Relate MVP now released

As the core structures of Relate are stabilizing, I have released the MVP with two very basic endpoints. You can access the node at:

http://relate.imwatsi.com

The most stable datasets right now are those involving tags, so I have availed only two very basic endpoints, that fall under the Conversations API. This project is still in alpha stage so expect more endpoints and further development going forward.

conversations.get_tag_stats

This returns lite stats on how much the tag has been used:

• Total number of posts that used the tag
• Total number of accounts that posted using the tag

Useful when front-ends want to show how many people are using a tag. Similar to how Twitter shows "120 people talking about this."

From this info you can have something like "(120) people talking about this, across (69) posts," for example.

query params

{"tag": ""}

expected JSON response

{"hive":
    {"posts": 1986, "accounts": 1021}
}

example curl

curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"conversations.get_tag_stats", "params":{"tag": "hive"}, "id":1}' http://relate.imwatsi.com

This endpoint is obviously still rudimental and a lot can be done to extend the accuracy and depth of its data.

conversations.get_tags_trending

This returns a list of tags used in posts, sorted by the number of times they have been used. The most used tags will be at the top.

query params

{"limit": int}

expected JSON response

[
    ["palnet", 2773],
    ["neoxian", 1981],
    ["hive", 1679],
    ["photography", 1584],
    ["crystal", 1305],
    ["dtube", 1233],
    ["life", 1228],
    ["creativecoin", 1003],
    ["sportstalk", 831],
    ["blog", 771],
    ["actifit", 742],
    ["art", 734]
]

example curl

curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"conversations.get_tags_trending", "params":{"limit": 12}, "id":1}' http://relate.imwatsi.com

This coming week's scope

• Get a repository up (probably on GitLab)
• Write API documentation
• Implement community-specific contexts for the two endpoints above
• Continue working on expanding datasets and endpoints available

Relate is a content discovery and recommendation engine for social networks on the Hive blockchain.

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