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Cardanoscan is great for testnet/pre-prod/mainnet. There are also some great tools like Oura for viewing transactions as they are happening, but some of the information in the transaction isn't showing.

Given a single (known) transaction ID, and a running Cardano node, is there a CLI tool for Linux for viewing the contents of a transaction, i.e. including metadata and inline datum, that works as easily as Oura, but has the detail of Cardanoscan?

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    – Nic_T2H
    Jan 12 at 6:50

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Kupo may do what you want. Else check for alternatives in its readme.

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  • Kupo is certainly easier to setup than some of the options. I am just looking at it now. In terms of user expectations here, is the answer always, that one needs to run a local indexer to view transaction data? Even when running a Cardano node, there's no random access to the information on it, so to speak?
    – ross-spencer
    Jan 10 at 15:42
  • @ross-spencer It is non-trivial to get historical transaction data using the node's mini protocols. Chain-followers (indexers) such as kupo and marconi stream this data out so you just need to query a rest api or sql db for useful and well formatted transaction data. They also handle rollbacks. Your alternative to a local indexer is something like blockfrost.
    – james
    Jan 11 at 16:09
  • Thanks @james. I've marked this as the correct answer as it is working for my use-case. I appreciate the feedback.
    – ross-spencer
    Jan 16 at 17:34
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Not that I know of, as the Cardano node stores only the current state of the blockchain without any historical data, which transactions are.

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    I appreciate this clear answer, and it's helpful to have this confirmed for a newbie. I need additional rep to vote it up, but here's a vote in spirit anyway!
    – ross-spencer
    Jan 16 at 17:35

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