Added a JSON Endpoint to Witness Stats Website

Some people have been asking for an easy way to get a list of the top Witnesses and their rank. Unfortunately, that is not currently the most straightforward task to accomplish using Steemd. I am going to add some helper function to the existing libraries when I get a chance, but for now, I have gone ahead and created a JSON endpoint at https://witstats.steemliberator.com/witness_list.json that will return the top 200 STEEM Witnesses along with the rest of the information from using get_witness in Steemd.

Hope this helps someone out. At least for data visualizations perhaps.

Example result showing top 3

[{"id":10293,"owner":"jesta","created":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","url":"http://jesta.us","votes":"67578806228145292","virtual_last_update":"231428354168730197243586031","virtual_position":"250230485041391839030184957092083157737","virtual_scheduled_time":"231429686714936703651522770","total_missed":485,"last_aslot":15561631,"last_confirmed_block_num":15501840,"pow_worker":0,"signing_key":"STM6hb6eCjQKtrPwkZcCGvLXchEkJHksHjUakbWzNHDeoBrVTgiUS","props":{"account_creation_fee":"0.200 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":0},"sbd_exchange_rate":{"base":"1.065 SBD","quote":"1.000 STEEM"},"last_sbd_exchange_update":"2017-09-15T23:06:15","last_work":"000000024fdaaa7427e5eea962ee5330966f9a7f8edea18f27abfbb03b620b27","running_version":"0.19.2","hardfork_version_vote":"0.19.0","hardfork_time_vote":"2017-06-20T15:00:00","rank":1},{"id":12336,"owner":"timcliff","created":"2016-10-07T00:02:06","url":"https://steemit.com/witness-category/@timcliff/timcliff-s-updated-witness-application","votes":"67016517770369999","virtual_last_update":"231428354168730197243586031","virtual_position":"248148308633753351522860477530371943233","virtual_scheduled_time":"231429728964994647741866862","total_missed":52,"last_aslot":15561641,"last_confirmed_block_num":15501850,"pow_worker":0,"signing_key":"STM5AVZZA9fJLvMA6de43z43643uXPtAU7gMSLrFJe7VTCi84UvdH","props":{"account_creation_fee":"0.200 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":100},"sbd_exchange_rate":{"base":"1.129 SBD","quote":"1.000 STEEM"},"last_sbd_exchange_update":"2017-09-15T23:55:09","last_work":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000","running_version":"0.19.2","hardfork_version_vote":"0.19.0","hardfork_time_vote":"2017-06-20T15:00:00","rank":2},{"id":12286,"owner":"good-karma","created":"2016-09-08T04:12:18","url":"http://steemit.com/created/good-karma","votes":"65193393197612798","virtual_last_update":"231428354168730197243586031","virtual_position":"208587339164623472042794599151967679187","virtual_scheduled_time":"231430374235815172002923851","total_missed":110,"last_aslot":15561630,"last_confirmed_block_num":15501839,"pow_worker":0,"signing_key":"STM5zNNjMyCKbhcPgo5ca7jq9UBGVzpq6yoaHw1R2dKaZdxhcuwuW","props":{"account_creation_fee":"0.200 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":0},"sbd_exchange_rate":{"base":"0.811 SBD","quote":"1.000 STEEM"},"last_sbd_exchange_update":"2017-09-15T10:15:33","last_work":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000","running_version":"0.19.2","hardfork_version_vote":"0.19.0","hardfork_time_vote":"2017-06-20T15:00:00","rank":3}]

JSON Endpoint

https://witstats.steemliberator.com/witness_list.json

Vote for Hive account@netuoso as Witness

• Go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Find netuoso and click the upvote to the left of my name
• Enter your active private key when the popup appears
• Done