One whole year on steemit today, looking back at my posts.

Today I'm exactly one year on steemit. So I decided to look back a bit and see what posts of mine made me the most in terms of rshares, so I wrote the following short asyncsteem script. The output was rather interesting.

#!/usr/bin/python
from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.logger import Logger, textFileLogObserver
import sys
from asyncsteem import RpcClient


class OneYear:
    def __init__(self, name, accounts):
        self.accounts = accounts
        self.devnull = open("/dev/null","w")
        self.obs=textFileLogObserver(self.devnull)
        self.log=Logger(observer=self.obs,namespace=name)
        self.rpcclient = RpcClient(reactor,
                                   self.log,
                                   nodelist="appbase",
                                   stop_when_empty=True)
    def run(self):
        #bootstrap with get_accounts command
        opp = self.rpcclient.get_accounts(self.accounts)
        opp.on_result(self.process_accounts)
        self.rpcclient()
        reactor.run()
    def process_accounts(self,event,client):
        #process each of the accounts returned.
        for account in event:
            #invoke the get_blog command for each account using 
            #the post_count value
            opp = client.get_blog(account["name"],
                                  account["post_count"])
            opp.on_result(self.process_blog)
    def process_blog(self,event,client):
        #Process all blog posts for an account.
        for blog in event:
            #ignore resteeming from posts by accounts not in our 
            #accounts list and ignore <= 10,000 rshares
            if blog["comment"]["author"] in self.accounts and 
                blog["comment"]["author_rewards"] > 10000:
                    print blog["comment"]["author_rewards"],\
                        blog["comment"]["author"],\
                        blog["comment"]["permlink"]

oneyear = OneYear("oneyear",
                  ["pibara",
                   "pibarabot",
                   "croupierbot",
                   "mattockfs",
                   "engineerdiet"])
oneyear.run()

What the script does is that it fetches the blog posts from each of my five steemit accounts and looks what posts got more than 10,000 RSHARES.

This was the result:

So in terms of subjects, my draft chapter posts of Ragnarok Conspiracy makes up most of the list, followed by two posts worth of asyncsteem and two stats related posts to close the ranks.

With Ragnarok Conspiracy being done and my next novel needing a lot of world building work before I can start writing (unless I decide to turn one of my short stories into a novel next), it might be wise for me to now start to seriously focus on asyncsteem again and on getting some asyncsteem up and running to get my automated flag-war visualisation back up again.

For me, making the little script for looking at my posts for this year reminded me just how much potential this library has already even though there are still quite some features missing.

So, after I have finished up some last lose ends regarding to my novel, I'm definetely going to allocate some time agian to asyncsteem and to getting @pibarabot to do daily or weekly (not sure yet) flag war visualization reports. For now asyncsteem doesn't know how to do transactions yet, so I'll have to do the actual posting using beem for now, but once I've seen that the flag-war visualization runs OK using the blockchain event stream abstraction, I'll be starting on looking into getting a transaction API up and running.

But anyhow, enough about that now. If you want to follow my asyncsteem work, please follow my @mattockfs account, and if you want to witness the updated flag-war visualization when it becomes available, follow @pibarabot. This account shall stay my fiction, scetching and photography only account, so no more nerd talk from now on ;-) Hope I'll figure out soon if my next novel will be a from scratch project (I do have some thoughts, but a lot of world building is needed) or if I want to do a makeover on one of my short stories into a full size novel and start soon spawning draft chapters for that.

It has been an amazing year here on steemit for me. I'm pretty sure my book wouldn't have gotten where it is today without the encouragement and financing from the votes on the posts listed above, that also allowed me to run beta reading competitions.