⏅EthWatcher

◎ Know thyself for to not will leave thy confused

Introduction

This thing watches an ethereum address for Events, then returns them to STDOUT ready for piping to other commands, like TWITTER or Secure Scuttlebutt

Watch all events

$ ethwatcher "0x0c63ed1bd515e82a5075abf240184e15d59ba0f2" --abi ./example_abi.js

Connected to: http://localhost:8545
Watching address: 0x0c63ed1bd515e82a5075abf240184e15d59ba0f2
  From block: 0
    To block: latest
   for event: *
    with abi: ./example_abi.js

{"logIndex":0,"transactionIndex":0,"transactionHash":"0xd643a985a7b2335845c98f5767f130fbfc8cf2833776e44b0f6d3a9f89b3c368","blockHash":"0x731ced4df065a45439c3865ae32786671bae1fca71479882af98a957c19885e8","blockNumber":7,"address":"0x0c63ed1bd515e82a5075abf240184e15d59ba0f2","type":"mined","event":"ActionAdded","args":{"actionID":"1","amount":"0","description":"Bind Ethereum events to Secure Scuttlebutt posts"}}

Process JSON of specific events

requires jq

$ ethwatcher "0x0c63ed1bd515e82a5075abf240184e15d59ba0f2" --event "ActionAdded" --abi ./example_abi.js --silent true | jq -r '.args'

{
  "actionID": "0",
  "amount": "0",
  "description": "test"
}
{
  "actionID": "1",
  "amount": "0",
  "description": "Bind Ethereum events to Secure Scuttlebutt posts"
}

Post to Scuttlebutt on new event

$ ethwatcher "0x0c63ed1bd515e82a5075abf240184e15d59ba0f2" --event "ActionAdded" --abi ./example_abi.js --silent true | jq -r '.args.description' |