scrypt to get last STEEM blockchain active users

Hello folks,

I've written a very simple python script, it needs STEEM PYTHON API installed.

The script is an infinite loop that extract all the last hour active users on the STEEM blockchain, and adds them into a file. Every hour it keeps adding users that are not on the file already, and that have done some activity recorded in the blockchain.

The script is very simple, and not "elegant" at all, but I wrote it in 20 minutes, so please be patient about this, I'll try to update it, and get it a bit more "elegant" when I'll get some time, for now it does it job with no issue ;)

here it is:

from steem import Steem

from steem.blockchain import Blockchain

import time

import re


b=Blockchain()

s=Steem()


def hour_active():

    bl_num=int(b.get_current_block_num())

    bl_num_=bl_num-1250

    bl=(str(s.get_blocks_range(bl_num_,bl_num)))


    x=('follower','account','voter','from','author')

    account=[]

    for i in x:

        acc=re.findall('"'+i+'":"(.+?)"',str(bl))

        for l in acc:

            if l not in account:

                account.append(l)

        

    file=open('active_acc.txt','r')

    old=file.readlines()

    file.close()

    file=open('active_acc.txt','a')



    for i in account:

        if i+'\n' not in old:

            file.write(str(i)+'\n')

    file.close()

    print ('one hour accounts',len(account))

    print ('total accounts',len(old))


counter=1

while True:

    print (counter)

    try:

        hour_active()

    except Exception :

        pass

        print ('FAILED')

    counter+=1

    print ('__________________________')

    time.sleep(3600)

here my repository on GitHub if you prefer to check it there:

https://github.com/digital-mine/get_steem_active_users

That's all folks

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