# eth\_getStorageAt (BSC)

**Parameters**

* `DATA`, 20 Bytes - address of the storage.
* `QUANTITY` - integer of the position in the storage.
* `QUANTITY|TAG` - integer block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", see the [default block parameter.](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/apis/json-rpc/)

**Returns**

* `DATA` - the value at this storage position.

**Example**

Calculating the correct position depends on the storage to retrieve. Consider the following contract deployed at `0x295a70b2de5e3953354a6a8344e616ed314d7251` by address `0x391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298`.

```javascript
contract Storage {
    uint pos0;
    mapping(address => uint) pos1;
    function Storage() {
        pos0 = 1234;
        pos1[msg.sender] = 5678;
    }
}
```

Retrieving the value of `pos0` is straight forward:

**Request example**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Curl" %}

```bash
curl https://bsc.api.watchdata.io/node/jsonrpc?api_key=your_api_key
-X POST \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "eth_getStorageAt", "params": ["0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001000", "0x0", "latest"], "id": 1}'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Postman" %}

```json
URL: https://bsc.api.watchdata.io/node/jsonrpc?api_key=your_api_key
RequestType: POST
Body: 
{
    "jsonrpc":"2.0",
    "method":"eth_getStorageAt",
    "params":["0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001000", "0x0", "latest"],
    "id":1
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Result**

```javascript
{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "result": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"
}
```

Retrieving an element of the map is harder. The position of an element in the map is calculated with:

```javascript
keccack(LeftPad32(key, 0), LeftPad32(map position, 0))
```

This means to retrieve the storage on `pos1[“0x391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298”]` we need to calculate the position with:

```javascript
keccak(decodeHex("000000000000000000000000391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298" + "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"))
```

The geth console which comes with the web3 library can be used to make the calculation:

```bash
> var key = "000000000000000000000000391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298" + "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"
undefined
> web3.sha3(key, {"encoding": "hex"})
"0x6661e9d6d8b923d5bbaab1b96e1dd51ff6ea2a93520fdc9eb75d059238b8c5e9"
```

Now to fetch the storage:

**Request example**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Curl" %}

```bash
curl https://ethereum.api.watchdata.io/node/jsonrpc?api_key=your_api_key
-X POST \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "eth_getStorageAt", "params": ["0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001000", "0x6661e9d6d8b923d5bbaab1b96e1dd51ff6ea2a93520fdc9eb75d059238b8c5e9", "latest"], "id": 1}'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Postman" %}

```json
URL: https://ethereum.api.watchdata.io/node/jsonrpc?api_key=your_api_key
RequestType: POST
Body: 
{
    "jsonrpc":"2.0",
    "method":"eth_getStorageAt",
    "params":["0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001000", "0x0", "latest"],
    "id":1
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Result**

```javascript
{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "result": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"
}
```