How to get NFT Metadata

Step 1: Setup Moralis

Read the article Setting Up Moralis: Getting Started and make sure to finish all the steps. Only after that you can go ahead to complete this guide.

Step 2: Get an NFT's Metadata

In order to get an NFT by the address and token_id, Moralis provides you with an getNFTMetadata endpoint to do so.

Here you'll need two parameters: address and token_id.

Once you've obtained both the address and token_id, you can copy the following code:

index.js (JavaScript)

const Moralis = require("moralis").default;
const { EvmChain } = require("@moralisweb3/common-evm-utils");

const runApp = async () => {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    // ...and any other configuration
  });

  const address = "0xb47e3cd837dDF8e4c57F05d70Ab865de6e193BBB";

  const chain = EvmChain.ETHEREUM;

  const tokenId = "3931";

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.nft.getNFTMetadata({
    address,
    chain,
    tokenId,
  });

  console.log(response.toJSON());
};

runApp();

index.ts (TypeScript)

import Moralis from "moralis";
import { EvmChain } from "@moralisweb3/common-evm-utils";

const runApp = async () => {
  await Moralis.start({
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    // ...and any other configuration
  });

  const address = "0xb47e3cd837dDF8e4c57F05d70Ab865de6e193BBB";

  const chain = EvmChain.ETHEREUM;

  const tokenId = "3931";

  const response = await Moralis.EvmApi.nft.getNFTMetadata({
    address,
    chain,
    tokenId,
  });

  console.log(response.toJSON());
};

runApp();

index.py (Python)

from moralis import evm_api

api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

params = {
    "address": "0xb47e3cd837dDF8e4c57F05d70Ab865de6e193BBB",
    "token_id": "3931",
    "chain": "eth",
    "format": "decimal",
    "normalizeMetadata": True,
}

result = evm_api.nft.get_nft_metadata(
    api_key=api_key,
    params=params,
)

print(result)

Step 3: Run the script

To run the script, enter the following command:

Shell (JavaScript)

node index.js

Shell (TypeScript)

ts-node index.ts

Shell (Python)

python index.py

In your terminal, you should see the following JSON response:

{
  "token_address": "0xb47e3cd837ddf8e4c57f05d70ab865de6e193bbb",
  "token_id": "3931",
  "transfer_index": [13868997, 30, 36, 0],
  "owner_of": "0x1cf2b8c64aed32bff2ae80e701681316d3212afd",
  "block_number": "13868997",
  "block_number_minted": "5754322",
  "token_hash": "3c86855c82470edd82df190019e83f16",
  "amount": "1",
  "contract_type": null,
  "name": "CRYPTOPUNKS",
  "symbol": "Ͼ",
  "token_uri": "https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/3931",
  "metadata": "{\"image\":\"https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/cryptopunk3931.webp\",\"name\":\"CryptoPunk 3931\",\"attributes\":[\"Vampire Hair\",\"Goat\"],\"description\":\"Male\"}",
  "last_token_uri_sync": null,
  "last_metadata_sync": "2022-05-12T18:00:22.340Z",
  "minter_address": "0xc352b534e8b987e036a93539fd6897f53488e56a"
}

Congratulations 🥳 you just got Cryptopunk NFT metadata for token id 3931 owned by an address with just a few lines of code using Moralis NFT API!

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API Reference

If you want to know more details on the endpoint and optional parameters, check out:

• getNFTMetadata

Next Steps

Learn how to use the Moralis NFT API to build dapps:

• NFT-Gated Website NodeJS
• NFT-Gated Website (Django)

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