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RE: Proposals: STEEM citizenship comes with both rights and responsibilities
Ah, I can't help you much with Python. Anything I do with Steemit is either with Condenser (on the main site) or via PHP / JavaScript and I predominantly use steemchiller's API (for reading data anyway)
I'm sure that I saw a superior Python library but can't remember where. I don't think it's been checked for security vulnerabilities but I think it's had a lot of work. @moecki might remember where it is.
Well, I have working knowledge of both JS & PHP but Python... is just more fun :D
Perhaps you mean the Beem library? It's also quite old now and what I don't like about it, it works both on STEEM and HIVE, so potentially unsafe too. Probably I am just too cautious. :D
Condenser - I suppose you're the perfect person to ask to confirm there are already many differences between the Dev Portal docs and the up-to-date methods? :)
Thinking more of it - a new proposal for maintaining the Dev Portal makes sense and while I would normally hesitate to do real development work, I would love to spend some time working on updating the docs.
I’d like to think that’s something that would get support.
I’ve not looked - if I need to do something, I’ll see how it’s done elsewhere or find an equivalent. Some of the communication with Hivemind is something I’ll try to understand better this year but other than the /tags fix, I’ve not needed much knowledge of that yet. Although my introduction of avatar and cover images in communities which crashed the site might have benefited from this capability!
For my own projects, I use steemchiller’s API for reading data and steemjs for broadcasting.
I see some differences that I don't understand yet.
For instance, a json request to condenser_api.get_account_count results at the moment:
1930142 (when I use https://steemd.steemworld.org )
and
3655647 (when I use https://api.steemit.com )
More confusion in. :D
2M accounts sounds more realistic :)
Good question that I can't answer! It could be related to the Hivemind database that each API is querying. api.steemit.com is guaranteed to contain everything but it's more likely to be a slower API. So 3.6m is probably true.
I don't know... I mean about that number. I guess I have to write a small script that loops all the APIs and calls that same method. Some other basic methods as well, to compare the output and the execution times, perhaps that would be useful.
By the way, another major block of info that the Dev Portal lacks, is Glossary with all the building blocks of STEEM such as, what's Condenser, what's Hivemind. There is a glossary right now but it's missing a lot...
I need that information. I currently just run condenser on my localhost. I initially did this through Docker but it was faaaaar too slow so I eventually managed a workaround.
I'd like to know how all of the parts link together. I'd like to fix the search box at the top of the screen but that's another repository too - and I also think it's another link into Hivemind. So much to learn and understand and so little documentation to help us!
Same!
Probably a diagram to see that all in one glance would be perfect, I haven't seen such so far...
No documentation related proposals. Yeah, I know, that isn't attractive nor interesting but has to be done, otherwise it all soon be just spaghetti :)
I've done my best to document the work that I've done so far - including an initial review of Condenser's layout. Having worked on it for a while now, I'm not sure how helpful that was but you might find something useful in this "document". It's completely Condenser-centric but you might find some of it interesting nonetheless.