As some of you might have seen already, I have started to work on the command
line tool piston that helps people to interface with STEEM and is easy to
integrate into your scripts.
After two weeks of coding, piston turned out as a very powerful tool for me
already and I would like to share it with you and continue work on it even more
to grow it into the Swiss army knife for Steem.
Using piston is quite easy, after installation with
pip3 install --user steem-piston
you will get a new executable piston installed in ~/.local/bin. You need to
add the posting private key in wallet import format (wif) with
piston addkey
You will be asked to provide a passphrase for encryption of your new piston
wallet. You can pick an empty password to prevent the prompt in future but make
sure to understand the risk of storing unencrypted private keys on your computer.
After providing your posting key. It will be stored in your local wallet and
you can list your accounts with
piston listaccounts
The account name listed can be used to post, reply, or edit (own) posts using
piston. Try posting a new post with
piston post
Edit a post with
piston edit @author/permlink
Or repy to an existing post (e.g. this post) with
piston reply @xeroc/piston
You can take a look at recent posts by simply using
piston list
The full documentation can (of course) be
found on STEEM and is kept up to date with
github's version.
Well, it's open source and MIT licensed.
There is much that can be added to piston that I can come up with on my own.
But I am sure, the STEEM crowd can come up with may more ways of improving
piston than me alone. You can participate in improving piston by joining
pistonSince I am not getting payed for building this tool directly. I would appreciate
if you upvote this post, as well as posts of major contributors in this
read.
After installation of piston, you can join the discussion with:
piston reply @xeroc/piston
Who can guess what piston stands for? Well, it's not a Swiss army knife :)