Meeseeker on Hive

[inertia]

Meeseeker is a tool that will stream the blockchain to a redis datastore. It allows multiple apps to point at redis (with PUB/SUB) instead of streaming the blockchain directly.

If you'd like to run Meeseeker on Hive, here's the quickstart:

gem install meeseeker

Then start a sync on Hive by specifying the node:

MEESEEKER_NODE_URL=https://api.openhive.network meeseeker sync

That's it. If you've already installed meeseeker prior, no need to update. It just works.

If you don't have meeseeker, the gem command, head on over the README to solve that.

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Comments

[leprechaun]

I just checked out what this thing does in that README file. Looks like a great way to reduce load on RPC nodes. Does it rely on a specific RPC or WebSocket node?

[inertia]

It relies on http. WebSocket is not typically deployed for Steem these days and I don't think it ever will be for Hive. Although, if you really want to, you could deploy lineman to provide WebSocket for apps that need it.

Meeseeker could indeed reduce RPC load, but the main goal is to benefit app developers who may run many services.

It's might even be possible to index the entire blockchain. A more reasonable solution, in that regard, would be if an exchange captured every op, but then only marked transfers they cared about, so they would never expire. Then, they could easily look up a transfer by trx_id.

[freddio.sport]

Hello mister Meeseeks,

welcome to hive :)

[lukmarcus]

I think it would be better to include this information on GitHub - there is still nothing about Hive. I'm writing this because I would like to add Meeseeker to HiveProjects.

[htooms]

Hey Inertia. I took a functioning DrPhil installation (Debian - Linux - voting on the steem chain) and I changed the redis url and the url inside drphil.yml in order to covert the drphil install to vote on Hive.

I am getting an error when after it waits and is about to cast a vote.

I did, "gem install meeseeker"
I did, "MEESEEKER_NODE_URL=https://api.openhive.network meeseeker sync"

And the bottom of the yml looks like...

:meeseeker_options:
:url: redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0
:chain_options:
:chain: steem
:url: https://api.openhive.network

The error

#<Steem::ArgumentError: {"error":"condenser_api.broadcast_transaction_synchronous: unknown key:unknown key: (or content has been deleted)"}>htooms voting for @acidyo/i-decided-to-write-a-quick-summary-on-r-cryptocurrency-about-the-shitshow-lately

I know the keys are good. Let me know if you have any ideas.

[inertia]

You might have a better time leaving meeseeker disabled. E.g.:

# See: https://github.com/inertia186/meeseeker
# :meeseeker_options:
#   :url: redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0

:chain_options:
  :chain: steem
  :url: https://api.openhive.network/

And for the moment, you do indeed need to keep :chain: steem in the config. I am working on getting Radiator to recognize hive, but for now, you just need to point at a hive node.