Ability to query ask steem API and display simple results

What is Steem Finder?

Steem finder is a javascript based website which will allow a user to search the STEEM blockchain using the Ask Steem API and display a set of results based on users and posts. Steem Finder will put a front end on all of the various different parameters that can be configured using the Steem API and then following that will provide the ability to view the results within the site on site using the http://steem.esteem.ws/

Currently, within this release I have completed the following:

1. Initial Integration into Ask Steem API to get results based on user input
2. Initial CSS for results and landing page

A screenshot of the current experience can be seen here:

What & How was this created?

The first peice of work was to intergrate the Ask Steem API, the code relating to this can be seen in ask.js (https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/blob/master/js/ask.js) within there I created a function which passes in the users input and goes to the ask steem api to get a list of results, following that I then define the author, title, resultSummary and tags to be used within the result. For each result I create a html element which is placed into index.html. I applied basic styling to show the results for first release.

The code used to generate the results can be seen here:

A screenshot of an individual result can be seen here:

Working Example

You can find a working example of this using the link below:

https://tobias-g1.github.io/steem-finder/

Roadmap

The following are examples of some of the features I hope to implement into this project in the coming weeks:

1. Ability to search post and user
2. Ability to filter based on dtube, utopian, steem
3. Paged results
4. Ability to view post in modal
5. Links to view on busy, steem, it
6. Ability to search by payout, tag, etc.
7. Ability to sort by payout, views, votes
8. Improvements in styling
9. Ability to generate ask steem query to be used on ask steem

Contribute

Contributons made through utopian.io are welcome :D

Commits

The following commits are related to this release:

1. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/652a744939326d6b68d13c36d89dd7dbae4457a6
2. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/70dedc28742e45293b1d840226a7e3b1de117ae4
3. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/da1f649efa1f041681c4e4c0d1b9b7af119d6235
4. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/bb0e8863a3f977ed7b433a727961cd8aa45f7bcb
5. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/7a708035e30c9624c511d7237fab355cbcdc3212
6. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/4b38685dbd25ba0eebfba9d0703b5e2608b0137a
7. https://github.com/tobias-g1/steem-finder/commit/bb66db42ee7cd2748f0af82d1f880b6b136834c0

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