ether-api

Flask based API's to get data from psql database created using ether_sql

Buidl status

Still very much in development

Installation guide

Clone the library

git clone https://github.com/analyseether/ether-api.git
cd ether-api

Create a virtual environment and activate it:

virtualenv -p python3.6 venv
. venv/bin/activate

Install the required dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting up the database

Install postgresql as database:

sudo apt-get install postgresql

Create a new psql user, this prompts for a user password, use the same password in the settings.py file

sudo -u postgres createuser -s -P -e $USER
createdb ether_sql

You can either load the database using the ether_sql library or load the database present in the test folder:

psql ether_sql < tests/ether_sql_test.sql

Running the api's

Run the flask server

export FLASK_APP=api/api.py
flask run

Finally, test the API's

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1.0/current_blockNumber/
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 39
Server: Werkzeug/0.14.1 Python/3.6.6
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:46:58 GMT

[
  {
    "block_number": 5000100
  }