0000000000000010 - Steemchiller's API - Getting Started

As some of you know, I run an initiative within World Of Xpilar to support the community's 💬 Top Commenters. Every 2 weeks, I would scroll through all of the posts within the community then record every single comment made in order to determine the users who are the most active. As I'm sure that you can imagine, this is was a rather time consuming job. Luckily for me, I've got my PHP Dev. Environment set up now so why not play about with steemchiller's API and save myself plenty of hours.

My intention was to use the "getCommentsByTagCreated" API but it didn't return the data that I needed (which could be a bug in the API for steemchiller to look in to at the weekend🪲). So I needed a workaround which involved getting all of the posts in World Of Xpilar (up to a certain date) using "getPostsByTagCreated" API, seeing which authors had created posts and then looping through the comments on those posts instead using "getCommentsByParentAuthor" API.

It was a bit of a long winded way of doing it but it was better to spend the time writing code rather than opening countless posts!

Over 2,000 posts written by nearly 500 authors needed analysing and it took a few minutes for my finished script to run, providing me with an ordered table of WOX's Top Commenters.

I wasn't quite satisfied yet though. When it comes to automated scripts, there's always somebody who tries to cheat the system so I added a link to manually check the output as well as a link to the user's profile showing me all of the comments, their length as well as comments in other communities.

Functional. Certainly not sexy.

A day of coding, familiarising myself with steemchiller's APIs and saving @future-gorilla loads of time that he can spend watching football or doing some exercise - something that @historic-gorilla hasn't done enough of recently.

Now that I've got this up and running, I'm feeling much more confident that I can get an HTML / CSS template populated fairly quickly 🤞