Implement /search/transactions endpoint

[fboucquez]

Hi team,

The /search/transactions seems missing. I cannot see the service and the endpoint returns 404. Would it be hard to implement?

Cheers
Fernando

[shrimalmadhur]

Hey @fboucquez, Yes this is not implemented yet. I will take a look how easy or hard would it be to implement.

[fboucquez]

Thanks @shrimalmadhur , just for fun, I'm creating a Rosetta explorer.

https://github.com/fboucquez/rosetta-explorer

The search is pretty much required to do any type of Transaction search by hash (without knowing the block index) or transaction pagination. Block search/pagination would also be nice, but it's not in the API.

Do you know or have running rosetta nodes with different implementations. I am keen to test the explorer against different blockchains. If there are free open nodes up there, I can save time, resources, and effort setting up nodes.

I know lunar.dev used to have, but that service seems down. https://twitter.com/_lunardev

[shrimalmadhur]

Hey @fboucquez , this is amazing. I actually was building one by myself as a way to learn react. But as a newbie JS developer it was taking time. But I think this is great and I think I can also help contribute to do this. I was initially just creating etherscan like UX without search like https://localhost:8080/block/<block_hash> so I didn't think of implementing search.

Search API - yea I think we should implement pagination. If you would like to propose changes to rosetta-specs. feel free to create an issue in that repo ( We are also working on formal Rosetta Improvement Proposal spec to make spec changes)

We currently don't have these nodes as a service. I will see what I can do. I might be able to spin up a node on AWS and share with you the endpoint if that helps.

[fboucquez]

Hi @shrimalmadhur , great!

Feel free to contribute to the rosetta explorer. It's also Etherscan like, of course without any bell or whistle yet. It's fairly new, build it and have a look when you have the time.

The stack is React, NextJS, Typescript with serverside rendering using the rosetta generated client I was talking about in another issue.

If we can have external Bitcoin, Etherum, Solana, etc rosetta nodes, we can connect the explorer to them.

I would like to eventually deploy the explorer to VPC (or serverless) on AWS, Vercel, Hetzner, etc.

Cheers!