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How to get events

Prerequisites​

Before getting started, make sure you have the following ready:

  • Node v.14+
  • NPM

Step 1: Setup Blocklens​

First register your Blocklens account and get your Blocklens API Key.

Once you have your Blocklens API Key, install the Blocklens SDK in your project.

npm i blocklens-sdk

Step 2: Get events​

In order to get events, Blocklens provides you a getEvents endpoint to do so.

import Blocklens from "blocklens-sdk";

const blocklens = new Blocklens();
blocklens.init({ apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY" });

const runApis = async () => {
  const response = await blocklens.ETH_MAINNET.getEvents();
  console.log(response);
};

runApis();

Step 3: Run the script​

ts-node index.ts

In your terminal, you should see the following JSON response with the data: In your terminal, you should see the following JSON response with the data blocks:

{
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 20,
  "cursor": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6MTgyNjY5ODgwMDYzMDAwMTYwLCJwYWdlIjoxLCJpYXQiOjE2OTcwNjM4Mjd9.6M0Y82IEEjCr9L7KT9dbJXUgsh3SX9mf66lUW0mVfKc",
  "total_items": 1,
  "data": [
    {
      "tx_hash": "0xf23c1149295fab207cbc5f800207f626a97f3bd17cb4457cdc05665192f91612",
      "tx_index": 71,
      "contract_address": "0xD850942eF8811f2A866692A623011bDE52a462C1",
      "block_hash": "0x7fa3d2c64c15a89b9a6c7a4261d6a25e7f3ba2e6992184a80f73a2ade5f61ff0",
      "block_number": 18266988,
      "timestamp": 1696299599,
      "log_index": 192,
      "data": "0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d41bd4d600",
      "topic0": "0x8c5be1e5ebec7d5bd14f71427d1e84f3dd0314c0f7b2291e5b200ac8c7c3b925",
      "topic1": "0x0000000000000000000000003849d528e85bd6ab129155e29d86156d27a8ab4a",
      "topic2": "0x000000000000000000000000ef2f9b48d7ec80440ab4573df1a2abdbe06d3f60",
      "topic3": null,
      "removed": "false"
    }
  ]
}

Congratulations 🥳 you just found the get events on multiple chains with only a few lines of code using the Blocklens Wallet API!

API Reference​

If you want to know more details on the endpoint and optional parameters, check out:

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