eth_gasPrice

Get Gas Price

POSThttps://site1.moralis-nodes.com/:chain/:apiKey

Returns the current gas price in wei, which is the median gas price of the latest blocks. This value can be used to set the gas price for new transactions.

Note

Please refer to RPC schema page for more details on the RPC params and RPC response definitions of the RPC method.

PATH PARAMS

chainstringrequired

The blockchain to interact with.

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apiKeystringrequired

Your API key for authentication.

BODY PARAM

jsonrpcstringrequired

JSON-RPC version (typically 2.0).

idnumberrequired

The request identifier.

methodstringrequired

The JSON-RPC method being invoked.

paramsrpcArrayrequired

Parameters for the gas price request (empty for eth_gasPrice).

[]

Responses

Node.js

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install node-fetch --save
// add "type": "module" to package.json

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "eth_gasPrice"
  })
};

fetch('https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Python

# Dependencies to install:

# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

url = "https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY"

payload = {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "eth_gasPrice"
}
headers = {
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

cURL

curl --request POST \
     --url 'https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "eth_gasPrice"
}
'

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY"

  payload := strings.NewReader("{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"eth_gasPrice\"}")

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

  req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(res)
  fmt.Println(string(body))

}

PHP

<?php
// Dependencies to install:
// $ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://site1.moralis-nodes.com/eth/YOUR_API_KEY', [
  'body' => '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_gasPrice"}',
  'headers' => [
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

Response Example

200 Returns the current gas price in wei.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x3b9aca00"
}