How to list following and un-following with Steem-js API

Repository

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

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn that how to get a list of following and un-following with steem-js

Requirements

State the requirements the user needs in order to follow this tutorial.

• Basic knowledge of HTML / CSS / Javascript

Difficulty

• Intermediate

Tutorial Contents

This tutorial will teach you how to get the list of followings from a certain steemit account using this code...

steem.api.getFollowing(follower, startFollowing, followType, limit, function(err, result) {
  console.log(err, result);
});

Let's Begin

I will explain the above code step by step...

• Inside steem.api.getFollowing the first argument is follower : follower is the account for which you want to get followings, For e.g. if I want to see as "genievot" how much people I am following, then inside the first argument we add "genievot" with quotes because the first argument accept string. You can also give values in variables like ` let follower = "genievot";

• 2nd Argument: startFollowing is used to see your followings from any index, If you want to see from start then simply use 0 for the argument. It means start from the 0'th index or 1st value.

• 3rd Argument: followType is used to find for what type of followings you want to get, followType can be "blog" or null. If you want to put blog then use quotes like this "blog" because it accepts a string.

• 4th Argument: limit is used to get your followings in a list up to a certain limit. Max limit is 1000, any greater value than 1000 will return an error. You can have the lowest limit as well.

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Let's Implement this method.

I will use this code but you can change the method parameters accordingly. goto http://steemoc.jaeven.com and use this code. [Steemoc not create by @genievot, it's another developer's project, found in steem projects website.]

let follower = "utopian-io";
let startFollowing = 0;
let followType = 'blog';
let limit = 1000;

steem.api.getFollowing(follower, startFollowing, followType, limit, function(err, result) {
  console.log(err, result);
});

• General info: You will see the list of followings for your whole life if you followed someone once, even after unfollowing it you will see that guy over the following list due to blockchain nature. So what makes the difference in following and un-following? It's what[] key in JSON. what include the data of your following or un-following. That's why we can use "blog" or null for followType argument, It means to either print Following of "blog" or un-following means null.

Proof of Work Done

https://github.com/genievot/SteemUnfollow - used this API method in this open source project.