Skip to main content
8 votes
Accepted

Get account transactions using Substrate API

Substrate indeed covers quite many use-cases, not just transferring coins from one account to another, and some of that complexity will leak through any API, even if there are specialized ones in the ...
wigy's user avatar
  • 375
6 votes

Get account transactions using Substrate API

No blockchain is designed to be able to easily get all transactions for an account, as this is a waste of storage for a normal syncing chain. Substrate provide the ability to run an Archive node, ...
Shawn Tabrizi's user avatar
  • 16.2k
5 votes

JSON-RPC getBlockHash Request

The JSON-RPC 2.0 parameters doesn't go in the header, they are part of the body. Here is a correctly-formatted body for a getBlockHash query - { "id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0&...
Ben Travers's user avatar
4 votes

Is that possible to implement bridge to send USDT from statemint to other parachains?

You don't need a bridge at all, Polkadot includes a message transport protocol for its parachains. I'd check out Subscan's XCM explorer to look at examples of asset transfers and how those ...
joepetrowski's user avatar
  • 2,975
3 votes

List of assets on Statemint

Using PolkadotJS you can get the list of assets with this script: const wsProvider = new WsProvider('wss://statemint.api.onfinality.io/public-ws'); const api = await ApiPromise.create({ ...
Alex Bean's user avatar
  • 5,757
3 votes

How we can Create Wallet / Generate address in polkadot

It depends on the chain. Most of the chains are using SR25519. Check https://github.com/polkascan/py-sr25519-bindings. Example: # you need to install py-sr25519-bindings first. import sr25519 from ...
AurevoirXavier's user avatar
3 votes

How to query transaction details by using the transaction hash on polkadot by using python

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 ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
3 votes
Accepted

How to determine which parameters are required when using substrate.query() to query a storage_function from polkascan's py-substrate-interface?

Update: The storage_function.get_param_info() helper function is introduced, see: https://github.com/polkascan/py-substrate-interface#type-information-about-how-to-format-parameters It is indeed a ...
Arjan's user avatar
  • 151
3 votes

How to solve the issue"Element "asset_id" of struct is missing in given value" when I send a token transaction

Are you sure you have the latest version of packages substrate-interface==1.2.2 and scalecodec==1.0.34? Because I can remember older versions of scalecodec don't have the 'signed_extensions' support ...
Arjan's user avatar
  • 151
3 votes

How to get the token balance(rmrk) by py-substrate?

from substrateinterface import SubstrateInterface ASSET_ID = 8 # RMRK.app ACCOUNT = '<<YOUR_ACCOUNT>>' substrate = SubstrateInterface(url='wss://statemine-rpc.polkadot.io') account_info ...
Artur Gontijo's user avatar
2 votes

Can generate an address by mnemonic with the sdk substrate-interface?

You need to provide the SS58 prefix to the create_from_mnemonic function to make it generate a Kusama address as opposed to a generic Substrate address: from substrateinterface import Keypair # 2 for ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
2 votes

Retrieve reason of fail substrate rpc call

exactly amount if to be accurate If by this you mean you are trying to drain your account to Zero, check ExistenceRequirement and how is the fee withdrawal handled in Substrate using the KeepAlive ...
TMichel's user avatar
  • 183
2 votes

How to obtain the staking amount for non-active validators?

I believe you will need to do a few queries here to get the data you want: Get all validator stash accounts from iterating over the Validators storage map Get all the controller accounts by mapping ...
Shawn Tabrizi's user avatar
  • 16.2k
2 votes

How do I best calculate angle differences when crossing the 360 axis? (Python)

I think you are in the wrong Stack Exchange :) But I don't think it's possible for anyone to answer without knowing the data source, e.g. is it a lateral inertial sensor that senses side-to-side ...
joepetrowski's user avatar
  • 2,975
2 votes
Accepted

How to determine what parameter to pass into substrate.query() to query a storage_function from polkascan's py-substrate-interface?

The call is complaining about you sending an integer. You will be getting an integer from get_block_number which you're passing in a block_hash field: block = substrate.get_block_number(hash) # this ...
forgetso's user avatar
  • 1,514
2 votes
Accepted

How to get the balance for a specific account using py-substrate

The query_map function queries multiple entries of a map. If you just want a single value, you can use query instead. Try the following on a local Substrate or Polkadot development node to see how it ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
2 votes
Accepted

How to convert ss58 address to a different parachain in py-substrate-interface

py-substrate-interface provides helper functions for that in the utils.ss58 namespace. Transforming an address from one chain-id to another can look like this: from substrateinterface.utils.ss58 ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
2 votes

Why do are some events in a block missing an extrinsic_idx?

Only the events in phase ApplyExtrinsic have an extrinsic index attached. Everything that runs before is from on_initialize hooks and everything afterwards from on_finalize. These always run in every ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
2 votes

How to start a local substrate node using python substrate interface

As you note in your question py-substrate-interface is just used to interface with a node, a node that is already running. If you are interested in discovering more about how to set up and run your ...
Alejandro Martínez's user avatar
2 votes

Pagination issues in py-substrate-interface

The easiest way to handle query_map is use it as an iterator instead of manual last-key tracking. For example all accounts of System::Account for Kusama: from substrateinterface import ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
2 votes

Historical Balance of Polkadot Accounts (python substrate)

Instead of getting all the events and adding up balances, you can directly query system.account(AccountId32) for the balance of the account/accounts at a specific block number. You are still required ...
ehpeeeye's user avatar
2 votes

Historical Balance of Polkadot Accounts (python substrate)

I agree with ehpeeeye, a very good approach would be to use the system.account storage function or leverage the features an indexer provides. The Substrate-ETL dataset would provide granular ...
Karim's user avatar
  • 21
1 vote
Accepted

Get a block based on timestamp from python substrate interface

You can use a binary search for this. There is no API which will give this to you without some kind of search on your side as blocks are not indexed by timestamp. You can also estimate the start of ...
Shawn Tabrizi's user avatar
  • 16.2k
1 vote
Accepted

How to submit a transaction form the root/sudo acount using python substrate interface

You need to have the Sudo pallet deployed, which is often the case in development networks. Then you can wrap the call in Sudo::sudo and sign it with the sudo key. Example of Alice being sudo and ...
Oliver Tale-Yazdi's user avatar
1 vote

Accessing historical data for validators from the API

Take a look into this tool substrate-api-sidecar, it makes easy to interact with blockchain nodes via API queries. Connect the tool into your local network or into Polkadot creating a .env file with: ...
Alex Bean's user avatar
  • 5,757
1 vote

Is that possible to implement bridge to send USDT from statemint to other parachains?

Like Joe is saying, you need to open HRMP channels and then send an XCM. You can see the actual XCM Joe referenced here: https://statemine.subscan.io/extrinsic/2978330-2?event=2978330-5 More info ...
Bruno's user avatar
  • 8,335
1 vote

How to subscribe the new pending transaction of polkadot in substrate python

I think what you mean is the author_pendingExtrinsics RPC call, so that would be something like: result = substrate.rpc_request("author_pendingExtrinsics", [])
Arjan's user avatar
  • 151
1 vote

JSON-RPC getBlockHash Request

import json # pip3 install websocket-client import websocket uri = 'wss://rpc.polkadot.io' ws = websocket.create_connection(uri) for block_number in range(11627380, 0, -1): print(block_number) ...
AurevoirXavier's user avatar
1 vote

Python substrate-interface discovering which params need to be passed into query function for parallel API?

You can use the storage_function.get_param_info() to get more information about the param types: storage_function = substrate.get_metadata_storage_function('AMM', 'Pools') param_info = ...
Arjan's user avatar
  • 151
1 vote

How to decode RPC results using Python's Scale library

Is there a specific reason why you manually want to decode raw SCALE-data? Because SCALE is without context, you need the exact type definition of the storage function and even specific runtime where ...
Arjan's user avatar
  • 151

Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible