Find transactions where address is fee payer

[dimaa6]

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Suppose I want to fetch all the transactions which change APT balance of an address. I can query for deposit_events and withdrawal_events for my address of interest, this covers APT transfers. For transaction fees, I can use accounts/address/transactions endpoint and get all transactions submitted by the account. Almost there, but concept of gas sponsorship is not covered by the approach above. accounts/address/transactions API returns only txs submitted by the address, not the ones signed by the address (fee sponsor is supposed to sign the tx, so if it returned all signed txs, I will be OK).

Is there any endpoint we can use to fetch either txs where fee is paid by the address, or txs which are signed by the address, including fee payer role?

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[0x-j]

on explorer account tx page, it lists all txs include fee payer ones, you can use the same code

example of an account sending fee payer https://explorer.aptoslabs.com/account/0x4f2e63be8e7fe287836e29cde6f3d5cbc96eefd0c0e3f3747668faa2ae7324b0?network=testnet

https://github.com/aptos-labs/explorer/blob/c7d7db7992dcc201e14a37ae2da2a114a84daa40/src/api/index.ts#L34

[dimaa6]

on explorer account tx page, it lists all txs include fee payer ones, you can use the same code

example of an account sending fee payer https://explorer.aptoslabs.com/account/0x4f2e63be8e7fe287836e29cde6f3d5cbc96eefd0c0e3f3747668faa2ae7324b0?network=testnet

https://github.com/aptos-labs/explorer/blob/c7d7db7992dcc201e14a37ae2da2a114a84daa40/src/api/index.ts#L34

Thank you! This is exactly what puzzles me though. Explorer sources import AptosClient from package aptos:

https://github.com/aptos-labs/explorer/blob/c7d7db7992dcc201e14a37ae2da2a114a84daa40/src/api/index.ts#L1

Then call its method getAccountTransactions - https://github.com/aptos-labs/explorer/blob/c7d7db7992dcc201e14a37ae2da2a114a84daa40/src/api/index.ts#L44

I cannot locate sources of package aptos, as npmjs says package is obsolete - https://www.npmjs.com/package/aptos, and does not provide github URL of the package. However npmjs has Code tab, where getAccountTransactions method looks like (file /aptos/src/providers/aptos_client.ts:

async getAccountTransactions(accountAddress: MaybeHexString, query?: PaginationArgs): Promise<Gen.Transaction[]> {
    const { data } = await get<{}, Gen.Transaction[]>({
      url: this.nodeUrl,
      endpoint: `accounts/${HexString.ensure(accountAddress).hex()}/transactions`,
      originMethod: "getAccountTransactions",
      params: { start: query?.start, limit: query?.limit },
      overrides: { ...this.config },
    });
    return data;
  }

Moreover, comments for this method say: "Queries transactions sent by given account"

If then I use your address in testnet:

curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
'https://api.testnet.aptoslabs.com/v1/accounts/0x4f2e63be8e7fe287836e29cde6f3d5cbc96eefd0c0e3f3747668faa2ae7324b0/transactions'

I get only transactions submitted by yoyolo.apt account, missing all the transactions where it sponsored the fee, which are displayed by the explorer. What am I missing?