<p><a href="https://cardanoscan.io/metadata" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cardanoscan</a> can be used to browse the metadata. Similar services is also available in test net.
Sample output is like this</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/JmpTU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/JmpTU.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

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2021-09-12T08:29:01.747Z
I guess the problem is to find a specific transaction, among all millions or billions of transactions that may exist on the block-chain. There are efforts like covalent ( https://www.covalenthq.com) that provide search services but I don't know if that is available for cardano.
j.karlsson
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raghu
<p>I found that it is possible in the following way:</p>
<ul>
<li>Use the Wallet API to find a minting transaction from a list of all of your wallet's transactions <a href="https://input-output-hk.github.io/cardano-wallet/api/edge/#operation/listTransactions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://input-output-hk.github.io/cardano-wallet/api/edge/#operation/listTransactions</a>. You can find here also metadata but for a better format, you can proceed to the below step.</li>
<li>Use blockfrost.io API to get metadata from minting transaction <a href="https://docs.blockfrost.io/#tag/Cardano-Transactions/paths/%7E1txs%7E1%7Bhash%7D%7E1metadata/get" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.blockfrost.io/#tag/Cardano-Transactions/paths/~1txs~1{hash}~1metadata/get</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Alternatively, you can use <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-db-sync" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-db-sync</a> to sync the whole node to Postgres DB from where you can query metadata <a href="https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-db-sync-query-metadata/74386" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-db-sync-query-metadata/74386</a></p>
<p>The third way is to use <a href="https://input-output-hk.github.io/offchain-metadata-tools/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://input-output-hk.github.io/offchain-metadata-tools/</a>. By my understanding, the main purpose of this tool is to verify native tokens. It requires to be done pull request to git and after approval, you can do a query with this <a href="https://input-output-hk.github.io/offchain-metadata-tools/api/latest/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://input-output-hk.github.io/offchain-metadata-tools/api/latest/</a></p>

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zarej
<p>i've minted some NFTs with 721 metadata in the transaction and am now looking to retrieve the metadata information for further processing. I've send these NFTs around a bit so the   utxo is not the minting transaction. Is there a way to retrieve this information using the cardano-cli or cardano-wallet commandline? Or are there other suggestions for doing this. I'm working on the testnet currently.
Thanks a lot in advance!</p>

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Retrieve NFT transaction metadata
# Retrieve NFT transaction metadata

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-10)

i've minted some NFTs with 721 metadata in the transaction and am now looking to retrieve the metadata information for further processing. I've send these NFTs around a bit so the utxo is not the minting transaction. Is there a way to retrieve this information using the cardano-cli or cardano-wallet commandline? Or are there other suggestions for doing this. I'm working on the testnet currently.
Thanks a lot in advance!

**Tags:** cardano-cli, metadata

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2021-09-19. Score: 4

I found that it is possible in the following way:

* Use the Wallet API to find a minting transaction from a list of all of your wallet's transactions <https://input-output-hk.github.io/cardano-wallet/api/edge/#operation/listTransactions>. You can find here also metadata but for a better format, you can proceed to the below step.
* Use blockfrost.io API to get metadata from minting transaction [https://docs.blockfrost.io/#tag/Cardano-Transactions/paths/~1txs~1{hash}~1metadata/get](https://docs.blockfrost.io/#tag/Cardano-Transactions/paths/%7E1txs%7E1%7Bhash%7D%7E1metadata/get)

Alternatively, you can use <https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-db-sync> to sync the whole node to Postgres DB from where you can query metadata <https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-db-sync-query-metadata/74386>

The third way is to use <https://input-output-hk.github.io/offchain-metadata-tools/>. By my understanding, the main purpose of this tool is to verify native tokens. It requires to be done pull request to git and after approval, you can do a query with this <https://input-output-hk.github.io/offchain-metadata-tools/api/latest/>


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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-09-10. Score: 0

[Cardanoscan](https://cardanoscan.io/metadata) can be used to browse the metadata. Similar services is also available in test net.
Sample output is like this

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/JmpTU.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/JmpTU.png)

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: I guess the problem is to find a specific transaction, among all millions or billions of transactions that may exist on the block-chain. There are efforts like covalent ( https://www.covalenthq.com) that provide search services but I don't know if that is available for cardano.  

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