contract_address = '0x672C1f1C978b8FD1E9AE18e25D0E55176824989';
  const contract = new web3.eth.Contract(contract_abi);
  const contract_instance = contract.at(contract_address);
  // Call contract method
})

When I console.log the contract_abi I see the ABI data. I've also tried creating the contract by doing

const contract = new web3.eth.Contract(contract_abi, contract_address)

Thanks!

Answer 1

looks like you have a typo, the address ends with a 'c' in the url, but not in let contract_address=...