The site Etherscan allows you retrieve information on accounts and transactions. There is an interface to the Reposten testnet as well. While doing some work on a project I was monitoring the page to view an account balance and ended up creating a script to do the monitoring programmatically.
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get-eth-balance
The site Etherscan allows you retrieve information on accounts and transactions. There is an interface to the Reposten testnet as well. While doing some work on a project I was monitoring the page to view an account balance and ended up creating a script to do the monitoring programmatically.
See blog post at http://blog.bradlucas.com/posts/2017-07-27-ethereum-get-eth-balance-script/
Setup
Create virtual enviroment
$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
Install required libraries
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Usage
Command line Arguments:
-t use Ropsten testnet otherwise default to mainnet chain
-a account
Environment variables: Use these in liu of the command line arguments
GET_ETH_BALANCE_CHAIN=[testnet|mainnet] - Default to mainnet if not set
GET_ETH_BALANCE_ACCOUNT=account
Command line arguments will take precedence
$ python get-eth-balance.py -t -a 0xd60e64afb753583941e1ab42f836ced0d23af2db
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