SEARCH Your OLD POSTS with this EXTREMELY EASY to USE TOOL - a Qreview
Summary
Recently a new tool was created based upon the request of a fellow Steemian who wanted the ability to search older posts based on user and tag (post here).
'Steem Tag Search' was born
A very simple and very easy to use tool with which you can search posts by user with a specific tag.
I use other tools as well for curation, but plan to start using this tool more frequently as well, even if it would be finding my own older posts only.
Steem Tag Search
Steem Tag Search allows the search for historical posts based on two parameters:
- Username
- Tag
When only searching on username, the tool gives all the tags used by the author in previous posts. An example is shown in the image below where I searched on my own username @edje.
Clicking on one of the tags, will return all the posts I've created using that particular tag. The image below shows an example in which I searched in my historical posts with the tag 'music'.
Note: The same results are given when I would have clicked on the music tag in the tag listing in image above (3rd tag int he first row).
Steem Tag Search Website Address
Test Results
The tool is very simple to use and the results are generated very fast.
Expect some delay between your last post and inclusion in the results when searching. This maybe 24hrs or more (one of my posts done about 48hrs ago is included, while the other one isn't). However, I do see this as a minor glitch since such recent posts are pretty easy to find in other ways.
It is however a very limited tool with which usernames and tags need to be typed in every time you want to do a search. No presets or bookmarks are available.
I would love to see some additional features, to start with:
- post dates in the results
- post results regardless of tag, ie all posts by author
- title/keyword search
- comment search
I think I will use this tool to search my own historical posts. For that purpose it is an excellent tool! I may use it also for other purposes, only time will tell.
Roadmap
The creator of the tool announced this to be the start of a new tool and wishes to have this tool being part of the Steemit User Interface. That essentially says further development is planned. However, a roadmap is not provided.
Creator/Credits
Steem Tag Search is a tool created by @kasperfred. All credits to @kasperfred for creation of this tool and making it available to us.
Working for me. Do you plan to share the source code?
I'm not the developer, as I mentioned in the post. So when you like to have the source code, please reach out to @kasperfred Cool you like the tool though. I was tool by the developer he is planning enhancements.
Some of the things suggested here are definitely possible like post dates in the results, and post by author.
Others would require an extensive rewrite of the application, and would result in it being a lot slower.
The application is indeed under active development, but I do not have any timeframe for when new features will be implemented. I will, however, post updates on my steemit blog whenever substantial new features are added.
The post date and all post by author would already be great additions. I realise the keyword search will require quite a bit of work and hardware power. Steemit Google Search does something, but I dont like that one. Other curator tool are not implementing this as well. Not sure how big the content part of the Steem blockchain already is, but would it be a solution to give the keyword search feature a go at a local downloaded Steem Blockchain? I would use it, if somehow the HDD/SSD space is limited to eg 50GB.
The problem with the blockchain is that it's huge and only indexed by time, so it's very, very slow to parse.
That's why I use the steemdata database for this project (which is why new posts don't show up immediately). I'm experimenting with lazy parsing of the blockchain for another project that requires it. If it works, I may be able to port it over to this one as well.
The keyword search is possible, but with the current hosting solution (the free one) would take too long to process, and I don't really have the funding to scale yet.
I realise that; Reason why I suggested local Blockchain making it an 'offline' tool using local HW instead of central HW.
I still would think this requires quite a bit of HW when done centrally.
No I don't mean size. Size isn't the problem as I'm able to stream it from some very generous people.
It's simple processing power. I currently can't process more than about 25 blocks per second on my laptop (what most people would use), so a local blockchain wouldn't help, but lazy parsing might.
ok, cool. Looking forward to the possibilities in the future.
Nice one man, thanks for sharing. Upvoted, peace. ;)
Great thanks for your comment and hope you find the tool useful.
I'm looking trough ur profile right now. U got some nice posts man, thanks again. ;)
Great post, awesome tool, thanks for highlighting @edje
Thanks @uwelang ...glad you like it. Have fun with it! Some music post just out: Vangelis this time...a golden one from the past :)
I saw this on @papa-pepper 's post, cool stuff by @kasperfred, and he finished it so FAST! Thanks for sharing.
Indeed; I was very happily surprised when seeing such quick turn around.
This would definitely be an extremely helpful tool, especially if I found authors with interesting perspectives on an idea. Again, I believe in the potential of Steemit with talented developers like @kasperfred working on tools to improve the overall user experience. Kudos to the community!
Super you like this tool. I think it'll help older posts to not be lost 'forever'. Enjoy the tool.
This is indeed a very helpful post and I will try the tools
You will like them! :)
Perfect !!!
You tried it already? Is easy and good as it is already; And I hope some more stuff will be added to it like I mention in the post.
great new tool, thanks for letting us know about it!
You're welcome. I love this tool to be further developed. Made some suggestions in the post. Please add your suggestion in a comment, if you have them. I'll reach out to the developer. You may do that yourself as well :)
Ok good idea, I'll try it soon and see if I have any other ideas to add
Success and NJOY :)
Handy. Toppie!
Super handig idd :) Deze is ook erg handig overigens (click here) en deze is erg leuk (click here).
The first one i knew (have read in your blog from 2 days ago) and tried out already. Perfect.
Second one I missed. Still so much to learn ... and so little time, pfff. Thanks @edje
You're welcome. Take it one step at the time in your learning!