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eth_estimateGas RPC Method

The API credit value for this method is 10 . To learn more about API credits and each method's value, visit the API Credits page.

Parameters:

  1. transaction - object - The transaction call object:
  2. from - string - (optional) The address from which the transaction is sent

    to - string - The address to which the transaction is addressed

    gas - integer - (optional) The integer of gas provided for the transaction execution

    gasPrice - integer - (optional) The integer of gasPrice used for each paid gas encoded as hexadecimal

    value - integer - (optional) The integer of value sent with this transaction encoded as hexadecimal

    data - string - (optional) The hash of the method signature and encoded parameters. For more information, see the Contract ABI description in the Solidity documentation.

Returns:

  1. quantity - The estimated amount of gas used

Code Examples:

curl http://sample-endpoint-name.network.quiknode.pro/token-goes-here/ \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"method":"eth_estimateGas","params":[{"from":"0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601","value":"0x186a0"}],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
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