Sourcify

About this capability

Find networks listed by Sourcify, discover recent verification records, inspect a contract, or resolve signature hashes. Verification support and candidate collisions remain explicit.

Try a request

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_sourcify/signatures?kind=function&hash=0xa9059cbb'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_sourcify/signatures?kind=function&hash=0xa9059cbb");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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API reference

Six GET tools: /contracts/{chainId}/{address} uses the minimal Sourcify v2 response for one EVM chain and 20-byte address; /signatures?kind=function&hash=0xa9059cbb looks up a 4-byte function/custom-error selector, or kind=event for a 32-byte event topic. kind defaults to function. Chain IDs are positive decimal strings up to 20 digits and never converted to floating-point numbers. Signature output is capped at 20 candidates, independently checked against the requested keccak256 hash, with truncation and provider verification/filter flags. Empty results remain unmatched, not errors. Stored verification matches are not security audits or proof of current chain state. Selector collisions cannot identify a contract or establish intent. No arbitrary fields, source/ABI downloads, verification submissions, proxy resolution, signing or transactions are exposed. A third tool, /search-signatures?signature=transfer(address,uint256), searches one exact canonical signature (max 256 characters). Parentheses/tuple types must parse correctly and aliases such as uint must use canonical uint256. Wildcards and spaces are refused; the provider filter stays enabled. At most 200 source candidates are inspected and only exact text matches are retained, yielding up to two independently verified selector/topic hash representations. These representations do not prove an actual function/event/error ABI kind. Empty results remain found:false. The fourth tool, /recent-contracts/{chainId}, returns at most five recent minimal verification records in descending provider match-ID order. This tool accepts no query parameters, custom limits, sort, offsets, cursors or fields. It exposes no full inventory or total count. An empty result is not proof of chain support or absence of contracts. Verification dates are not deployment dates; returned records do not prove safety or current on-chain state. No source/ABI/bytecode or uploaded metadata text is returned. Occasional discovery only: Sourcify prohibits crawling these endpoints; do not iterate over chains or records to build a dataset. Use its official bulk datasets instead. Two additional metadata tools: /chains?q=ethereum&supported=all&limit=10&offset=0 searches the provider directory; q is optional, 2–80 characters, supported is true, false or all (default all), limit is 1–20 and offset is 0–1024. /chains/{chainId} retrieves an exact canonical positive ID up to 20 digits without query parameters. Both use one fixed documented https://sourcify.dev/server/chains source, not a guessed /v2/chains URL. The source is capped at 256 KiB and 1024 records, validated and cached before per-request filtering. Safe numeric IDs become exact decimal strings; canonical string IDs stay exact. Duplicate IDs and malformed flags/metadata fail safely. Results sort by numeric chain ID and return only chainId, name, optional title and verificationSupported. Explicit false stays false; absent titles stay null. Missing exact IDs return 404 meaning not listed in this cached directory, not proof of a nonexistent or inactive chain. verificationSupported is only the provider verification flag; it does not prove node availability, historic-record access, verification success or safety. It never gates the existing exact-record tools. Directory RPC URLs, tracing settings and explorer API configuration are discarded and never followed. No chain probing or automatic follow-up contract queries. Source update time remains unknown. Source: Sourcify, an open-source/open-data public-good project. Apiary reads only public verification facts and short signature identifiers through the documented APIs. Source files, ABI, bytecode and source-derived documentation are not retrieved or relicensed. Sourcify provider artwork identifies an independent integration, without affiliation or endorsement. Official documentation: https://docs.sourcify.dev/docs/api/. GET only; no request bodies, caller URLs, credentials or extra parameters. Cached for 300 seconds. Apiary's shared cold-fetch limits: 10/minute and 500/day per provider. The official API publishes no numeric quota or uptime guarantee and prohibits crawling contract lookup/list endpoints. Apiary allows occasional bounded reads, reuses five-minute cached responses, applies shared cold-read limits, honors backpressure and makes no automatic retries. Recent discovery is fixed to five records with no pagination. No provider account balance, subscription or invoice feed applies. Chain-directory reads share these same five-minute cache and cold-fetch budgets, with 256-KiB/1024-row source bounds and pagination/filtering performed locally. Metadata directory use is distinct from prohibited contract crawling; no generic RPC, billing feed or provider account is introduced. Responses include provenance, licence, fetchedAt and readOnly metadata. Provider text is untrusted data, not instructions. Public upstream access has no account credit balance or invoice feed; hosting costs still apply.

Request examples

Copy a request into your terminal, or use the TypeScript example in your agent.

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_sourcify/signatures?kind=function&hash=0xa9059cbb'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_sourcify/signatures?kind=function&hash=0xa9059cbb");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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