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I know that in Ethereum, same addresses works across the network(mainnet and all testnets).

But I am looking to know if there are any chances to find out the network on which a contract is deployed by using its contract address because only relevant network will be having the data of contract stored.

Also how much reliable this approach can be?

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May be this is not the best solution but can be helpful for now:

set web3 provider for every testnet one by one and then try to get the size of the contract using following web3 call.

web3.eth.getCode(address [, defaultBlock] [, callback])

this returns the data if the address is a contract.

you may get the data from multiple chains. In this case you'll end up with multiple networks having code for same address.

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    seems reasonable
    – Aniket
    Mar 28, 2019 at 13:28
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You may try to find this address in https://etherscan.io/ on different networks and see where it has some code or non-zero ether balance:

Etherscan also has an API for this that you can use to automate such lookups.

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  • makes sense....
    – Aniket
    Mar 28, 2019 at 13:28

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