beem is a python library for accessing the steem blockchain. I build beem from scratch using python-bitshares as template. At the moment, beem is not really used, as the github has around 1 unique visitor each day and thats maybe me. The newest version of beem is 0.19.19.

I created a discord channel for answering question or discussing beem: https://discord.gg/4HM592V

beem is not a copy of python-steem, thus the classes and functions are different. beem is almost feature complete and should be able to do all things that python-steem can do. Differences to python-steem:

I decided to create an own library for steem and not participating to python-steem by pull-requests for the following reasons:

• as python-steem is the official library, all changes have to be reviewed carfully. This takes a lot of time.
• python-steem is used by many, therefore it is not possible to change classes or functions easily.
• I like it to have my own repo, in which I can do what I want :).

beem is open source, so my work may improve python-steem.

Changes

Sync changes from python-graphenelib

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/e9f07b48478c0f59ae625ef397c4a727d44723f0

Remove register_api and api_id calls

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/69948415b7fc403e11a3198066e3cc3d8f4100e2
• All rpc calls are handled with direct api call. Register api was a relict from bitshares.

Import Wallet changes from bitshares and bug fixes

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/af565903fe916f35c15e28165a5efda48d9bc0f2
• Nodes can be given as ,or ; seperated string
• is_connected added in steem

Removed not used classes

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/f8f33b3426d76683d7ea38235e0c0a55fe8b2128

Improved test coverage

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/8559d6da01907f8fe2bc348bf5cb7009fc1f64a2
• Fix vote tests
• improved transactionbuilder tests
• Improved detection of MissingRequiredActiveAuthority

Several changes and improvements

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/cdd778096a04cf4b922b67a54b6028fa6f9299a1
• Fix blocks for threaded and batched calls
• add blockchain_version function on steem
• Fix node input on graphenerpc
• Improve benchmark_nodes
• Add unit tests for bateched and threaded blocks calls
• Use https://api.steemit.com as default appbase node

Update test_steemnoderpc.py

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/68cad02f65701c31a63472606824b906432f1fec

Fix depreated function warning

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/e3262e45bfa809381c7cc9422059e1165b3a71ee
• Improve blockchain unittests

Improve coverage of test_cli

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/712a81745c2fe35cad05fc2447592cd06b362e9a

Improve coverage for Price

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/c3fb3fccde1866cc995a9c87663c378f5230937c

Move post and comment_options to steem class

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/9fb1330590c25736adcbe74040a093a82d446189
• RecentReplies improved
• Comment init improved
• test coverage for comment and steem improved.

Improve coverage for steem

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/de8527ffd04f6cac5698438b7929726ecb79d65c

Remove steemitstage and improve coverage for steemnoderpc

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/988ff02990eccc42dfdd072ab9c772760bcbb96d

Improvements for blockchain parameter reading and nodes benchmark

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/582f3414cc9b6ac2e3fed8899acd8bb172b880af

steem

• Robustify reading of blockchain parameters

utils

• improve formatTimedelta output

Examples

• improve benchmark_nodes by added account history

Speedup wait_for_and_get_block

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/421627a93cb8f12f814aaea654919b7e19e9fc3f

blockchain

• reduced times in which get_current_block_num is called
• when last_fetched_block_num is given, get_current_block_num is only called when block_number is greater than last_fetched_block_num

storage

• default nodes list enhanced

steemnoderpc

• Service Temporarily Unavailable and Bad Gateway added to exception detection

graphenerpc

• check for Service Temporarily Unavailable and Bad Gateway
• Improved handling of Client returned invalid format. Expected JSON! when output is int

Unit test

• test_utils fixed

num_retries improved

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/3ff0b8904bdf36acd8467fcf90cd2bd28e87f45e

Steemnoderpc

• self.errror_cnt_call used instead of local variable doRetryCount

Graphenerpc

• num_retries_call added for setting a max number of retries on a rpc call
• self.n_urls added for getting the number of given nodes
• sleep on retry removed, when switching over to the next node
  self.error_cnt_call used for counting rpc call retries

rpcutils

• sleep_and_check_retries improved

Unit tests

• num_retries added
• test_golos reduced

Add option to set block_numbers as start and stop in history and history revers

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/8fc729be60c8c61439e70356f71304498d7eae27

Account

• add option use_block_num to history, history_reverse and get_account_history

Reduce duplicate code

• https://github.com/holgern/beem/commit/8d6478e7eb2a9fc4e6d4e55359088e6dca431fc6

Wallet

• reduce code duplication

operations

• reduce code duplication