'How to get historical data on transactions performed by smart contracts on Solana?

How shall I go about getting new and historical data from Solana smart contracts? For example, I want to get data on recent swaps on Raydium.

When I developed on Ethereum, I used to parse historical events that are stored on the blockchain. Is there a similar method on Solana?

I would prefer to do it with Python, but other languages will be ok as well.

Solution 1:^[1]

You can use getSignaturesForAddress to get all of the signatures for a specific program, such as the Raydium Program.

You can then use getTransaction to get the details on each transaction. Alternatively you get your own rpc and use the internal bigtable.

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Solution	Source
Solution 1	Jacob Creech