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I'm looking for a way to retrieve token decimals by programmatically. Let's take this Arcade (ARC) token. Token Decimals is 18.

It seems etherscan does't provide API for this purpose. Is there a way to retrieve token decimals somehow?

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I have checked the contract source code and it has a public variable decimals. This means the contract has a public function with the same name which returns the value.

EDIT: It seems Etherscan does not provide an API to access the token info, however I found another free service called ethplorer which provides it through HTTP : https://github.com/EverexIO/Ethplorer/wiki/Ethplorer-API?from=etop#get-token-info

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  • @lunc, can I retrieve this value via HTTP GET request?
    – Erik
    Commented Feb 11, 2018 at 19:34
  • Please see my edit.
    – lunr
    Commented Feb 11, 2018 at 19:36

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