This article explains how to parse any Solana program transaction to extract meaningful information in a human-readable format using typescript code.
The author explains how the IDL (Interface Definition Language) component is essential in decoding transactions as it provides information about all program instructions, accounts, and events.
The article also provides examples to showcase how to decode the program instructions and parse instruction arguments as well as the events.
To decode the program instructions, the article provides a detailed explanation of them and how to get discriminators using sha256 and derive discriminators from the name for each instruction.
The article shows how to derive the discriminators and schema using borsh. It provides a code for parsing instruction data by taking an actual example of the buySellIxs and how to get solAmount involved in the trade.
The second part of the article focuses on parsing Solana native program transactions, using Raydium v4 AMM as an example.
The article also explains how parsing Anchor program transactions and events can be achieved to extract meaningful information.
The full code for this article is available at Github.
This article can be helpful to those who are interested in Solana blockchain development.
The code can be used with minor alterations for different Solana program transactions and events to extract meaningful information.