Gas Tracker

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Get Estimation of Confirmation Time

Returns the estimated time, in seconds, for a transaction to be confirmed on the blockchain.

https://api.etherscan.io/api
   ?module=gastracker
   &action=gasestimate
   &gasprice=2000000000
   &apikey=YourApiKeyToken

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Request

Query Parameters

Parameter	Description
gasprice	the price paid per unit of gas, in wei

📖 Tip: Easily convert Ethereum units using our unit converter.

Response

Sample Response

{
   "status":"1",
   "message":"OK",
   "result":"9227"
}

📝 Note: The result is returned in seconds.

Get Gas Oracle

Returns the current Safe, Proposed and Fast gas prices.

Post EIP-1559 🔥 changes :

• Safe/Proposed/Fast gas price recommendations are now modeled as Priority Fees.

• New field suggestBaseFee , the baseFee of the next pending block

• New field gasUsedRatio, to estimate how busy the network is

Learn more about the gas changes in EIP-1559.

https://api.etherscan.io/api
   ?module=gastracker
   &action=gasoracle
   &apikey=YourApiKeyToken 

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Request

No parameters required.

Response

Sample Response

{
   "status":"1",
   "message":"OK",
   "result":{
      "LastBlock":"13053741",
      "SafeGasPrice":"20",
      "ProposeGasPrice":"22",
      "FastGasPrice":"24",
      "suggestBaseFee":"19.230609716",
      "gasUsedRatio":"0.370119078777807,0.8954731,0.550911766666667,0.212457033333333,0.552463633333333"
   }
}

⛽ Note: The gas prices are returned in Gwei.

Get Daily Average Gas Limit

Returns the historical daily average gas limit of the Ethereum network.

 https://api.etherscan.io/api
    ?module=stats
    &action=dailyavggaslimit
    &startdate=2019-02-01
    &enddate=2019-02-28
    &sort=asc
    &apikey=YourApiKeyToken 

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Request

Query Parameters

Parameter	Description
startdate	the starting date in yyyy-MM-dd format, eg. 2019-01-31
enddate	the ending date in yyyy-MM-dd format, eg. 2019-02-28
sort	the sorting preference, use asc to sort by ascending and desc to sort by descending

Response

Sample Response

{
   "status":"1",
   "message":"OK",
   "result":[
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-01",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1548979200",
         "gasLimit":"8001360"
      },
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-27",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1551225600",
         "gasLimit":"8001071"
      },
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-28",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1551312000",
         "gasLimit":"8001137"
      }
   ]
}

Get Ethereum Daily Total Gas Used

Returns the total amount of gas used daily for transctions on the Ethereum network.

 https://api.etherscan.io/api
    ?module=stats
    &action=dailygasused
    &startdate=2019-02-01
    &enddate=2019-02-28
    &sort=asc
    &apikey=YourApiKeyToken 

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Request

Query Parameters

Parameter	Description
startdate	the starting date in yyyy-MM-dd format, eg. 2019-01-31
enddate	the ending date in yyyy-MM-dd format, eg. 2019-02-28
sort	the sorting preference, use asc to sort by ascending and desc to sort by descending

Response

Sample Response

{
   "status":"1",
   "message":"OK",
   "result":[
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-01",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1548979200",
         "gasUsed":"32761450415"
      },
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-27",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1551225600",
         "gasUsed":"32657440136"
      },
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-28",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1551312000",
         "gasUsed":"33081119561"
      }
   ]
}

Get Daily Average Gas Price

Returns the daily average gas price used on the Ethereum network.

 https://api.etherscan.io/api
    ?module=stats
    &action=dailyavggasprice
    &startdate=2019-02-01
    &enddate=2019-02-28
    &sort=asc
    &apikey=YourApiKeyToken 

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Request

Query Parameters

Parameter	Description
startdate	the starting date in yyyy-MM-dd format, eg. 2019-01-31
enddate	the ending date in yyyy-MM-dd format, eg. 2019-02-28
sort	the sorting preference, use asc to sort by ascending and desc to sort by descending

Response

Sample Response

{
   "status":"1",
   "message":"OK",
   "result":[
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-01",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1548979200",
         "maxGasPrice_Wei":"60814303896257",
         "minGasPrice_Wei":"432495",
         "avgGasPrice_Wei":"13234562600"
      },
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-27",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1551225600",
         "maxGasPrice_Wei":"42000000000000",
         "minGasPrice_Wei":"1000000",
         "avgGasPrice_Wei":"16334617513"
      },
      {
         "UTCDate":"2019-02-28",
         "unixTimeStamp":"1551312000",
         "maxGasPrice_Wei":"237222222222257",
         "minGasPrice_Wei":"100000000",
         "avgGasPrice_Wei":"18834674068"
      }
   ]
}