pinkdiamond1 / steem-python

The official Python (3) library for the Steem Blockchain.

Official Python STEEM Library

steem-python is the official Steem library for Python. It comes with a BIP38 encrypted wallet and a practical CLI utility called steempy.

This library currently works on Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6. Python 3.3 and 3.4 support forthcoming.

Installation

With pip:

pip3 install steem      # pip install steem for 2.7

From Source:

git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem-python.git
cd steem-python
python3 setup.py install        # python setup.py install for 2.7

Homebrew Build Prereqs

If you're on a mac, you may need to do the following first:

brew install openssl
export CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include $CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib $LDFLAGS"

CLI tools bundled

The library comes with a few console scripts.

• steempy:
  • rudimentary blockchain CLI (needs some TLC and more TLAs)
• steemtail:
  • useful for e.g. steemtail -f -j | jq --unbuffered --sort-keys .

Documentation

Documentation is available at http://steem.readthedocs.io

Tests

Some tests are included. They can be run via:

• python setup.py test

TODO

• more unit tests
• 100% documentation coverage, consistent documentation
• migrate to click CLI library

Notice

This library is under development. Beware.