turtlescan

Explore from the safety of your shell

Starts a little tui which connects to your JSON-RPC server and allows you to browse the blockchain.

Installation: cargo install turtlescan (this exact command is also how you update turtlescan)

Usage (after running cargo install turtlescan): turtlescan --provider.url=ws://localhost:8545 tui

Usage (from a source checkout): cargo run -- --provider.url=ws://localhost:8545 tui

Some notes:

1. Currently it requires that your JSON-RPC server support websocket connections. If it is not possible for you to connect to your server via websocket please leave a comment here.

   • Turbogeth: when running rpcdaemon pass the --ws flag
   • Geth: when running geth pass the --ws flag

2. It is technically possible to connect to Infura but I do not recommend it. Turtlescan does not rate-limit itself and this might get you banned. If you would like to use turtlescan with Infura please leave a comment here.

3. If you do not want to pass in the --provider flag every time you run turtlescan you can set the environment variable TURTLE_PROVIDER.

   $ export TURTLE_PROVIDER=ws://localhost:8545
   $ turtlescan tui