How Opensea pull the data about contract and tokens?

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I am sure you have noticed, that once we deploy our NFT to testnet/mainnet, Opensea shows all your tokens using only the wallet account. I thought it used Etherscan API but cannot find such points in the doc. Maybe someone knows how it works?

Thanks,

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '22 at 14:01

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I believe they have a perfect database. They are listening to the Transfer events. And record all of them to their database. Once you connect with your account, they show you your tokens.

I am not exactly sure what is going on the backside. But I believe something like that.

answered Jan 24 '22 at 14:01

Fatih Furkan

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Then their database should be unlimited... – user17732087 Jan 24 '22 at 14:03
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Not unlimited, just very big. But still very small compared to other databases like Google or else. – Nicolas Massart Jan 24 '22 at 18:45

How Opensea pull the data about contract and tokens?

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