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 token holders
Chainbase API Get top token holders takes the chain id and the contract address of a certain ERC20 token as parameters, and returns the top holders of that token. You can also set the parameterspage
and limit
to do the pagination and get top holders.
To get data printed, run command node <filename>.js
in the terminal. In this case, the return data looks as follows by Apr. 4th, 2023.