(ProviderError: Address "0xcabcabcaabc" is not whitelisted ) while using verify function

[adinarayanan2003]

following error on running simplestorage using hard hat.
Deploying code work perfect. the above error is obtained after the verifying contract line being printed on console

ProviderError: Address 0xc79D032B1f45227808D1bba81678035822F0abcd is not whitelisted at HttpProvider.request (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/http.ts:78:19) at LocalAccountsProvider.request (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/accounts.ts:188:34) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) at retrieveContractBytecode (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/node_modules/@nomiclabs/hardhat-etherscan/src/network/prober.ts:59:27) at SimpleTaskDefinition.verifySubtask [as action] (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/node_modules/@nomiclabs/hardhat-etherscan/src/index.ts:216:31) at Environment._runTaskDefinition (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/runtime-environment.ts:219:14) at Environment.run (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/runtime-environment.ts:131:14) at verify (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/scripts/deploy.js:23:5) at main (/Users/username/Desktop/web3/hardhat-simplestorage/scripts/deploy.js:15:5)

[alymurtazamemon]

@adinarayanan2003 Please provide the minimalistic reproducible code.

[alymurtazamemon]

@adinarayanan2003 Can you provide your repository link?

[adinarayanan2003]

https://github.com/adinarayanan2003/solidity_beginner/tree/main/simplestorage-in%20hardhat

[alymurtazamemon]

https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/address/0xd531D6D99d2974884E58d0859626E543b0494cDa#code

@adinarayanan2003 Going to do a pull request to your repo, I have edited some things, you can verify with your previous code.

[alymurtazamemon]

@adinarayanan2003 And please create a separate repo for each project, it helps in collaboration, otherwise, like me, others also will have to download all of your previous projects just to fix one project.

[alymurtazamemon]

@adinarayanan2003 I also left the .env file so you can just use it and replace the dots with your keys.

[krakxn]

1. Send deploy.js and hardhat.config.js here
2. Are you deploying on a local network?

[krakxn]

You sure? Did you do --network rinkeby?

Also, add this in the function signature: if (network.config.chainId === 5 && process.env.etherscanapi) and of course, should have an Etherscan API key in the .env file

[adinarayanan2003]

yes.

i did use --network rinkeby . my contract got deployed in rinkeby too. issue is with verification only.

my dotenv seems to be not working so I added the apis directly in the config.js and avoided the condition inside if. But that should't be the factor since Ive added the API key in config.

[alymurtazamemon]

@adinarayanan2003 I have answered above, verify it and let me know the result.

[krakxn]

yes.

i did use --network rinkeby . my contract got deployed in rinkeby too. issue is with verification only.

my dotenv seems to be not working so I added the apis directly in the config.js and avoided the condition inside if. But that should't be the factor since Ive added the API key in config.

Did you try the new function signature too with the process.env.etherscanapi (as defined above)?

[adinarayanan2003]

yes I did