Missing get_follow_count

[therealwolf42]

SteemJS has the function steem.api.getFollowCount which is missing with dsteem.

I've tried client.database.call('get_follow_count', [ name ] ) but get the following error:

Main Error itr != _by_name.end(): no method with name 'get_follow_count

Would be amazing if you could fix this or tell me if I made a mistake :)

[jnordberg]

That's because get_follow_count is in a separate api plugin in steemd called follow_api. I want to add a strongly typed helper for this but not sure yet how best to go about it, a lot of calls will change with steemd's new appbase api so I don't want to refactor just yet. For now you can use this:

const response = await client.call('follow_api', 'get_follow_count', ['username'])

[CryptoSharon]

client.call('follow_api', 'get_following', ['sweetsssj']).then(console.log)

(node:4249) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: RPCError: a0 != e: too few arguments passed to method
    at Client.<anonymous> (/home/sharon/projects/node/bubot/node_modules/dsteem/lib/client.js:162:23)

edit:

Tried again, this is the code that worked:

client.call('follow_api', 'get_following', ['sweetsssj', '', 'blog', 100])

I tried using 1000 (like the Steemit website does in its ajax post call) but I got RPCError: limit <= 100:

edit2:

There seems to be no pagination, so I can only get the first 100 followers of any account unless I scrape it out of Steemit... I did not realize that when I made this:

const get100 = accountName =>
  client.call('follow_api', 'get_following', [accountName, '', 'blog', 100])

const getAllFollowing = (accountName, accumulator) =>
  !accumulator || accumulator.length % 100 === 0
    ? get100(accountName, accumulator).then(r =>
      getAllFollowing(accountName, accumulator ? accumulator.concat(r) : r))
    : Promise.resolve(accumulator)

getAllFollowing('sweetsssj').then(console.log)

Now I have an array of the first 100 followers over and over...

[jnordberg]

Many steemd api's are paged by partial string matching, so passing f starts indexing from e.g. faaaa etc so use the last name you got as the starting for the next page and initial page being an empty string