> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hedera.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Verify Contract (using Solidity metadata.json) > Endpoint to submit a verification with the Solidity [metadata.json](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/metadata.html) ## OpenAPI ````yaml /smart-contract-verification-api.yaml post /v2/verify/metadata/{chainId}/{address} openapi: 3.1.0 info: version: 2.1.0 title: Sourcify APIv2 description: >- Welcome to the Sourcify's APIv2. Important differences between the deprecated legacy API and the new APIv2: - **Ticketing**: The verfication requests resolve into tickets/verification jobs. - Previously the verification happened during the HTTP request, which resulted in timeouts if compilation took longer - **Standard JSON as default**: In the current design we take the standard JSON format as our main verification endpoint. Other methods such as "multi-file" or "single-file" should be handled by frontends or tooling to format into std-json. We still support verification with metadata at `/v2/verify/metadata`. - **Lean API**: We keep the number of endpoints minimal compared to v1. We won't have a session API. - **Detailed contract response**: Prev. we only returned contract files of a contract. Now we can return details at `/contract/{chainId}/{address}`. By submitting source code for verification, you grant Sourcify (and the Argot Collective) a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store, and publicly display the submitted source code for the purposes of verification, archival, and public inspection. license: name: MIT url: https://github.com/argotorg/sourcify/blob/master/LICENSE contact: name: Sourcify url: https://sourcify.dev email: hello@sourcify.dev servers: - url: https://sourcify.dev/server description: Production server security: [] tags: - name: Contract Lookup description: API v2 - Tools and endpoints for looking up contract information - name: Verify Contracts description: API v2 - Submit a contract for verification - name: Verification Jobs description: API v2 - Check the status of a verification job - name: Other description: General server endpoints paths: /v2/verify/metadata/{chainId}/{address}: post: tags: - Verify Contracts summary: Verify Contract (using Solidity metadata.json) description: >- Endpoint to submit a verification with the Solidity [metadata.json](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/metadata.html) operationId: verify-metadata parameters: - name: chainId in: path description: The chainId number of the EVM chain required: true schema: type: string pattern: ^\d+$ minLength: 1 maxLength: 20 example: '11155111' - name: address in: path description: >- Contract's 20 byte address in hex string with the 0x prefix. Case insensitive. required: true schema: type: string pattern: (\b0x[a-fA-F0-9]{40}\b) minLength: 42 maxLength: 42 example: '0x2738d13E81e30bC615766A0410e7cF199FD59A83' requestBody: description: '' content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: sources: type: object description: A mapping from file path to its content. additionalProperties: type: string metadata: type: object description: >- The [metadata](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/metadata.html) as an object. creationTransactionHash: allOf: - type: string title: Keccak256 pattern: (\b0x[a-f0-9]{64}\b) example: >- 0xb6ee9d528b336942dd70d3b41e2811be10a473776352009fd73f85604f5ed206 - description: >- The hash of the transaction that created this contract. Optional. required: - sources - metadata examples: Example 1: value: sources: contracts/Storage.sol: | // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.0; contract Storage { uint256 number; function setNumber(uint256 newNumber) public { number = newNumber; } function getNumber() public view returns (uint256) { return number; } } contracts/Owner.sol: | // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.0; contract Owner { address public owner; constructor() { owner = msg.sender; } } metadata: {} responses: '202': description: >- Successfully submitted the verification. The server started to process the verification. You can follow the verification status via the returned `verificationId` at `GET /v2/verify/{verificationId}` content: application/json: schema: type: object title: VerificationJob properties: verificationId: type: string format: uuid required: - verificationId '400': description: Bad request from the client content: application/json: schema: type: object title: GenericErrorResponse properties: customCode: type: string description: A string token to indicate the reason of the error example: unsupported_chain message: type: string description: The reasoning of the error example: >- The chain with chainId 3153212 is not supported for verification errorId: type: string format: uuid required: - customCode - message - errorId examples: - customCode: unsupported_chain message: The chain with chainId 9429413 is not supported errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 examples: Example 1: value: customCode: unsupported_chain message: The chain with chainId 9429413 is not supported errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 '409': description: The contract is already verified content: application/json: schema: type: object title: GenericErrorResponse properties: customCode: type: string description: A string token to indicate the reason of the error example: unsupported_chain message: type: string description: The reasoning of the error example: >- The chain with chainId 3153212 is not supported for verification errorId: type: string format: uuid required: - customCode - message - errorId examples: - customCode: unsupported_chain message: The chain with chainId 9429413 is not supported errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 examples: Example 1: value: customCode: already_verified message: >- Contract 0xe7f1725E7734CE288F8367e1Bb143E90bb3F0512 on chain 31337 is already verified with runtimeMatch and creationMatch both being exact matches. errorId: 23aaf52e-168a-4cfa-8463-65ddfb792efc '429': description: You are sending too many requests to the server content: application/json: schema: type: object title: GenericErrorResponse properties: customCode: type: string description: A string token to indicate the reason of the error example: unsupported_chain message: type: string description: The reasoning of the error example: >- The chain with chainId 3153212 is not supported for verification errorId: type: string format: uuid required: - customCode - message - errorId examples: - customCode: unsupported_chain message: The chain with chainId 9429413 is not supported errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 examples: Example 1: value: customCode: too_many_requests message: You are sending too many requests errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 '500': description: '' content: application/json: schema: type: object title: GenericErrorResponse properties: customCode: type: string description: A string token to indicate the reason of the error example: unsupported_chain message: type: string description: The reasoning of the error example: >- The chain with chainId 3153212 is not supported for verification errorId: type: string format: uuid required: - customCode - message - errorId examples: - customCode: unsupported_chain message: The chain with chainId 9429413 is not supported errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 examples: Example 1: value: customCode: internal_error message: Something went wrong errorId: 1ac6b91a-0605-4459-93dc-18f210a70192 ````