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SDK Guide

The example above is querying details of a transaction using RPC methods directly. If you are using the Stellar SDK to build applications, you can use the native functions to get the same information.

Python

# pip install --upgrade stellar-sdk
from stellar_sdk import SorobanServer, soroban_rpc


def get_transaction(hash: str) -> soroban_rpc.GetTransactionResponse:
    server = SorobanServer(server_url='https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org', client=None)
    tx = server.get_transaction(hash)
    return tx

tx = get_transaction("6bc97bddc21811c626839baf4ab574f4f9f7ddbebb44d286ae504396d4e752da")

print("result", tx.status)

JavaScript

// yarn add @stellar/stellar-sdk
import { Server } from "@stellar/stellar-sdk/rpc";

const server = new Server("https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org");

// Fetch transaction details
async function getTransactionDetails(hash) {
  try {
    server.getTransaction(hash).then((tx) => {
      console.log({ result: tx });
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error fetching transaction:", error);
  }
}

getTransactionDetails(
  "6bc97bddc21811c626839baf4ab574f4f9f7ddbebb44d286ae504396d4e752da",
);

Java

// implementation 'network.lightsail:stellar-sdk:0.44.0'

import org.stellar.sdk.SorobanServer;
import org.stellar.sdk.responses.sorobanrpc.GetTransactionResponse;

public class GetTransactionExample {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
	SorobanServer server = new SorobanServer("https://soroban-testnet.stellar.org");
	try {
	  GetTransactionResponse tx = server.getTransaction("6bc97bddc21811c626839baf4ab574f4f9f7ddbebb44d286ae504396d4e752da");
	  System.out.println("result: " + tx);
	} catch (Exception e) {
	  System.err.println("An error has occurred:");
	  e.printStackTrace();
	}
  }
}

Using the Lab

You can use the getTransaction method in the Stellar Laboratory to retrieve details about a specific transaction. This is especially useful for checking the status of a transaction to determine whether it has been successfully recorded on the blockchain.

The default transaction history retention window in stellar-rpc is 24 hours, but this can be adjusted (up to 7 days) for private Soroban RPC instances using the transaction-retention-window configuration setting. For transaction debugging beyond that window, consider indexing the data yourself, using a third-party indexer, or querying Hubble—Stellar’s public BigQuery dataset.

👉 View getTransaction on the Lab

(random image transaction hash)