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I've been trying to figure out the best way to get the Net internal/trace transactions using python for a specific transaction hash.

I have read other topics on the forum that say that these are not recorded on the blockchain, so web3.py is not an option and you have to use a specialized kind of EVM to simulate a given transaction using the contract, I'm trying to avoid that, since it seems complicated on python...

I'm considering now using etherscan site Net Internal Transactions, I might resort to webscraping with beautifulsoup, but I don't know if anyone knows of a better alternative with python based api that does this (takes in a hash, returns internal transactions) that interacts with either etherscan/infura...

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  • You should definitely consider using Etherscan Developers API instead of scraping their website. In particularly this one (scroll down a bit in order to get to the 'Internal Transactions' part).
    – goodvibration
    Feb 28, 2020 at 7:15
  • thanks looks like a great option... I'll definitely have a look... Yes definitely a good option for this. Probably I'll use that
    – KALEB
    Feb 28, 2020 at 7:18

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I'm considering now using etherscan site Net Internal Transactions, I might resort to webscraping with beautifulsoup, but I don't know if anyone knows of a better alternative with python based api that does this (takes in a hash, returns internal transactions) that interacts with either etherscan/infura...

You should definitely consider using Etherscan Developers APIs instead of scraping their website.

In particularly this one (scroll down a bit in order to get to the Internal Transactions part).

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