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In Uniswap the function router02#swapExactETHForTokens(...) and other similar ones which do a swap, require a parameter for "mininum amount out".

function swapExactETHForTokens(
  uint amountOutMin,
  //.........

How is it usually calculated?

The same question goes in regards to the similar parameter - amountInMax which is used, for instance in

function swapTokensForExactETH(
   uint amountOut, 
   uint amountInMax,  // !
   //.....
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When calling the router contract to issue a swapExactEthForTokens swap, due to the fluctuation of the market, the router takes a parameter called AmountOutMin which is how much token you want at least from this transaction , so you could still get more tokens than the AmountOutMin tokens initially set , its just you cant receive less tokens than the amountOutMin specified or the contract will fail.

Same goes for amountInMax vice-versa.

You can get these arguments by calling getAmountsIn and getAmountsOut function for a given swap-token pair. These functions are given in uniswap, pancakeswap router as well.

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  • My question -- "how to calculate them in web3.js in order to pass values calculated by them futher into a swap function"?
    – Markus736
    Feb 28, 2022 at 12:24
  • getAmountsIn(..) and getAmountsOut(...) - how precisely would I call them? Can you give an example? I've not found any meaningful one.
    – Markus736
    Feb 28, 2022 at 12:26
  • Okay, for this you need pancakeswap's router address. Following code example in vanilla js using web.js: - window.web3 = new Web3(ethereum); await ethereum.enable(); const routerContract = new web3.eth.Contract(contractAbi, routerAddress); async function getAmountsOut(){ let result = await routerContract.methods.getAmountsOut(amountIn, path[]).call(); return result; }
    – Solidity Dev - Dithereum.org
    Mar 4, 2022 at 10:18

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