Full API node update - 3/6/2018

@fullnodeupdate provides daily updates about the state of all available full API node server.

What is a full RPC node and why it is necessary

A full RPC node contains all STEEM blocks and several databases, in which e.g. account-related transactions, followers for an account, all posts of a blog from an account, .... are stored.
Without nodes, the steemit site would be down, there would be no bid-bots and services as steemauto.com or GINAbot would not work.

Complete RPC node list

All nodes have support for https://. For nodes with websocket support (WSS is yes), wss:// has to put in front. All which have websocket support are checked twice (1x https and 1x wss).
The node version was read out from the server itself, and when this was not possible (node did not respond) a question mark is shown instead.

Server	WSS	Ran By	Info
steemd.privex.io	yes	privex	post
steemd.pevo.science	yes	pharesim	post
rpc.steemliberator.com	yes	netuoso	post
rpc.buildteam.io	yes	themarkymark	post
gtg.steem.house:8090	yes	gtg	post
api.steem.house	no	gtg	post
rpc.steemviz.com	yes	ausbitbank	post
seed.bitcoiner.me	yes	bitcoiner	link
steemd.steemgigs.org	yes	steemgigs	post
steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	yes	followbtcnews	post
rpc.curiesteem.com	no	curie	post
appbasetest.timcliff.com	yes	timcliff	post
api.steemit.com	no	Steemit Inc.	-
api.steemitstage.com	no	Steemit Inc.	-
api.steemitdev.com	no	Steemit Inc.	-

api.steemitstage.com and api.steemitdev.com may contain newer node versions and should be used only with care.

get_config API call

This API call is available on 0.19.3 and 0.19.4 nodes.

List of failing nodes

This table includes a list of all nodes which were not able to answer to a get_config api call within 300 seconds.

node	error
https://steemd.steemgigs.org	NumRetriesReached
https://steemd.pevo.science
wss://steemd.steemgigs.org	NumRetriesReached
https://seed.bitcoiner.me	NumRetriesReached
wss://seed.bitcoiner.me	NumRetriesReached
https://rpc.steemliberator.com	NumRetriesReached
wss://rpc.steemliberator.com	NumRetriesReached

List of working nodes

node	duration [s]	version
wss://rpc.steemviz.com	0.38	0.19.3
wss://appbasetest.timcliff.com	0.43	0.19.4
wss://steemd.pevo.science	0.51	0.19.2
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	0.51	0.19.3
wss://rpc.buildteam.io	0.79	0.19.3
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	0.92	0.19.3
https://api.steemitdev.com	1.73	0.19.4
https://api.steemitstage.com	1.79	0.19.4
https://rpc.buildteam.io	3.43	0.19.3
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	4.22	0.19.3
https://rpc.steemviz.com	4.58	0.19.3
https://rpc.curiesteem.com	8.26	0.19.3
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	9.40	0.19.3
https://appbasetest.timcliff.com	11.14	0.19.4
https://api.steemit.com	33.15	0.19.4
https://api.steem.house	33.92	0.19.4
https://steemd.privex.io	39.21	0.19.2
wss://steemd.privex.io	61.23	0.19.2

Streaming blocks

In this test, it is measured how many blocks a node can stream in 300 seconds.

List of working nodes - block streaming

This table includes all nodes which were able to stream at least one block within 300 seconds.

node	N blocks	Duration [s]
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	866	300.8
wss://steemd.privex.io	855	302.3
wss://steemd.pevo.science	759	300.5
https://api.steemitstage.com	418	302.8
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	310	320.2
https://rpc.buildteam.io	152	302.9
https://api.steem.house	116	318.2
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	78	314.9
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	38	326.6

Account history

In this test, it is measured how many account operation a node can stream in 300 seconds.

List of working nodes - account history

This table includes all nodes which were able to stream at least one account history operation within 300 seconds.

node	N acc hist	Duration [s]
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	130594	303.2
wss://rpc.steemviz.com	130538	301.7
wss://steemd.privex.io	108879	301.7
wss://steemd.pevo.science	108374	301.0
wss://rpc.buildteam.io	106051	300.4
https://api.steemitstage.com	63530	301.4
https://api.steemitdev.com	63227	302.7
https://rpc.buildteam.io	61712	304.2
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	53935	301.7
https://rpc.steemviz.com	47067	305.2
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	26059	310.6
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	23938	309.8
https://api.steemit.com	18686	330.3
https://rpc.curiesteem.com	15555	314.1
https://api.steem.house	13030	304.3
wss://appbasetest.timcliff.com	569	2.9
https://appbasetest.timcliff.com	569	110.8

Receiving a vote, a comment, and an account

In this test, the mean duration to receive an account, a comment, and a vote is measured.

List of working nodes - api calls

This table includes all nodes which were able to answer all three api calls within 300 seconds.

node	Duration [s]
wss://steemd.privex.io	0.055
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	0.061
wss://rpc.steemviz.com	0.121
wss://appbasetest.timcliff.com	0.126
wss://steemd.pevo.science	0.147
wss://rpc.buildteam.io	0.161
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	0.210
https://api.steemitstage.com	0.435
https://rpc.buildteam.io	0.451
https://api.steemitdev.com	0.535
https://rpc.steemviz.com	1.818
https://api.steem.house	2.049
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	3.821
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	3.990
https://steemd.privex.io	3.990
https://appbasetest.timcliff.com	3.999
https://rpc.curiesteem.com	4.106
https://api.steemit.com	11.371

Summary of working nodes

A node is working, when:

• returns data within 300 seconds,
• blocks can be streamed,
• account history is possible,
• votes, a comment, an account can successfully be fetched and are not empty.
  The nodes in the following table are ranked by the mean rank of all three node tables shown above.
  This table includes only nodes which were passing all three tests sucessfully.

node	block rank	hist rank	call rank
wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	1	1	2
wss://steemd.privex.io	2	3	1
wss://steemd.pevo.science	3	4	5
wss://gtg.steem.house:8090	4	7	7
https://rpc.buildteam.io	5	6	8
https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org	7	9	12
https://gtg.steem.house:8090	8	10	11
https://api.steem.house	6	13	10

Set fully working nodes with beempy

https://api.steemitstage.com, https://api.steemitdev.com and nodes with not working results were excluded.

beempy set nodes "['wss://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org', 'wss://steemd.privex.io', 'wss://steemd.pevo.science', 'wss://gtg.steem.house:8090', 'https://rpc.buildteam.io', 'https://steemd.minnowsupportproject.org', 'https://gtg.steem.house:8090', 'https://api.steem.house']"

Receive fully working nodes from json_metadata of the @fullnodeupdate account

The nodes are also stored in the json_metadata variable of the @fullnodeupdate account.
The nodes inside the account metadata are updated every hour.
The json_metadata includes the following data:

• nodes - list of nodes that passed all tests.
• node_version - node version of all nodes that answered the get_config break.
• failing_nodes - list of nodes that did not answer the get_config call.
• block_test - test results of the block streaming test.
• acc_hist_test - test results of the account history streaming test.
• api_call_test - test results of the three api calls.
• parameter - used beem and test parameter.

https://api.steemitstage.com, https://api.steemitdev.com and nodes with not working results were excluded.
Example code for python:

from beem.account import Account
import json
acc = Account("fullnodeupdate")
nodes = json.loads(acc["json_metadata"])["nodes"]
acc.steem.set_default_nodes(nodes)

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