ethereum-analysis-tool

Python library to extract data from go-ethereum local LevelDB for its analysis with pandas.

Environment set up Ubuntu 16.04

Instructions for the environment set up on an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine.

Download and install the stable version of go-ethereum

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

Install pre-requisites for ethereum Python libraries and Solidity environment

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential automake pkg-config libtool libffi-dev libgmp-dev libyaml-cpp-dev solc git python3-tk

Create a Python virtual environment

sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev python3-pip
sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pip
sudo -H pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv ethereum-analysis-tool
source ethereum-analysis-tool/bin/activate

Download and install ethereum-analysis-tools

sudo apt-get install git
pip install git+https://github.com/carlesperezj/ethereum-analysis-tool.git
cd ethereum-analysis-tool
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Install optional libraries for Pandas and Jupyter notebooks

sudo apt-get install pandoc
sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex

Obtain a database to analyse

Execute geth on the testnet and wait for synchronisation

geth --rinkeby --datadir "/home/ethereum/eth-rinkeby/" &> rinkeby.log

Start Jupyter

jupyter notebook