getTransaction

Returns information about a Transaction given a hash or block identifier.

Usage

import { publicClient } from './client'
 
const transaction = await publicClient.getTransaction({ 
  hash: '0x4ca7ee652d57678f26e887c149ab0735f41de37bcad58c9f6d3ed5824f15b74d'
})
/**
 * {
 *  blockHash: '0xaf1dadb8a98f1282e8f7b42cc3da8847bfa2cf4e227b8220403ae642e1173088',
 *  blockNumber: 15132008n,
 *  from: '0xf39fd6e51aad88f6f4ce6ab8827279cfffb92266',
 *  ...
 * }
 */

Returns

Transaction

The transaction information.

Parameters

hash (optional)

• Type: '0x${string}'

Get information about a transaction given a transaction hash.

const transaction = await publicClient.getTransaction({
  hash: '0x4ca7ee652d57678f26e887c149ab0735f41de37bcad58c9f6d3ed5824f15b74d'
})

blockHash (optional)

• Type: '0x${string}'

Get information about a transaction given a block hash (and index).

const transaction = await publicClient.getTransaction({
  blockHash: '0x4ca7ee652d57678f26e887c149ab0735f41de37bcad58c9f6d3ed5824f15b74d', 
  index: 0
})

blockNumber (optional)

• Type: '0x${string}'

Get information about a transaction given a block number (and index).

const transaction = await publicClient.getTransaction({
  blockNumber: 69420n, 
  index: 0
})

blockTag (optional)

• Type: 'latest' | 'earliest' | 'pending' | 'safe' | 'finalized'

Get information about a transaction given a block tag (and index).

const transaction = await publicClient.getTransaction({
  blockTag: 'safe', 
  index: 0
})

index (optional)

• Type: number

An index to be used with a block identifier (number, hash or tag).

const transaction = await publicClient.getTransaction({
  blockTag: 'safe',
  index: 0
})

Example

Check out the usage of getTransaction in the live Fetching Transactions Example below.

JSON-RPC Method

eth_getTransactionByHash