Reliable Event Reading#

Subscription to events, for example using listeners, has proved to be unreliable, especially when high traffic exists on the network.

To reliably read events it is recommended to use the getPastEvents function on web3 contracts.

This function has parameters fromBlock and toBlock so the caller has to keep track of which blocks have already been requested.

The number of blocks the user can request in a single RPC call depends on the configuration of the RPC node being used. In particular, if the node is run with the environment variable WEB3_API set to debug (a so-called "full node"), usually 100 blocks of events can be read in one call. On the other hand, if WEB3_API is set to enabled (a "light node") only 1 block of events can be read.