Combining the power of hivemind & steem api’s. Experimenting with hivemind.

Currently I am working on a tool to help curation group curators to qualify a post as a possible good upvote. This can be achieved by setting some variables, which may differ per curation group, and analyzing the results after hitting Validate button.

The tool is already in production and every now and then I post an update with added features. You can check it up by browsing to www.curationassistant.com

From the very start, I had some troubles with collecting data I want. The API’s perform very well, but there is often not an endpoint to retrieve some specific data I want. For these cases, I need to go through the more generic methods and loop through all the data I get in order to achieve what I want. For example, if I want to get all upvotes for account x by account y, I need to loop through all vote actions of account y or loop through all posts by account x. This is a very expensive operation.

Because of this kind of scenarios where data retrieval is costing a lot of resources and time, I decided to get another server and setup & configure hivemind on it. After some attempts I was finally synced with the data on Steem blockchain on my hivemind db instance.

I have already built a feature where I use both data from hivemind and Steem API’s! Soon I will share more details in a more extended post!

Keep steeming pals ;)