How can I get all the NFTs for a creator address?

Question

I'm interested in retrieving all the NFTs associated with a specific creator address. I'm looking for a method or approach to gather comprehensive information about the NFTs owned or created by a particular address. If you have any suggestions or recommendations on how to achieve this, I would appreciate your insights - elchuo160

Answer 1

You should be able to use the Metaplex SDK with an RPC provider like QuickNode.

Here's an example:

const connection = new Connection(clusterApiUrl("rpc_url_here"));
const keypair = Keypair.generate();

const metaplex = new Metaplex(connection);
metaplex.use(keypairIdentity(keypair));

const mintAddress = new PublicKey(
  "address_here"
);

const nft = await metaplex.nfts().findByMint({ mintAddress });

console.log(nft.json);

You can get the data using that route, but to get it faster without any hassle, you can use a custom method qn_fetchNFTsByCreator from QuickNode. In that way you can use the RPC endpoint to call the native Solana JSON-RPC methods too.

Here's the code example in JavaScript:

const axios = require("axios");
(() => {
  const config = {
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
  };
  const data = {
    jsonrpc: "2.0",
    id: 1,
    method: "qn_fetchNFTsByCreator",
    params: [
      {
        creator: "DznU28LgherhU2JwC2db3KmAeWPqoF9Yx2aVtNUudW6R",
        page: 1,
        perPage: 3,
      },
    ],
  };
  axios
    .post("quicknode_rpc_url", data, config)
    .then(function (response) {
      // handle success
      console.log(response.data);
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      // handle error
      console.log(err);
    });
})();

Answer 2

You can use the findAllByCreator method from @metaplex-foundation/js

import { Metaplex } from "@metaplex-foundation/js";
import { Connection, clusterApiUrl } from "@solana/web3.js";

const connection = new Connection(clusterApiUrl("mainnet-beta"));
const metaplex = new Metaplex(connection);

const nfts = await metaplex.nfts().findAllByCreator({ creator });

https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/js#findallbycreator

The findAllByCreator method accepts a public key and returns all NFTs that have that public key registered as their first creator. Additionally, you may provide an optional position parameter to match the public key at a specific position in the creator list.

Answer 3

Metaplex function might fail if creator has too many NFTs. If you get stuck with that, you can use metaboss alternatively. That's Cli tool.

https://metaboss.rs/snapshot.html