Questions tagged [web3js]
Javascript API and library for Ethereum To develop applications on Ethereum, you can use the web3 object provided by the web3.js library. Under the hood it communicates to a local node through RPC calls. web3.js works with any Ethereum node, which exposes an RPC layer. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API
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What is the difference between a transaction and a call?
What is the difference between a transaction and a call? In some interfaces, I can interact with contracts via calls or via transactions. What is the difference between the two, and can contracts also ...
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How to get contract internal transactions
I'd like to get the contract internal transactions like:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xd654bdd32fc99471455e86c2e7f7d7b6437e9179#internaltx
I'm using web3 API. Is there any way to do it? Where do ...
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How to programmatically detect and accept ETH and ERC20 deposits
I'm looking to replicate the functionality provided by cryptocurrency exchanges such as Kraken and Poloniex when it comes to depositing ETH and tokens. Namely:
Users can generate and send funds to ...
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How to get return values when a non view function is called?
I am writing below a simple contract which stores all results of questionnaires for each ID.
contract answer{
mapping(address => mapping(string => bool)) voters;
struct qList {
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How can a DApp detect a fork or chain reorganization using web3.js or additional libraries?
Take an example of a voting DApp. A user clicks on a vote button, then behind the scenes a transaction gets mined on the blockchain, and finally the DApp tells the user their vote has been recorded.
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How to call my contract's function using sendTransaction
This may be a very basic question, I don't know why but I am unable to find correct solution to how can I call my contract's method using sendTransaction. I have a transfer(address, uint256) function ...
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How do I retrieve the Voted events from TheDAO?
This question was asked by @Pablo Yabo in the comment section of the question How can I view The DAO proposals including the current voting status?.
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Infura web3 provider for Events (.get & .watch)
I am using infura for connecting to testnet/mainnet as my server side web3 provider.
This works for most requests and operations, but it does not seem to work for Events.
const allEvents = (event, ...
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Invalid JSON RPC response error for sendTransaction on Infura + Ropsten node + Truffle console
Calls work but transactions throw the error -
Error: Invalid JSON RPC response: ""
I am using web3 v0.19.0 & Truffle v3.4.9. Deploying contract using truffle,
truffle migrate --network ...
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What are the limitations to estimateGas and when would its estimate be considerably wrong?
web3.eth.estimateGas and JSON-RPC estimateGas can be used to see how much gas should be specified for a transaction, before crafting the transaction.
Since it is an estimate, are there any ...
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ecrecover from Geth and web3.eth.sign
I have tried to use ecrecover() to verify the signature of a message.
I have looked at lots of references here and elsewhere, like:
https://lab-blog.ey.com/2016/12/19/ecrecover/
How does one ...
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Can a contract listen to events of another contract?
I read that to listen to events you need to use web3.js. Are there other ways of doing it? Can a contract even somehow listen to events of another contract? Thanks!
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How to send ERC20 token using Web3 API?
I created some custom token in Ropsten testnet using this guide:
https://steemit.com/ethereum/@maxnachamkin/how-to-create-your-own-ethereum-token-in-an-hour-erc20-verified
I can send it to other ...
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What are Solidity events and how they are related to topics and logs?
I know that indexed arguments index the values for those arguments so that filtering will be faster.
But what are topics? And what are they used for?
I know that signature of an event is a topic. ...
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How do I parse the transaction receipt log with web3.js?
The event parser in web3 provides a nice parsing functionality for events, and I use it for logging all events to a file, but it's very difficult to use for looking at individual events for a ...
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What are effective techniques to encrypt/decrypt data stored in a smart contract?
Rather than sending and storing plain text in a smart contract, the use case objective is to encrypt first and then subsequently access the data and decrypt at the point of use.
What is the most ...
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How to properly create a raw transaction and sign it using web3 in browser
I want to create and sign a transaction in browser using web3. In order to create a raw transaction, I think I have to do something like this (hopefully you can fill the gaps of my knowledge)
var pk =...
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Can I unlock an account using JSON-RPC?
The only way I can work with ETH is through --rpc mode. Normally I would prefer to use the Python interface.
But I found myself in a situation where the RPC is very limited. For example, I can't ...
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Does Solidity's constant keyword do anything?
It seems that the purpose of function foo() constant {} is to indicate that a function does not change the contract's state. And yet, as it states here, the compiler doesn't actually enforce this. So ...
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How to build an Ethereum hot wallet for an exchange
I’m developing an exchange.
When a new user register on website we will create new eth wallet for them.
When they deposit USDT on their wallet how can I transfer that USDT amount to another address (...
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error: replacement transaction underpriced
Im trying to send a raw transaction using web3 to ropsten testnet and Im getting this error:
replacement transaction underpriced
where sometimes my tx works and sometimes I get this error.
my tx ...
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Is there a way to find an account's current transaction nonce?
I need to know my transaction nonce because I am doing fancy stuff with contract addresses (which are the keccak hash of my address + my transaction nonce). Is there a way to find this through the ...
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What are *C*, *E* and *S* properties in message call return object?
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var contract = web3.eth.contract(abiDefinition).at(address);
contract.test(value, gotResult);
function gotResult(error, result) {
if(!error) {
console.log(...
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Decode input data on transaction
I have an ABI and the input value of the transaction and want to know what function has been called on a contract and with what arguments (one or multiple of different types), preferably using geth, ...
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Swap for tokens with Bot Protection Enabled (BpEnabled)
!!Apology in advance for such verbosity!!
Background
I came across this BEP20 token (0xcc7a91413769891de2e9ebbfc96d2eb1874b5760) which had sufficient Liquidity added at TGE but bot protection was ...
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web3: How do I get past events of myContract.myEvent?
I use the following JS code to get notified of Solidity events and it works well for incoming new events:
myContract.myEvent().watch((error, result) => {
if (error)
console.log('Error in ...
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Is it a good practice to log an event every time I throw in Solidity?
In Solidity (0.3.2) I am aware that there is no way to throw specific exceptions. (Everything is an invalid JUMP error.) It seems beneficial to have a way to log specific errors. Does it make sense to ...
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Connecting the wallet of to your dApp and different Ethereum wallet types
How users can use connect their different wallets, like MetaMask, mobile wallets and hardware wallets with a dApp?
What wallets are supported?
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How to detect if an address is a contract?
I'm interested in knowing whether any particular address is a contract address or a standard address. There have been similar questions on the topic, but I'm not looking to detect whether an address ...
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Returning a struct and reading via Web3
I am storing data in my contract using a mapping of structs.
For examples sake, say I'm storing employee info (name/address/salary), mapped by their employee ID.
Via a web front-end, I'd like to be ...
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How to access the event log by knowing the contract address (web3)?
How can I access a log stored in one of the tx of the contract via web3?
Code example:
event newtest(string indexed name, uint indexed idlevel,string indexed multib, string objmulti, uint objnm);
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Deploy contract from NodeJS using web3
I'm trying to create and deploy a smart contract through NodeJS using web3, but it is not working as I get a "web3.eth.contract.new is not a function". Here is my code:
var web3 = require('ethereum....
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Why aren't Solidity sha3 hashes not matching what other sha3 libraries produce?
Solidity has a function named sha3 and I tested it with an empty string input. It is not matching what other sha3 libraries produce. I see contracts written by others using the same sha3 function ...
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Encoding/Decoding contract ABI data
How to encode and decode ABI data?
Can someone show me an example with web3js library?
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Unlocking accounts and making transactions in web3.js
This question is related to this one and this one. It also has a partial answer here and here.
In the third link the account is being unlocked for a period of time using web3.js:
web3.personal....
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How to read a private variable from a contract?
Given a contract, how can I find out the current value of one of its variables (as a dev, not from the context of another contract), if it's not public?
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How do I get the storage indices/keys?
I would like to explore the storage data of a contract. I have geth fully synched and I interact with it over RPC. There is the function "eth.getStorageAt(addr, index, block)" provided, but you need ...
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Can Solidity view/pure functions be arbitrarily complex?
Non-constant functions are limited in computational complexity by the block gas limit. I assume, but am not sure, that this does not apply to view/pure functions. Are view/pure functions in any way ...
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How can I reliably induce a blockchain fork for testing purposes?
I would like to reliably induce a fork on a private testnet so that I can test the behavior of off-blockchain code that interacts with contracts. (see related questions as to why I would want to do ...
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How to verify MetaMask account holder is the real owner of the address?
I'm making a dapp that will make calls to a Node.js server. I expect the user to have MetaMask installed and I want to verify that he is the real owner of the current address on MetaMask (i.e. ...
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Iterating over all public values of a mapping in web3
Let's assume we have the standard token contract with balances:
mapping (address => uint256) public balanceOf;
If I want to know balances of all addresses (who have ever transacted with the ...
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Who gets the fee from contract call?
Basically you don't need to pay fee for contract call, but if a contract method does lots of work, you need to add gas in contract call to prevent DoS attack like this:
contract.method.call({gas: ...
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How to update the web3 API version in geth?
I spent a couple of hours on upgrading web3 API to v0.15.3 in geth (on Mac OSX) with no effect. I installed the newest geth and it says:
web3.version
{
api: "0.13.0",
client: "Geth/v1.3.4/darwin/...
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How to get transactions by account using web3 js?
I'm sure this question was asked before, but I did not find any result that helped my problem.
How can I get the transactions (in and out) for a given account? I use nodejs and web3?
With this line ...
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How to convert string to bytes32 in web3js?
I have a contract with a public variable that's bytes32. If I enter the value 20160528 then it auto converts to bytes32. Is there anyway to convert it back from the nodejs terminal? I've been ...
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How do I know when I've run out of gas programmatically?
This keeps coming up on the gitter forums so I thought I'd ask and answer this question: How do you know when you've run out of gas?
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Error: The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount
I am using the below code to create the contact it give the error:
Error: The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount.
Code:
primaryAccount = web3.eth.accounts[0];
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How do I send the entire ether balance from one account to another account?
I'm trying to use web3 to transfer all (or as much as I can) of the balance of an account to another account. Here is the code I have so far:
var sender = web3.eth.accounts[0];
var receiver = web3....
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How to transfer ERC20 tokens using web3js
I've read some docs, run parity in docker container, and being
able to connect and get token balance of an account
const Web3 = require('web3'),
const web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('...
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New Ethereum Account with Infura
Can I create a new ethereum account using Infura like we do using web3.personal.newAccount();
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