steem-username-autocomplete-api

This is a auto-complete backend for steem usernames. Almost all 3rd-party steem services asks users their account names. However, most of them don't have any autocomplete.

For steem.rocks I have needed this in the landing page where users types their account names. This will be used in the frontend soon.

This app uses Flask to serve the API, redis to store usernames and auto-completion functionality.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/emre/steem-username-autocomplete-api.git
$ cd steem-username-autocomplete-api
$ virtualenv -p python3.6 autocomplete-api-env
$ source autocomplete-api-env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Indexing the database

$ FLASK_APP=autocomplete_api/app.py flask initdb

Note: Indexing all steem usernames takes 10 minutes on my development setup.

Serving the api

$ FLASK_APP=autocomplete_api/app.py flask run

Try it live

autocomplete.steem.rocks/?username=emr