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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions docs/public-networks/concepts/transactions/pool.md
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Expand Up @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ You can configure and monitor the transaction pool using the following methods,
| Method | [`txpool_besuTransactions`](../../reference/api/index.md#txpool_besutransactions) | API method to list transactions in the transaction pool. |
| Method | [`txpool_besuStatistics`](../../reference/api/index.md#txpool_besustatistics) | API method to list statistics of the transaction pool. |
| Method | [`txpool_besuPendingTransactions`](../../reference/api/index.md#txpool_besupendingtransactions) | API method to list pending transactions in the transaction pool. |
| Method | [`txpool_content`](../../reference/api/index.md#txpool_content) | API method to list all pending and queued transactions in the pool, grouped by sender address and nonce. |
| Subscription | [`newPendingTransactions`](../../how-to/use-besu-api/rpc-pubsub.md#pending-transactions) | RPC subscription to notify of transactions added to the transaction pool. |
| Subscription | [`droppedPendingTransactions`](../../how-to/use-besu-api/rpc-pubsub.md#dropped-transactions) | RPC subscription to notify of transactions dropped from the transaction pool. |
| Option | [`--tx-pool`](../../reference/cli/options.md#tx-pool) | Option to specify the type of transaction pool to use. |
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### `txpool_content`

Returns all pending and queued transactions in the pool, grouped by
sender address and sorted by nonce.

#### Parameters

None

#### Returns

`result`: _object_ - transaction pool content object with the following fields:

- `pending`: _object_ - map of sender addresses to maps of nonces to [transaction objects](objects.md#transaction-object),
for transactions pending inclusion in the next block

- `queued`: _object_ - map of sender addresses to maps of nonces to [transaction objects](objects.md#transaction-object),
for transactions scheduled for future execution

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```bash
curl -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"txpool_content","params":[],"id":1}' http://127.0.0.1:8545/ -H "Content-Type: application/json"
```

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```json
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "txpool_content", "params": [], "id": 1 }
```

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```json
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": {
"pending": {
"0xfe3b557e8fb62b89f4916b721be55ceb828dbd73": {
"6": {
"blockHash": null,
"blockNumber": null,
"from": "0xfe3b557e8fb62b89f4916b721be55ceb828dbd73",
"gas": "0x5208",
"gasPrice": "0xab5d04c00",
"hash": "0xb7b2f4306c1c228ec94043da73b582594007091a7dfe024b1f8d6d772284e54b",
"input": "0x",
"nonce": "0x6",
"to": "0xf8be4ebda7f62d79a665294ec1263bfdb59aabf2",
"transactionIndex": null,
"value": "0xde0b6b3a7640000",
"v": "0xfe8",
"r": "0x5beb711e652c6cf0a589d3cea904eefc4f45ce4372652288701d08cc4412086d",
"s": "0x3af14a56e63aa5fb7dcb444a89708363a9d2c1eba1f777c67690288415080ded"
}
}
},
"queued": {
"0x1932c48b2bf8102ba33b4a6b545c32236e342f34": {
"12": {
"blockHash": null,
"blockNumber": null,
"from": "0x1932c48b2bf8102ba33b4a6b545c32236e342f34",
"gas": "0x15f90",
"gasPrice": "0x2cb417800",
"hash": "0x7b959f5d8d906b74f646b9e6c43d808c3a13f72ae39ee2ca5531f6a83e38e0cf",
"input": "0x",
"nonce": "0xc",
"to": "0x27f1e53f9861ab84aa62a2c8b9f5f0617edddfeb",
"transactionIndex": null,
"value": "0x0",
"v": "0xfe7",
"r": "0x78c32e3f5bba7cf08b2700c3ca37a2c80d2f073ff9b47f54e31d64e05e0a5b3d",
"s": "0x517a04dbc67f9de1f76d5e3d3a1b0fda61869b8fad04bef40f07e24e10cbfdee"
}
}
}
}
}
```

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### `txpool_status`

Returns the number of pending and queued transactions in the pool.
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