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How to track your ETH transactions

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Christoph Mussenbrock edited this page Apr 27, 2016 · 6 revisions

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Each site providing tracking mechanisms have their own layout and their own style - the choice of which site to use will be very much down to personal preference. In the case of Etherscan & Etherchain they offer their own API.

  • Etherscan | Etherscan API
    They support both GET/POST requests and a rate limit of 300 request/min or 5 requests/sec Etherscan also offers a very convenient function: If you register at the site, you can watch your personal accounts and get an email notification if any transaction is recorded involving one of your accounts.

  • Etherchain | The etherchain API
    The etherchain API is free to use. If someone abuses the API they will introduce a rate limiting system. The API is still in Beta, they recommend that you do not build applications that fully rely on it. The API endpoint is CORS enabled.

    Special feature: You can display the complete program execution of every contract invocation step by step. Very usefull for debugging (if a call to a contract doesn't succeed).

  • Ether Camp
    Ether.camp offers a very elaborate user interface to explore the data structures of a contract. A possible use case for this is checking whether you own a specific token. Just enter the address of the token, then open the balanceOf data structure and search for your accounts address.

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