Executes a new message call immediately without creating a transaction on the block chain.
This is one of the most commonly used API calls. It is used to read from the blockchain which includes executing smart contracts but does not publish anything to the blockchain. This call does not consume any Ether.
Starting from Geth 1.9.13,
eth_call
will check the balance of the sender (to make sure that the sender has enough gas to complete the request) before executing the call. This means that even though the call doesn't consume any gas, thefrom
address must have enough gas to execute the call as if it were a transaction.
Parameters
Object
- The transaction call objectfrom
:DATA
, 20 Bytes - (optional) The address the transaction is sent from.to
:DATA
, 20 Bytes - The address the transaction is directed to.gas
:QUANTITY
- (optional) Integer of the gas provided for the transaction execution.eth_call
consumes zero gas, but this parameter may be needed by some executions. NOTE: this parameter has a cap of 550 million Gwei per request. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you want to increase this limit.gasPrice
:QUANTITY
- (optional) Integer of thegasPrice
used for each paid gas. Note: most of our users (95%+) never set thegasPrice
on eth_call.value
:QUANTITY
- (optional) Integer of the value sent with this transactiondata
:DATA
- (optional) Hash of the method signature and encoded parameters. For details see Ethereum Contract ABI
QUANTITY|TAG
- integer block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending" (see the default block parameter), OR theblockHash
(in accordance with EIP-1898)
Note: the parameter is an object instead of a string and should be specified as: {"blockHash": "0x<some-hash>"}.
Learn more here.
Note
NOeth_call
has a timeout restriction at the node level. Batching multipleeth_call
together on-chain using pre-deployed smart contracts might result in unexpected timeouts that cause none of your calls to complete. Instead, consider serializing these calls, or using smaller batches if they fail with a node error code.
params: [
{
"from": "0xb60e8dd61c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f07233155",
"to": "0xd46e8dd67c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f07244567",
"gas": "0x76c0",
"gasPrice": "0x9184e72a000",
"value": "0x9184e72a",
"data": "0xd46e8dd67c5d32be8d46e8dd67c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f072445675058bb8eb970870f072445675"
},
"latest"]
]
Returns
DATA
- the return value of the executed contract.
Request
curl https://opt-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/your-api-key \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_call","params":[{"from": "0xb60e8dd61c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f07233155","to": "0xd46e8dd67c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f07244567","gas": "0x76c0","gasPrice": "0x9184e72a000","value": "0x9184e72a","data": "0xd46e8dd67c5d32be8d46e8dd67c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f072445675058bb8eb970870f072445675"}, "latest"],"id":1}'
URL: https://opt-mainnet.g.alchemy.com/v2/your-api-key
RequestType: POST
Body:
{
"jsonrpc":"2.0",
"method":"eth_call",
"params":[{"from": "0xb60e8dd61c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f07233155","to": "0xd46e8dd67c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f07244567","gas": "0x76c0","gasPrice": "0x9184e72a000","value": "0x9184e72a","data": "0xd46e8dd67c5d32be8d46e8dd67c5d32be8058bb8eb970870f072445675058bb8eb970870f072445675"}, "latest"],
"id":1
}
Result
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": "0x"
}