Hey guys
I have pushed a basic version of Harpoon Search to heroku so that others can have a little play.
https://stark-reef-26879.herokuapp.com/
It's pretty basic at the moment and there are a few (a lot of) caveats.
- Max results returned is 50
- Error messages aren't returned correctly to the UI
- Hard to tell when the database is being querie - no real loading screen.
- A few fields are currently disabled and the search fields look pretty crap
- Search fields have no validation on them but it should be pretty obvious what goes in them. If you put the wrong stuff in, you'll get a crappy error.
- It's using steemsql in the background, and this runs ever so slightly behind the blockchain so you might see a slight delay in posts arriving there - at the moment it seems quite far behind so id recomment viewing posts in the last 60 minutes at the moment.
- Clicking the item header takes you to steemit.
- Some image thumbnails won't load in the results but i'm working on a better image parsing system.
- I've also seen cases with the deployed version where no results are being returned - just reload the screen and it seems to sort itself out.
One idea I have had is to integrate this search into SteemBoard when I pick that back up again shortly (https://steemit.com/steem/@markangeltrueman/a-quick-view-of-the-steemboard-user-toolbar) . Having an automatically refreshing feed of the blockchain based on the search parameters you enter here would be excellent I belive.
Enjoy harpooning some posts. I should get a lot of these issues fixed in the next few days.
Cheers
Mark