getAccountBalance

How to call the API from an app

Hedera Wallet Snap connects to your currently connected Metamask account by default. To learn how apps can connect to Hedera Wallet Snap using a non-metamask(external) account, refer to this documentation.

Then, depending on whether you're trying to connect to a metamask account or a non-metamask account, you can call the snap API in the following way:

const snapId = `npm:@hashgraph/hedera-wallet-snap`

const getAccountInfoAPI = async () => {
  const externalAccountParams = {
    externalAccount: {
      accountIdOrEvmAddress: '0.0.12345',
      curve: 'ED25519'
    }
  }

  await window.ethereum.request({
    method: 'wallet_invokeSnap',
    params: {
      snapId,
      request: {
        method: 'getAccountBalance',
        params: {
          network: 'testnet',
          mirrorNodeUrl: 'https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com'
          // Pass 'accountId' is useful if you want to retrieve account balance
          // for someone else rather than yourself
          accountId: '0.0.67890', 
          /* 
            Uncomment the below line if you want to connect 
            to a non-metamask account
          */
          // ...externalAccountParams
        }
      }
    }
  })
}

If you don't pass in "accountId", it will retrieve account info for the currently connected account.

Note that you can also call this API to retrieve account balance for another account Id which you do not own. Think of this as fetching the account balance of an arbitrary hedera account Id. To do that, you would just pass in accountId like this:

const snapId = `npm:@hashgraph/hedera-wallet-snap`

  await window.ethereum.request({
    method: 'wallet_invokeSnap',
    params: {
      snapId,
      request: {
        method: 'getAccountBalance',
        params: {
          network: 'testnet',
          mirrorNodeUrl: 'https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com'
          accountId: '0.0.1',
        }
      }
    }
  })
}

This would retrieve the account balance of the account 0.0.1 from the Hedera Network Nodes.

What the API does

1. Retrieves the currently connected account the user has selected on Metamask. If it's the first time, a new snap account is created and the account info is saved in snap state.

2. Calls the Get Account Balance API to get account balance.

3. Returns the result.

Some example responses:

For a hedera account id 0.0.4559:

{
  "currentAccount": {
    "hederaAccountId": "0.0.4559",
    "hederaEvmAddress": "0x3ba201df50314e4702d4d92b52d304ee63bfca23",
    "balance": {
      "hbars": 89.60420503,
      "timestamp": "2024-02-01T21:35:21.826Z",
      "tokens": {}
    },
    "network": "testnet"
  },
  "accountBalance": 89.60420503
}

Live Demo on CodePen

Some things to keep in mind while interacting with the above demo

• If you're getting any errors with the live demo, make sure you go through the FAQs section to learn about what you may be missing. You need to install Metamask in your browser for the live demo to work

To ease the integration of Hedera Wallet Snap on an application, we have created a template web application that you can run locally and check out the code in its entirety to learn how you can integrate and interact with various APIs exposed by Hedera Wallet Snap. Check out the full source code at template application github repository.

You can also check out the API reference to learn how each API works.