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Full API node update - 31/5/2018

@fullnodeupdate provides daily updates about the state of all available full API node server

What is a full RPC node and why it is necessary

A full RPC node contains all STEEM blocks and several databases, in which e.g. account-related transactions, followers foran account, all posts of a blog from an account, .... are stored. Without nodes, the steemit site would be down, there would be no bid-bots and services as steemauto.com or GINAbot would not work.

Complete RPC node list

All nodes have support for https://. For nodes with websocket support (WSS is yes), wss:// has to put in front. All which have websocketsupport are checked twice (1x https and 1x wss).
The node version was read out from the server itself, and when this was not possible (node did not respond) a question mark is shown instead.

Server	WSS	Ran By	Info
steemd.privex.io	yes	privex	post
steemd.pevo.science	yes	pharesim	post
rpc.steemliberator.com	yes	netuoso	post
rpc.buildteam.io	yes	themarkymark	post
gtg.steem.house:8090	yes	gtg	post
api.steem.house	no	gtg	post
rpc.steemviz.com	yes	ausbitbank	post
seed.bitcoiner.me	yes	bitcoiner	link
steemd.steemgigs.org	yes	steemgigs	post
steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	yes	followbtcnews	post
rpc.curiesteem.com	no	curie	post
appbasetest.timcliff.com	yes	timcliff	post
api.steemit.com	no	Steemit Inc.	-
api.steemitstage.com	no	Steemit Inc.	-
api.steemitdev.com	no	Steemit Inc.	-

api.steemitstage.com and api.steemitdev.com may contain newer node versions and should be used only with care.

get_config API call

This API call is available on 0.19.3 and 0.19.4 nodes.

List of nodes who did not answer

node	error
https://steemd.steemgigs.org	NumRetriesReached
wss://steemd.steemgigs.org	NumRetriesReached
https://seed.bitcoiner.me	NumRetriesReached
wss://seed.bitcoiner.me	NumRetriesReached
wss://rpc.steemliberator.com	NumRetriesReached
https://rpc.steemliberator.com	NumRetriesReached

List of working nodes

node	duration [s]	version
wss://rpc.steemviz.com	0.60	0.19.3
wss://steemd.pevo.science	0.68	0.19.2
wss://rpc.buildteam.io	0.69	0.19.3
wss://steemd.privex.io	0.72	0.19.3
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	0.72	0.19.3
wss://appbasetest.timcliff.com	0.81	0.19.4
https://api.steemitdev.com	1.74	0.19.4
https://rpc.buildteam.io	1.77	0.19.3
https://api.steemitstage.com	1.83	0.19.4
https://api.steemit.com	2.21	0.19.4
https://api.steem.house	2.75	0.19.4
https://rpc.steemviz.com	4.59	0.19.3
https://steemd.pevo.science	5.54	0.19.2
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	9.50	0.19.3
https://steemd.privex.io	10.11	0.19.2
https://appbasetest.timcliff.com	11.13	0.19.4
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	47.17	0.19.3
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	82.13	0.19.3
https://rpc.curiesteem.com	115.75	0.0.0

Streaming blocks

In this test, it is measured how many blocks a node can stream in 60 seconds.

List of working nodes - block streaming

node	N blocks	Duration [s]
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	384	120.4
https://api.steemitstage.com	186	122.7
https://api.steemitdev.com	186	123.4
https://api.steemit.com	181	123.1
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	115	131.8
https://api.steem.house	101	124.8
https://rpc.steemviz.com	47	126.9
https://rpc.buildteam.io	42	123.4
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	33	134.1

Account history

In this test, it is measured how many account operation a node can stream in 60 seconds.

List of working nodes - account history

node	N acc hist	Duration [s]
wss://rpc.steemviz.com	56460	121.9
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	49895	121.5
wss://steemd.privex.io	48986	121.5
wss://rpc.buildteam.io	47976	121.2
wss://steemd.pevo.science	31311	121.1
https://api.steemitdev.com	30099	121.6
https://api.steemitstage.com	29190	121.6
https://api.steemit.com	24140	121.4
https://rpc.steemviz.com	16666	121.6
https://api.steem.house	15050	121.1
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	11919	126.8
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	10606	122.7
https://steemd.privex.io	607	139.8
wss://appbasetest.timcliff.com	566	7.3

Receiving a vote, a comment, and an account

In this test, the mean duration to receive an account, a comment, and a vote is measured.

List of working nodes - api calls

node	Duration [s]
wss://appbasetest.timcliff.com	-1.000
https://steemd.pevo.science	-1.000
wss://steemd.pevo.science	-1.000
wss://steemd.privex.io	-1.000
https://appbasetest.timcliff.com	-1.000
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	0.052
wss://rpc.steemviz.com	0.068
wss://rpc.buildteam.io	0.126
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	0.137
https://rpc.buildteam.io	0.189
https://api.steemitdev.com	0.223
https://api.steemit.com	0.223
https://api.steemitstage.com	0.226
https://api.steem.house	0.304
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	0.393
https://rpc.steemviz.com	0.719
https://steemd.privex.io	1.349
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	1.636
https://rpc.curiesteem.com	3.411

Summary of working nodes

A node is working, when:

• returns data within 60 seconds,
• blocks can be streamed,
• account history is possible,
• votes, a comment, an account can successfully be fetched and are not empty.
  The nodes in the following table are ranked by the mean rank of all three node tables shown above

node	block rank	hist rank	call rank
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	1	2	1
https://api.steemit.com	2	6	6
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	3	9	4
https://api.steem.house	4	8	7
https://rpc.steemviz.com	5	7	9
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	7	10	11

Set fully working nodes with beempy

https://api.steemitstage.com, https://api.steemitdev.com and nodes with not working results were excluded.

beempy set nodes ['wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org', 'https://api.steemit.com', 'wss://gtg.steem.house:8090', 'https://api.steem.house', 'https://rpc.steemviz.com', 'https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org']

Receive fully working nodes from json_metadata

The nodes are also stored in the json_metadata variable in each post from @fullnodeupdate.
Example code for python:

from beem.account import Account
acc = Account("fullnodeupdate")
latest_post = acc.get_blog(limit=1, raw_data=False)[0]
nodes = latest_post.json_metadata["nodes"]
acc.steem.set_default_nodes(nodes)