It'll be great one day.
Proof of concept... done.
First step: I want to turn Hive into the most amazing place to backup a podcast.
This is my hacky minimal code to pull an RSS feed from a Hive User's account.
So far the only account with data in it is called learn-to-code
https://github.com/brianoflondon/pod2hive/blob/main/rssfromhive.py
The only thing you'll need is
pip install beem
If you want to see the raw data on the blockchain you can look at it here. You'll see it on the left with "Posting json metadata"
https://hiveblocks.com/@learn-to-code
You can get a json version direct from the web:
https://hive.blog/@learn-to-code.json
To Decode this to RSS you can use the code here:
This site is a rudimentary API server that pulls out the RSS from any Hive account which has one:
http://hive.noagendahost.com/hiverss/v1/rss/learn-to-code
https://github.com/brianoflondon/pod2hive/blob/main/rssfromhive.py
If you're eyes are working, you'll find the PodcastIndex data for my podcast is then followed by a compressed and character encoded (but not cryptographically encoded) block of data that is the RSS feed.
This is the exact transaction on the blockchain which I put in:
https://hiveblocks.com/tx/e83916d2be6e4d87dddab83ca90b8ae17422fb40
The code that writes to the blockchain is:
https://github.com/brianoflondon/pod2hive/blob/main/hiveforpod.py
This code relys on me having entered private posting keys for the "learn-to-code" hive account into something called "beempy" which is a command line interface to store keys on my machine. Only with that on my machine can I post to the blockchain but that is all I require.
You don't need keys or an account to read public data from the chain. I belive there is a simple curl way of accessing this data but I need to do some work on that becuase of the encoding.
This will extract the RSS data from the Chain as well as PodcastIndex's data about the podcast.
curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"database_api.find_accounts", "params": {"accounts":["no-agenda"]}, "id":1}' https://api.hive.blog
The RSS feed is encoded with base64 and zlib compression.
Loads of work needed but I'm on my way.
We want to stream small payments to podcast creators and others involved in the value chain of podcasting.
First