tx

The tx method retrieves information on a single transaction, by its identifying hash or its CTID.

Request Format

An example of the request format:

{
  "id": 1,
  "command": "tx",
  "transaction": "C53ECF838647FA5A4C780377025FEC7999AB4182590510CA461444B207AB74A9",
  "binary": false
}

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The request includes the following parameters:

Field	Type	Required?	Description
`ctid`	String	No	The compact transaction identifier of the transaction to look up. Must use uppercase hexadecimal only. (Not supported in Clio v2.0 and earlier)
`transaction`	String	No	The 256-bit hash of the transaction to look up, as hexadecimal.
`binary`	Boolean	No	If `true`, return transaction data and metadata as binary serialized to hexadecimal strings. If `false`, return transaction data and metadata as JSON. The default is `false`.
`min_ledger`	Number	No	Use this with `max_ledger` to specify a range of up to 1000 ledger indexes, starting with this ledger (inclusive). If the server cannot find the transaction, it confirms whether it was able to search all the ledgers in this range.
`max_ledger`	Number	No	Use this with `min_ledger` to specify a range of up to 1000 ledger indexes, ending with this ledger (inclusive). If the server cannot find the transaction, it confirms whether it was able to search all the ledgers in the requested range.

You must provide either ctid or transaction, but not both.

Caution

This command may successfully find the transaction even if it is included in a ledger outside the range of min_ledger to max_ledger.

Response Format

An example of a successful response:

{
    "id": 1,
    "result": {
      "Account": "rhhh49pFH96roGyuC4E5P4CHaNjS1k8gzM",
      "Fee": "12",
      "Flags": 0,
      "LastLedgerSequence": 56865248,
      "OfferSequence": 5037708,
      "Sequence": 5037710,
      "SigningPubKey": "03B51A3EDF70E4098DA7FB053A01C5A6A0A163A30ED1445F14F87C7C3295FCB3BE",
      "TakerGets": "15000000000",
      "TakerPays": {
        "currency": "CNY",
        "issuer": "rKiCet8SdvWxPXnAgYarFUXMh1zCPz432Y",
        "value": "20160.75"
      },
      "TransactionType": "OfferCreate",
      "TxnSignature": "3045022100A5023A0E64923616FCDB6D664F569644C7C9D1895772F986CD6B981B515B02A00220530C973E9A8395BC6FE2484948D2751F6B030FC7FB8575D1BFB406368AD554D9",
      "ctid": "C363B1DD00000000",
      "date": 648248020,
      "hash": "C53ECF838647FA5A4C780377025FEC7999AB4182590510CA461444B207AB74A9",
      "inLedger": 56865245,
      "ledger_index": 56865245,
      "meta": {
        "AffectedNodes": [
          {
            "ModifiedNode": {
              "FinalFields": {
                "ExchangeRate": "4f04c66806cf7400",
                "Flags": 0,
                "RootIndex": "02BAAC1E67C1CE0E96F0FA2E8061020536CEDD043FEB0FF54F04C66806CF7400",
                "TakerGetsCurrency": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
                "TakerGetsIssuer": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
                "TakerPaysCurrency": "000000000000000000000000434E590000000000",
                "TakerPaysIssuer": "CED6E99370D5C00EF4EBF72567DA99F5661BFB3A"
              },
              "LedgerEntryType": "DirectoryNode",
              "LedgerIndex": "02BAAC1E67C1CE0E96F0FA2E8061020536CEDD043FEB0FF54F04C66806CF7400"
            }
          },
          {
            "ModifiedNode": {
              "FinalFields": {
                "Account": "rhhh49pFH96roGyuC4E5P4CHaNjS1k8gzM",
                "Balance": "10404767991",
                "Flags": 0,
                "OwnerCount": 3,
                "Sequence": 5037711
              },
              "LedgerEntryType": "AccountRoot",
              "LedgerIndex": "1DECD9844E95FFBA273F1B94BA0BF2564DDF69F2804497A6D7837B52050174A2",
              "PreviousFields": {
                "Balance": "10404768003",
                "Sequence": 5037710
              },
              "PreviousTxnID": "4DC47B246B5EB9CCE92ABA8C482479E3BF1F946CABBEF74CA4DE36521D5F9008",
              "PreviousTxnLgrSeq": 56865244
            }
          },
          {
            "DeletedNode": {
              "FinalFields": {
                "Account": "rhhh49pFH96roGyuC4E5P4CHaNjS1k8gzM",
                "BookDirectory": "02BAAC1E67C1CE0E96F0FA2E8061020536CEDD043FEB0FF54F04C66806CF7400",
                "BookNode": "0",
                "Flags": 0,
                "OwnerNode": "0",
                "PreviousTxnID": "8F5FF57B404827F12BDA7561876A13C3E3B3095CBF75334DBFB5F227391A660C",
                "PreviousTxnLgrSeq": 56865244,
                "Sequence": 5037708,
                "TakerGets": "15000000000",
                "TakerPays": {
                  "currency": "CNY",
                  "issuer": "rKiCet8SdvWxPXnAgYarFUXMh1zCPz432Y",
                  "value": "20160.75"
                }
              },
              "LedgerEntryType": "Offer",
              "LedgerIndex": "26AAE6CA8D29E28A47C92ADF22D5D96A0216F0551E16936856DDC8CB1AAEE93B"
            }
          },
          {
            "ModifiedNode": {
              "FinalFields": {
                "Flags": 0,
                "IndexNext": "0",
                "IndexPrevious": "0",
                "Owner": "rhhh49pFH96roGyuC4E5P4CHaNjS1k8gzM",
                "RootIndex": "47FAF5D102D8CE655574F440CDB97AC67C5A11068BB3759E87C2B9745EE94548"
              },
              "LedgerEntryType": "DirectoryNode",
              "LedgerIndex": "47FAF5D102D8CE655574F440CDB97AC67C5A11068BB3759E87C2B9745EE94548"
            }
          },
          {
            "CreatedNode": {
              "LedgerEntryType": "Offer",
              "LedgerIndex": "8BAEE3C7DE04A568E96007420FA11ABD0BC9AE44D35932BB5640E9C3FB46BC9B",
              "NewFields": {
                "Account": "rhhh49pFH96roGyuC4E5P4CHaNjS1k8gzM",
                "BookDirectory": "02BAAC1E67C1CE0E96F0FA2E8061020536CEDD043FEB0FF54F04C66806CF7400",
                "Sequence": 5037710,
                "TakerGets": "15000000000",
                "TakerPays": {
                  "currency": "CNY",
                  "issuer": "rKiCet8SdvWxPXnAgYarFUXMh1zCPz432Y",
                  "value": "20160.75"
                }
              }
            }
          }
        ],
        "TransactionIndex": 0,
        "TransactionResult": "tesSUCCESS"
      },
      "validated": true
    },
    "status": "success",
    "type": "response"
}

The response follows the standard format, with a successful result containing the fields of the Transaction object as well as the following additional fields:

`Field`	Type	Description
`ctid`	String	The transaction's compact transaction identifier. (Not supported in Clio v2.0 and earlier.)
`date`	Number	The close time of the ledger in which the transaction was applied, in seconds since the Ripple Epoch.
`hash`	String	The unique identifying hash of the transaction
`inLedger`	Number	(Deprecated) Alias for `ledger_index`.
`ledger_index`	Number	The ledger index of the ledger that includes this transaction.
`meta`	Object (JSON) or String (binary)	Transaction metadata, which describes the results of the transaction.
`validated`	Boolean	If `true`, this data comes from a validated ledger version; if omitted or set to `false`, this data is not final.
(Various)	(Various)	Other fields from the Transaction object

Not Found Response

If the server does not find the transaction, it returns a txnNotFound error, which could mean two things:

The transaction has not been included in any ledger version, and has not been executed.
The transaction was included in a ledger version that the server does not have available.

This means that a txnNotFound on its own is not enough to know the final outcome of a transaction.

To further narrow down the possibilities, you can provide a range of ledgers to search using the min_ledger and max_ledger fields in the request. If you provide both of those fields, the txnNotFound response includes the following field:

Field	Type	Description
`searched_all`	Boolean	(Omitted unless the request provided `min_ledger` and `max_ledger`) If `true`, the server was able to search all of the specified ledger versions, and the transaction was in none of them. If `false`, the server did not have all of the specified ledger versions available, so it is not sure if one of them might contain the transaction.

An example of a txnNotFound response that fully searched a requested range of ledgers:

{
  "error": "txnNotFound",
  "error_code": 29,
  "error_message": "Transaction not found.",
  "id": 1,
  "request": {
    "binary": false,
    "command": "tx",
    "id": 1,
    "max_ledger": 54368673,
    "min_ledger": 54368573,
    "transaction": "E08D6E9754025BA2534A78707605E0601F03ACE063687A0CA1BDDACFCD1698C7"
  },
  "searched_all": true,
  "status": "error",
  "type": "response"
}

Possible Errors

Any of the universal error types.
invalidParams - One or more fields are specified incorrectly, or one or more required fields are missing.
txnNotFound - Either the transaction does not exist, or it was part of an ledger version that rippled does not have available.
excessiveLgrRange - The min_ledger and max_ledger fields of the request are more than 1000 apart.
invalidLgrRange - The specified min_ledger is larger than the max_ledger, or one of those parameters is not a valid ledger index.