Or something like that. It's a matter of investing another weekend and doing the relevant tests.

This is tested:

import requests

def get_properties(node_url):
    data = '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"database_api.get_dynamic_global_properties", "id":1}'
    response = requests.post(node_url, data=data)
    return response

Save as api.py and import your own custom calls 🙂

response is json, I handle that like this:

import api

def get_last_irreversible_block_num(node_url):
    response = api.get_properties(node_url)
    num = int(response.json()["result"]['last_irreversible_block_num'])
    return num

I think this is clean enough.
Use https://developers.hive.io/ api refenrence for other calls.

Please don't ask me why I called a function get_last_irreversible_block_num 🤣
I just copy pasted this from older code and thought it was a neat example for @slobberchops 😜

However: transaction signing isn't trivial, I'd recommend a library like BEEM.

Sorry for the edits.

Hope this saves someone some time.
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