Overview - Tools you need to work with Chainbase
- A free account at Chainbase with an API key.
- An IDE. Our examples are shown in JavaScript, you can use VS Code as your IDE for example.
- A token address as your input.
Step 1: Set up a free account at Chainbase
To better leverage the ability that Chainbase provides, you can register here for a free account and access to different APIs and data cloud. After logging into Chainbase, visit the dashboard to get an overview. Create a new project in the console and get an API key.
Step 2: Write script using Chainbase API
- Using
fetch
in JavaScript.
- Using
axios
in JavaScript. You need to installaxios
usingnpm install axios --save
in the terminal first.
Step 3: Print the token price
Chainbase API Get token price takes the chain id and the contract address of a certain ERC20 token as parameters, and returns the price of that token. To get data printed, run commandnode <filename>.js
in the terminal. In this case, the return data looks as follows. Note that updated_at
indicates the GMT time when you query the data, which may vary accordingly.