---
title: contracts
description: This page provides technical documentation around functions related to
  cryptocurrency contract addresses. It includes information on how to use Python
  functions for obtaining and sorting contract addresses for any given blockchain
  platform using CoinPaprika as the data source.
keywords:
- cryptocurrency
- contracts
- CoinPaprika
- Python functions
- blockchain platform
- contract addresses
- crypto data
- technical documentation
- sort data
- data export
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Gets all contract addresses for given platform [Source: CoinPaprika]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/coinpaprika_model.py#L400)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.contracts(platform_id: str = "eth-ethereum", sortby: str = "active", ascend: bool = True)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| platform_id | str | Blockchain platform like eth-ethereum | eth-ethereum | True |
| sortby | str | Key by which to sort data | active | True |
| ascend | bool | Flag to sort data ascend | True | True |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | id, type, active |
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Gets all contract addresses for given platform. [Source: CoinPaprika]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/coinpaprika_view.py#L349)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.contracts_chart(symbol: str, sortby: str = "active", ascend: bool = True, limit: int = 15, export: str = "")
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| platform | str | Blockchain platform like eth-ethereum | None | True |
| limit | int | Number of records to display | 15 | True |
| sortby | str | Key by which to sort data | active | True |
| ascend | bool | Flag to sort data ascending | True | True |
| export | str | Export dataframe data to csv,json,xlsx file |  | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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