getSignaturesForAddress

Explore getSignaturesForAddress: Use Cases, Code Examples, Request Parameters, Response Structure, and Expert Tips

The getSignaturesForAddress RPC method retrieves a list of confirmed transaction signatures involving a specific account, ordered newest first. It’s the primary way to fetch an account’s transaction history on Solana.

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✅ Common Use Cases

• Wallet History Display recent transactions for a user’s wallet. For richer parsing, consider CoinVera’s Enhanced Transactions API.

• Activity Auditing Review all transactions tied to a particular smart contract or account.

• Targeted Lookup Locate a specific transaction when you only know the involved address.

• Local Indexing Build a custom transaction index for faster queries and analytics.

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🛠 Request Parameters

{
  "address": "<base58AccountPubkey>",  // Required
  "options": {                         // Optional
    "limit": <number>,         // 1–1000 (default 1000)
    "before": "<signature>",   // Fetch signatures before this one
    "until": "<signature>",    // Stop when this signature is reached (exclusive)
    "commitment": "processed|confirmed|finalized",
    "minContextSlot": <u64>
  }
}

• address: Base‑58 public key of the target account.

• limit: Max signatures to return (default and max: 1000).

• before / until: Paginate by signature.

• commitment: Confirmation level (defaults to the node’s setting).

• minContextSlot: Minimum slot the node must have processed to serve this request.

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📦 Response Structure

Returns an array of objects—each representing one signature:

Field	Type	Description
signature	string	Base‑58 transaction signature
slot	u64	Slot in which the transaction was processed
err	object | null	Error details if the transaction failed
memo	string | null	Memo attached to the transaction, if any
blockTime	i64 | null	Unix timestamp of the block (seconds since epoch)
confirmationStatus	string | null	“processed”, “confirmed”, or “finalized” (may be null)

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💡 Examples

1. Fetch the Latest Signatures Retrieve up to 1,000 newest signatures for an address.

2. Limit the Number of Signatures Request a specific count (e.g., 100) by setting limit: 100.

3. Paginate Through History Use before with the last signature of the previous batch to page backwards.

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Code Examples

Nodejs

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

async function getSignaturesForAddress(rpcUrl) {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(rpcUrl, {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
        jsonrpc: '2.0',
        id: 1,
        method: 'getSignaturesForAddress',
        "params": [
            "4UJuvGZ7Ge8H3je63Nsb9ZRNVBAd3CG2ajibnRaVSbw5",
            {
              "limit": 5 
            }
          ]
      }),
    });

    const data = await response.json();
    
    // Print the exact full response
    console.log('Full RPC Response:');
    console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
    
    return data;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error getting health:', error.message);
    return null;
  }
}

// Example usage
const RPC_URL = 'https://rpc.coinvera.io/?x-api-key=your-coinvera-x-api-key';

getSignaturesForAddress(RPC_URL);

Python

import requests
import json

def get_signatures_for_address(rpc_url):
    try:
        response = requests.post(
            rpc_url,
            headers={
                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            },
            json={
                'jsonrpc': '2.0',
                'id': 1,
                'method': 'getSignaturesForAddress',
                'params': [
                    '4UJuvGZ7Ge8H3je63Nsb9ZRNVBAd3CG2ajibnRaVSbw5',
                    {
                        'limit': 5
                    }
                ]
            }
        )
        
        data = response.json()
        
        # Print the exact full response
        print('Full RPC Response:')
        print(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
        
        return data
        
    except Exception as error:
        print(f'Error getting health: {error}')
        return None

# Example usage
RPC_URL = 'https://rpc.coinvera.io/?x-api-key=your-coinvera-x-api-key'
get_signatures_for_address(RPC_URL)

Example Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": [
    {
      "blockTime": 1753337914,
      "confirmationStatus": "finalized",
      "err": null,
      "memo": null,
      "signature": "4boe3PE7Z2JvVuJb71MCNHZMRSGpcgMVFtiWADzGNTQkM6aa6b9xZg21Rs4xckLiDfFHfQNcPimMD7AmWkqS8KWC",
      "slot": 355371621
    },
    {
      "blockTime": 1753337729,
      "confirmationStatus": "finalized",
      "err": null,
      "memo": null,
      "signature": "3ec22yxtoMsSZKgEG7yGmLpVqkwQL4mqo4uBJbXJbx3VHAot6zhxLoH9K34hpD5SaeTGc3x4ufFMuA2r8mDJ84eP",
      "slot": 355371148
    },
    {
      "blockTime": 1753336615,
      "confirmationStatus": "finalized",
      "err": null,
      "memo": null,
      "signature": "4sjZcFBuamq26nSEiQeezaHwNzr1zPfaYf4iJXbZ7FHcEJ7jxLkFWp6UMhab3fyq98EQyoym6j8dEHnZR1u5XgU2",
      "slot": 355368317
    },
    {
      "blockTime": 1753336550,
      "confirmationStatus": "finalized",
      "err": null,
      "memo": null,
      "signature": "3ogjKgB5thqU7ENNUTaxnVHnG8eufW4cm8Jx42bofiHGWHamjMMiEm3RdTSThq38mwtcuqDChg6FTaX84TkiZ1aS",
      "slot": 355368149
    },
    {
      "blockTime": 1753335989,
      "confirmationStatus": "finalized",
      "err": null,
      "memo": null,
      "signature": "2iHnTgv2cJvr3EMdFaEoYcjQrtUL9kq7LmBPENKb4YA4ZgA3ZGDvEnmNu6sdnuW6kmQM9Rbc3fsQYhWg6cXGCYqe",
      "slot": 355366716
    }
  ],
  "id": 1
}

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🧠 Developer Tips

• Pagination Is Essential To walk an active account’s full history, repeat calls using before and adjust limit.

• Watch Rate Limits Large or frequent history queries can hit RPC provider limits.

• Ordering Guaranteed Results always flow from newest to oldest.

• Use until to Stop Early If you only need transactions up to a known signature, specify until to halt the scan.

• Context Slot Doesn’t Filter minContextSlot sets the node’s ledger state threshold, not a transaction filter.

• Full Details via getTransaction This method returns only signatures and metadata; retrieve full transaction info by feeding each signature into getTransaction.

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By leveraging getSignaturesForAddress with its pagination and filtering options, you can efficiently access and manage any Solana account’s transaction history.