TypeError: ethers.WebSocketProvider is not a constructor

[pixelpawnshop]

Hello ethers community Im new here I hope you can help me out on this one.

I try to websocket stream events using WebSocketProvider. This is my code:

const ethers = require("ethers");
const wssUrl = "URL";

async function main() {
    const provider = new ethers.WebSocketProvider(wssUrl);

    provider.on('pending', async (tx) => {
        const txnData = await provider.getTransaction(tx);
        console.log("Tx: ", txnData);
    });
}

main();

Works perfectly fine on newest ethers version but I would like to use 5.7.2. I get this error though when trying to execute on the mentioned version:

TypeError: ethers.WebSocketProvider is not a constructor

I appreciate any help thanks!

[ricmoo]

In v5, you need to use new ethers.providers.WebSocketProvider, since it was a monorepo, it required anchors on the root ethers object.

[pixelpawnshop]

Thanks ricmoo that solved the issue !