Quick Start
Use the Alchemy provider plugin to interact with blockchains via APIs.
The ape-alchemy
plugin supports the following ecosystems:
- Ethereum
- Arbitrum
- Optimism
- Polygon
Dependencies
- python3 version 3.8 or greater, python3-dev
Installation
pip
via You can install the latest release via pip
:
pip install ape-alchemy
setuptools
via You can clone the repository and use setuptools
for the most up-to-date version:
git clone https://github.com/ApeWorX/ape-alchemy.git
cd ape-alchemy
python3 setup.py install
Quick Usage
First, make sure you have one of the following environment variables set (it doesn't matter which one):
- WEB3_ALCHEMY_PROJECT_ID
- WEB3_ALCHEMY_API_KEY
- WEB3___ALCHEMY_PROJECT_ID
- WEB3___ALCHEMY_PROJECT_ID
For example, to use both Arbitrum and Ethereum in the same session, you could set both WEB3_ARBITRUM_MAINNET_ALCHEMY_PRPJECT_ID
and WEB3_ETHEREUM_MAINNET_ALCHEMY_PRPJECT_ID
.
NOTE: If using non-Ethereum networks, take care to install the correct plugins, such as ape-arbitrum
, ape-optimism
, etc:
ape plugins install arbitrum
Then, either in your current terminal session or in your root RC file (e.g. .bashrc
), add the following:
export WEB3_ALCHEMY_PROJECT_ID=MY_API_TOKEN=<value-of-secret-key>
To use the Alchemy provider plugin in most commands, set it via the --network
option:
ape console --network ethereum:goerli:alchemy
To connect to Alchemy from a Python script, use the networks
top-level manager:
from ape import networks
with networks.parse_network_choice("ethereum:mainnet:alchemy") as provider:
...
Transaction Traces
If you are using a paid tier of Alchemy, you have access to both Geth and Parity style traces.
Parity traces are faster and thus are the ones uses in Ethereum receipts' show_trace()
method:
from ape import networks
alchemy = networks.provider # Assuming connected to Alchemy
txn_hash = "0x053cba5c12172654d894f66d5670bab6215517a94189a9ffc09bc40a589ec04d"
receipt = alchemy.get_transaction(txn_hash)
receipt.show_trace() # Prints the Transaction trace
To access the raw CallTree
, do:
from ape import networks
alchemy = networks.provider # Assuming connected to Alchemy
txn_hash = "0x053cba5c12172654d894f66d5670bab6215517a94189a9ffc09bc40a589ec04d"
call_tree = alchemy.get_call_tree(txn_hash)
To learn more about transaction traces, view Ape's transaction guide.
NOTE: If you require the Geth style traces, you still have access to them via the get_transaction_trace()
method and utilities from the evm-trace
library:
from evm_trace import CallType, get_calltree_from_geth_trace
from ape import networks
alchemy = networks.provider # Assuming connected to Alchemy
txn_hash = "0x053cba5c12172654d894f66d5670bab6215517a94189a9ffc09bc40a589ec04d"
receipt = alchemy.get_transaction(txn_hash)
root_node_kwargs = {
"gas_cost": receipt.gas_used,
"gas_limit": receipt.gas_limit,
"address": receipt.receiver,
"calldata": receipt.data,
"value": receipt.value,
"call_type": CallType.CALL,
"failed": receipt.failed,
}
trace_frame_iter = alchemy.get_transaction_trace(txn_hash)
call_tree = get_calltree_from_geth_trace(trace_frame_iter)