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In my Python web service, I'd like to confirm if a contract supports specific ABI (certain call methods). I am running get and communicating over JSON RPC.

What are steps to for this? I am guessing it's along the lines to use some RPC method to fetch contract code, decompile it and then check for presence of sha3 signatures of known methods.

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This is an old question that never got answered, but it can be easily done by accessing this web API: https://www.4byte.directory

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    Note that this only works for function signatures that are in that database. It allows self-submission and also scrapes etherscan for solidity sources
    – Tjaden Hess
    Jan 16, 2017 at 5:41
  • Agreed. Are there other sources? I can imagine a search algorithm that first tries 4byte, then etherscan, then whatever, but I would imagine that those two would provide nearly all available info. (That last is just a guess.)
    – Thomas Jay Rush
    Jan 17, 2017 at 17:54

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