Introduction

Covalent provides a unified API to bring full transparency and visibility to assets across all blockchain networks including Blockchain’s Network(s).

To get started, sign up for an API Key.

JSON support CSV support
Developer Mode Analyst Mode

The Covalent API is RESTful and offers the following out-of-the-box for Blockchain:

Covalent API
Response formats JSON and CSV
Real time response 2 blocks
Batch response 30 minutes
Request volume limit None
Request rate limit 5 requests per second
Base URL https://api.covalenthq.com/v1/
Networks & chain_id Network(s) - 0000
Supported Endpoints Class A Universal
- Balances
- Transactions
- Transfers
- Token Holders
- Log Events (Contract Address)
- Log Events (Topic Hash)

Try the supported endpoints directly in your browser from our API Reference or use the following code examples. The JSON response format is the same for all endpoints:

❴ 
    "data": ..., 
    "error": false,
    "error_message": null,
    "error_code": null
❵

Curl

curl -X GET "https://api.covalenthq.com/v1/{chain_id}/address/{address}/balances_v2/?key={YOUR API KEY}" -H "Accept: application/json"

JavaScript

const APIKEY = 'YOUR API KEY';
const baseURL = 'https://api.covalenthq.com/v1'
const blockchainChainId = '1'
const demoAddress = '0xFEC4f9D5B322Aa834056E85946A32c35A3f5aDD8'

async function getWalletBalance(chainId, address) {
    const url = new URL(`${baseURL}/${chainId}/address/${address}/balances_v2/?key=${APIKEY}`);
    const response = await fetch(url);
    const result = await response.json();
    const data = result.data;
    console.log(data)
    return data;
}

// Example address request
getWalletBalance(blockchainChainId, demoAddress);

Python

import requests

API_KEY = 'YOUR API KEY'
base_url = 'https://api.covalenthq.com/v1'
blockchain_chain_id = '1'
demo_address = '0xFEC4f9D5B322Aa834056E85946A32c35A3f5aDD8'

def get_wallet_balance(chain_id, address):
    endpoint = f'/{chain_id}/address/{address}/balances_v2/?key={API_KEY}'
    url = base_url + endpoint
    result = requests.get(url).json()
    data = result["data"]
    print(data)
    return(data)


# Example address request
get_wallet_balance(blockchain_chain_id, demo_address)

 

Use Cases

The Covalent API supports a broad range of Web3 data use cases including:

Gaming DeFi KYC NFT
Gaming DeFi Taxes KYC NFTs
Wallets Dashboards On-Chain Forensics DAO
Wallets Dashboards On-Chain Forensics DAO Data
Trading Predictions Governance Pricing
DEXs & Trading Predictive Analytics Governance Pricing

Check out our collection of ready-to-ship Code Templates you can use immediately to build Web3 data-powered dApps.

 

Resources

Here are some additional resources to help you get started with the Covalent API:

 

About Covalent

Covalent provides the industry-leading Unified API bringing visibility to billions of Web3 data points. Developers use Covalent to build exciting multi-chain applications like crypto wallets, NFT galleries, and investor dashboard tools utilizing data from most major blockchains. Covalent is trusted by a community of 15,000+ developers and powers data for hundreds of applications including 0x, Zerion, Rainbow Wallet, Rotki, Bitski and others.

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Last modified: March 7, 2022: operator block (bcd13f8)