eth_getTransactionCount

Returns the number of transactions sent from an address.

Parameters

• DATA, 20 Bytes - address.

• QUANTITY|TAG - integer block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", see the default block parameter.

params: [
    '0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f',
    'latest' // state at the latest block
]

Returns

QUANTITY - integer of the number of transactions send from this address.

Request

web3.js

const Web3 = require("web3");

async function main() {

	const Web3 = require('web3')
        const rpcURL = '1DLT-IP-ADDRESS' // Your RPC URL goes here
        const web3 = new Web3(rpcURL)
	
	// Query the blockchain (replace example parameters)
    	const count = await web3.eth.getTransactionCount({
	    data: '0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f',
	    tag: 'latest',
	  }); 
    
	// Print the output to console
	console.log(count);
   }

main();

ethers.js

const { ethers } = require("ethers");
async function main() {
 
    // Initialize an ethers instance
    const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider("1DLT-IP-ADDRESS");
       
   // Query the blockchain (replace example parameters)
    const count = await provider.getTransactionCount({
        data: '0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f',
        tag: 'latest',
   }); 
   
   // Print the output to console
   console.log(count);
   }

main()

Curl

curl https://eth-mainnet.alchemyapi.io/v2/your-api-key \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_getTransactionCount","params":["0xc94770007dda54cF92009BFF0dE90c06F603a09f","latest"],"id":0}'

Result

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 0,
  "result": "0x219"
}