List of Public Steem Full API Nodes, and Example Usage

In order for Steem apps and sites to work, they must connect to full nodes over an API.

Several witnesses including myself are providing such nodes.

Here are the ones I know of:

Connection	Details
wss://steemd.steemit.com	Provider - @steemit
wss://steemd.steemitdev.com	Provider - @steemit
wss://node.steem.ws ws://node.steem.ws	Providers - @xeroc, @jesta Post - steem.ws - The public steem api cluster Status Page - https://steem.ws
wss://this.piston.rocks ws://this.piston.rocks	Provider - @xeroc Post - This.Piston.Rocks - Public Steem API for piston users and developers
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	Provider - @gtg Post - gtg.steem.house runs a full node with a public steem API
wss://seed.bitcoiner.me ws://seed.bitcoiner.me	Provider - @bitcoiner Post - bitcoiner - Witness Thread Status Page - https://bitcoiner.me

Some nodes have an insecure option (ws) and may be ever slightly faster without the need to encrypt, but the secure option (wss) should be preferred.

I believe these have all common available plugins enabled, such as database_api, login_api, account_by_key_api, follow_api, and market_history_api.

As a note, there are plenty of seed nodes out there, but not all of them expose the RPC port for API calls over WebSockets, which is what frontends use.

Please let me know of any more I may be missing.

Example Usage

curl

To call an API function, say get_version from the login_api, you will use http(s) in place of ws(s):

curl --silent https://steemd.steemit.com --data '{"method": "call", "params": ["login_api", "get_version", []], "id": 0}' | jq

{
  "id": 0,
  "result": {
    "blockchain_version": "0.16.3",
    "steem_revision": "e21a808cb572330ed31ff159a031f3b32c156aeb",
    "fc_revision": "5cfcb5c0d6ee6ba1acbb40d9de49effc25daf74f"
  }
}