Detecting pending TX's from a specific address?

[Raveboi334]

Hi there, I was wondering if I was using the code wrong, but I am trying to figure out how to get pending transactions for a specific address.

I've tried: web3.eth.filter({'fromBlock': 'latest', 'toBlock': 'pending', 'address': 'MY ADDRESS'}) but it only shows mined (validated) transactions.

Is this a bug or is there any way to work around this?

Thank you.

[dbfreem]

So here is my understanding of filter based on what is in the docs. You can provide 'latest', 'pending' or a dictionary to web3.eth.filter(). You seem to be mixing the latest and pending functionality with the dictionary.

[fselmo]

@Raveboi334 @dbfreem The 'pending' keyword should technically work (using geth at least) but I don't believe you will get very good results unless you are running your own node. Many providers won't support pending in this way anyhow, as is the case with Infura. I'm going to close this as it isn't a bug but please let us know if you think there's a bug somewhere in here. Best of luck.

[mrhouzlane]

@Raveboi334 , this works for me :

event_filter = web3.eth.filter({"address": CONTRACT_ADDRESS })

async def log_loop(event_filter, poll_interval):
    while True:
        for event in event_filter.get_new_entries():
            handle_event(event)
        await asyncio.sleep(poll_interval)

def main():
    options = Router
    # block_filter = w3.eth.filter('latest') #or 'pending'
    tx_filter = web3.eth.filter('pending')
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    try:
        loop.run_until_complete(
            asyncio.gather(
                # log_loop(block_filter, 2),
                log_loop(tx_filter, 2)))
    finally:
        loop.close()