eth_getTransactionCount RPC Method

Parameters

address

string

REQUIRED

The address from which the transaction count to be checked

blockNumber

string

REQUIRED

The block number as a string in hexadecimal format or tags. The supported tag values include earliest for the earliest/genesis block, latest for the latest mined block, pending for the pending state/transactions, safe for the most recent secure block, and finalized for the most recent secure block accepted by more than 2/3 of validators. safe and finalized are only supported on Ethereum, Gnosis, Arbitrum, Arbitrum Nova, and Avalanche C-chain

Returns

result

The integer of the number of transactions sent from an address encoded as hexadecimal

Request

curl https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/ \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"method":"eth_getTransactionCount","params":["0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9", "latest"],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'

require 'eth'

client = Eth::Client.create 'https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/'
payload = {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "eth_getTransactionCount",
    "params": ["0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9", "latest"],
    "id": "1"
}

response = client.send(payload.to_json)
puts response

import { ethers } from "ethers";
(async () => {
  const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider("https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/");
  const txCount = await provider.getTransactionCount(
    "0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9",
    "latest"
  );
  console.log(txCount);
})();

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var raw = JSON.stringify({
  "method": "eth_getTransactionCount",
  "params": [
    "0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9",
    "latest"
  ],
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
});

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: myHeaders,
  body: raw,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

import requests
import json

url = "https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/"

payload = json.dumps({
  "method": "eth_getTransactionCount",
  "params": [
    "0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9",
    "latest"
  ],
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

require "uri"
require "json"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request.body = JSON.dump({
  "method": "eth_getTransactionCount",
  "params": [
    "0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9",
    "latest"
  ],
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
})

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

from web3 import Web3, HTTPProvider
w3 = Web3(HTTPProvider('https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/'))
print (w3.eth.get_transaction_count('0x8D97689C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9', 'latest'))

import { Core } from '@quicknode/sdk'

const core = new Core({
  endpointUrl: "https://docs-demo.quiknode.pro/",
})

core.client
    .getTransactionCount({
      address: '0xD10E24685c7CDD3cd3BaAA86b09C92Be28c834B6',
    })
    .then(res => console.log(res))

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x23"
}

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