How to - steem.js - All post details by upvotes

[drookyn]

Repository

https://github.com/steemit/steem-js

What Will I Learn?

1. How to retrieve any vote a user took
2. How to retrieve details from a post a user voted on

Requirements

• JavaScript (ES6 / ES7) knowledge
• Promises

Difficulty

Intermediate

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In this tutorial I will show you how to get details of posts you upvoted using the steem.js API. Instead of callbacks I will use promises.

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steem.js functions

To retrieve our votes and the corresponding posts we need the following API functions:

• steem.api.getAccountVotes
• steem.api.getContent

These two functions using callbacks to handle asynchrony. As we dont want to end in the "callback-hell" we are going to use promises:

function getAccountVotes(author) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    // get all votes for specific author
    steem.api.getAccountVotes(author, (error, result) => {
      // reject if error
      if (error) {
        reject(error);
      // return votes if success
      } else {
        resolve(result);
      }
    });
  });
}

function getContent(author, permlink) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    // get all details for specific authors post
    steem.api.getContent(author, permlink, (error, result) => {
      if (error) {
        // reject if error
        reject(error);
      } else {
        // return post details if success
        resolve(result);
      }
    });
  });
}

Main code

The previous code retrieves the last ten votes and creates an array of content requests to retrieve all details.

// get all votes for myself
getAccountVotes('drookyn')
  .then((votes) => {
    // get last 10 votes
    const lastTenVotes = votes.reverse().slice(0, 10);
    // return new promise with all detail promises
    return Promise.all(lastTenVotes.map((vote) => {
      const authorPerm = vote.authorperm.split('/');
      return getContent(authorPerm[0], authorPerm[1]);
    }));
  })
  .then(posts => console.log(posts.map(p => p.title))) // log all titles 
  .catch(err => console.log(err));

Other details

We just printed the title of each post in the posts array above. But what else do these objects contain?

• id
• author
• permlink
• category
• parent_author
• parent_permlink
• title
• body
• json_metadata
• last_update
• created
• active
• last_payout
• depth
• children
• net_rshares
• abs_rshares
• vote_rshares
• children_abs_rshares
• cashout_time
• max_cashout_time
• total_vote_weight
• reward_weight
• total_payout_values
• curator_payout_value
• author_rewards
• net_votes
• root_author
• root_permlink
• max_accepted_payout
• percent_steem_dollars
• allow_replies
• allow_votes
• allow_curation_rewards
• beneficiaries
• url
• root_title
• pending_payout_value
• total_pending_payout_value
• active_votes
• replies
• author_reputation
• promoted
• body_length
• reblogged_by

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All the code can be found in this paste.

Comments

[r351574nc3]

Steemit api uses bluebird, so you don't need to wrap with promises. You can just do:

steem.api.getAccountVotesAsync(author)
    .then((votes) => {
        // do stuff
    })

or

steem.api.getContentAsync(author, permlink)
    .then((content) => {
        // do stuf
    })

[mcfarhat]

Thank you for your contribution.
While I enjoyed your work, I would suggest some further improvements to your future contributions, as follows:

• Provide much more visual representations in shape of screenshots, output,...
• When you mentioned the different object attributes being returned, a short explanation would have been helpful
• Try to come up with more innovative and useful ways to utilize steemjs functions, as there has been a decent amount of relevant tutorials.
• Expand the content of your tutorial, it is basically a bit too short.

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[drookyn]

Thank you for your time.
I will work on that in the next contributions.

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