tldr; Visit this address: https://ex.plorer.xyz/e/{address}.{tokenId} for Ethereum NFT’s, or replace the e with a c for Cardano or p for polygon.
So as I’m slowly, but surely getting into the endless sea of web3 and DeFi, I wondered: How can it be that everyone talks about blockchain as an “open and immutable” data storage, but no-one hardly ever sees it.
That’s when https://ex.plorer.xyz was born. A ‘simple’ project to fetch NFT data directly from the blockchain. Turn’s out: It’s not as simple as it seems, but somehow I’ve got it working quite well.
How to use it?
If you are on OpenSea, you can just replace the opensea.io with ex.plorer.xyz/e and you can see the NFT.
The URL is built in the following way:https://ex.plorer.xyz/ The base URL, followed bye/asset/, c/asset/ or p/asset/ depending on which blockchain your NFT is stored, and then{contract address}/ or {policyId}. on cardano, followed then by{tokenId} or {assetName} . That’s it.
Hard to remember? Not really!
Need an example: https://ex.plorer.xyz/assets/0x60e4d786628fea6478f785a6d7e704777c86a7c6/6540
Previous OpenSea: https://opensea.io/assets/0x60e4d786628fea6478f785a6d7e704777c86a7c6/6540
Need more examples? Here is an article which describes where to get the required address and tokenId, depending on different marketplaces.
Why do you need it?
Well you can use it for everything, but since it fetches the data directly from the blockchain itself, you can see the NFT forever, even if it gets delisted from a Marketplace like OpenSea.
Have questions or found a bug? Write a comment or write a comment under the Reddit post.
