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Re: BITMAIN announces Antpool
by
organofcorti
on 08/01/2016, 03:26:29 UTC
@BITMAIN

Now you're using cloudflare I can't scrape your block data anymore, and your API is opaque and unnecessarily complicated (ie I can't get it to work) for your block data API. Can't you open up either your pool stats page or make the API more user friendly? I dont think a signature and nonce should be required to view the pool stats API.

I've made an alternative API here because of this issue, although I guess it's useless to you as you were doing it through their website and not their API.

About scraping their blocks, their guide doesn't even document this AFAIK. That's too bad Sad

hey, thanks for responding Matt. I'll check it out when I get home, hopefully I can write a new script to access it. How many of the past blocks does it record?

EDIT: just read https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1309787.msg13407296#msg13407296

It seems that I'd still need to write some script to generate the signature required - any way around that?