Is there something equivalent to w3.eth.getTransaction(txHash), for Substrate based chains using python?
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Could you select an answer if any one of them answers your question?– aurexav ♦Commented Sep 8, 2022 at 13:43
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Transaction hashes have a different meaning in Polkadot than in Ethereum.
Ethereum TX hashes uniquely identify a transaction in a Block.
TX hashes in Polkadot are not necessarily unique. They are calculated from the function name and its argument values. So they identify a Transaction regardless of whether it's inside a block or not.
Many Polkadot Transactions will therefore share the same hash.
Transactions in Polkadot are identified by their block-number and the index that they have in that block. For example #11831228-2 is transaction 2 in Block 11831228.
Have a look at py-substrate-interface which has an example on how to list the extrinsics of a block.
answered Aug 30, 2022 at 14:53
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There is indeed as far as I know no index available to lookup extrinsic by its hash in the Substrate RPC. You will need a third-party indexer for that– ArjanCommented Sep 8, 2022 at 18:29