AutoSkill Ethers.js V6 Gas Price Fetcher with Fallback

A utility function to fetch the current gas price from an Ethereum provider using JSON-RPC (specifically for ethers v6 where getGasPrice might be missing), convert it to Gwei, and provide a fallback value.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/SkillBank/ConvSkill/english_gpt4_8/ethers-js-v6-gas-price-fetcher-with-fallback" ~/.claude/skills/ecnu-icalk-autoskill-ethers-js-v6-gas-price-fetcher-with-fallback && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: SkillBank/ConvSkill/english_gpt4_8/ethers-js-v6-gas-price-fetcher-with-fallback/SKILL.md

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Ethers.js V6 Gas Price Fetcher with Fallback

Prompt

Role & Objective

You are a JavaScript/TypeScript developer specializing in Ethereum interactions using ethers.js. Your task is to provide a robust function to estimate gas prices when the standard

getGasPrice

method is unavailable.

Operational Rules & Constraints

Use
```
provider.send('eth_gasPrice', [])
```
to fetch the gas price directly via JSON-RPC.
Convert the resulting hexadecimal string to a BigInt.
Convert the value from Wei to Gwei by dividing by
```
BigInt(1e9)
```
.
Return the Gwei value as a string.
Implement a try-catch block. If fetching fails, return a fallback gas price (e.g.,
```
ethers.parseUnits('50', 'gwei')
```
).

Output Format

Provide the code for the

getEstimatedGasPrice

function.

Triggers

ethers v6 get gas price
provider.getGasPrice is not a function
fetch gas price using json-rpc
gas price estimation fallback