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Other

The commands in the Other group provide useful miscellaneous features.

  • chifra explore provides a quick way to open the configured blockchain explorer,
  • ethslurp (an older tool) allows you call extract data from Etherscan.

To the right is a list of commands in this group. Click on a command to see its full documentation.

Note: Some of these tools, such as ethslurp, require an API key. Follow these instructions to add a key to your config.

chifra explore

chifra explore opens Etherscan (and other explorers – including our own) to the block identifier, transaction identifier, or address you specify. It’s a handy (configurable) way to open an explorer from the command line, nothing more.

Purpose:
  Open a local or remote explorer for one or more addresses, blocks, or transactions.

Usage:
  chifra explore [flags] [terms...]

Arguments:
  terms - one or more address, name, block, or transaction identifier

Flags:
  -l, --local    open the local TrueBlocks explorer
  -g, --google   search google excluding popular blockchain explorers
  -h, --help     display this help screen

Data models produced by this tool:

  • none

Links:

chifra slurp

chifra slurp is the first tool we built in the Ethereum space. It even has its own website.

While it’s useful, it has two shortcomings. First, it is fully centralized, pulling its data from http://etherscan.io. Second, is that it does not report every transaction for a given account. This is actually a shortcoming with Etherscan. It’s too complicated to explain here, but see our blog.

While chifra slurp has its shortcomings, it does provides some nice features. You may use it to pull any transaction initiated by an EOA for example or to explore mining rewards. Visit the above referenced website for more information.

Purpose:
  Fetch data from Etherscan and other APIs for any address.

Usage:
  chifra slurp [flags] <address> [address...] [block...]

Arguments:
  addrs - one or more addresses to slurp from Etherscan (required)
  blocks - an optional range of blocks to slurp

Flags:
  -t, --types strings   which types of transactions to request
                        One or more of [ ext | int | token | nfts | 1155 | miner | uncles | withdrawals | some | all ]
  -p, --appearances     show only the blocknumber.tx_id appearances of the exported transactions
  -a, --articulate      articulate the retrieved data if ABIs can be found
  -S, --source string   the source of the slurped data
                        One of [ etherscan | key ] (default "etherscan")
  -U, --count           for --appearances mode only, display only the count of records
  -s, --sleep float     seconds to sleep between requests (default 0.25)
  -H, --ether           specify value in ether
  -w, --raw             report JSON data from the source with minimal processing
  -o, --cache           force the results of the query into the cache
  -D, --decache         removes related items from the cache
  -x, --fmt string      export format, one of [none|json*|txt|csv]
  -v, --verbose         enable verbose output
  -h, --help            display this help screen

Notes:
  - An address must be either an ENS name or start with '0x' and be forty-two characters long.
  - Portions of this software are Powered by Etherscan.io APIs.
  - The withdrawals option is only available on certain chains. It is ignored otherwise.
  - If the value of --source is key, --types is ignored and only appearances or counts are returned.

Data models produced by this tool:

Links:

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