> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# getLedgerEntries

For reading the current value of ledger entries directly.

Allows you to directly inspect the current state of a contract, a contract's code, or any other ledger entry. This is a backup way to access your contract data which may not be available via events or [simulateTransaction](/nodeapi/stellar/stellar-rpc-formerly-soroban-api/simulatetransaction)

This method will use `10` [Compute Units](/nodeapi/about/billing).

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## Reference: [Here](https://developers.stellar.org/docs/data/apis/rpc/api-reference/methods/getLedgerEntries)

## **Parameters**

* `keys` *(required)* Array containing the keys of the ledger entries you wish to retrieve. (an array of serialized base64 strings)

## Returns

`entries` array\[object] Hash of the latest ledger as a hex-encoded string

`latestLedger` (number) The current latest ledger observed by the node when this response was generated.

```json theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
// Result
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 8675309,
  "result": {
    "entries":[
      {
        "key": "AAAAB+qfy4GuVKKfazvyk4R9P9fpo2n9HICsr+xqvVcTF+DC",
        "xdr": "AAAABwAAAADqn8uBrlSin2s78pOEfT/X6aNp/RyArK/sar1XExfgwgAAAAphIGNvbnRyYWN0AAA=",
        "lastModifiedLedgerSeq": "13",
        "expirationLedgerSeq": "95"
      }
    ],
    "latestLedger": "179436"
  }
}
```

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash title="mainnet" theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
  curl https://mainnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
      -X POST \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 8675309,
    "method": "getLedgerEntries",
    "params": {
      "keys": [
        "AAAAB+qfy4GuVKKfazvyk4R9P9fpo2n9HICsr+xqvVcTF+DC",
        "AAAABuGr69HGMhJNHrYmkrVICfPPVxkqlKmRGXAskfpmvOyyAAAAFA=="
      ]
    }
  }'
  ```

  ```bash title="testnet" theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
  curl https://testnet.stellar.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
      -X POST \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 8675309,
    "method": "getLedgerEntries",
    "params": {
      "keys": [
        "AAAAB+qfy4GuVKKfazvyk4R9P9fpo2n9HICsr+xqvVcTF+DC",
        "AAAABuGr69HGMhJNHrYmkrVICfPPVxkqlKmRGXAskfpmvOyyAAAAFA=="
      ]
    }
  }'
  ```
</CodeGroup>


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