Package Health Score

52 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Recognized
maintenance
Inactive
community
Limited

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Popularity

Recognized

GitHub Stars: 842
Forks: 517
Contributors: 20

Direct Usage Popularity

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Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: May 29, 2018
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License

MIT

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

No Recent Commits

Open Issues: 58
Open PR: 14
Last Release: 7 years ago
Last Commit: 7 years ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of blockchain based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for blockchain is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to PyPI in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

Community

Limited

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 20
Funding: No

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: ==2.7.*, ==3.0.*, ==3.1.*, ==3.2.*, ==3.3.*, ==3.4.*

Age: 10 years
Latest Release: 7 years ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 12
Maintainers: 0
Wheels: No

Readme

Blockchain API library (Python, v1)

An official Python module for interacting with the Blockchain.info API. Compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3.

Getting started

Installation via pip:

$ pip install blockchain

Manual installation:

$ git clone https://github.com/blockchain/api-v1-client-python
$ cd api-v1-client-python
$ python setup.py install

The module consists of the following sub-modules:

blockexplorer (docs) (api/blockchain_api)
createwallet (docs) (api/create_wallet)
exchangerates (docs) (api/exchange_rates_api)
pushtx (docs) (pushtx)
v2.receive (docs) (api/api_receive)
statistics (docs) (api/charts_api)
wallet (docs) (api/blockchain_wallet_api)

The main module is called blockchain

In order to use createwallet and wallet you need to run an instance of service-my-wallet-v3.

Error handling

All functions may raise exceptions caused by incorrectly passed parameters or other problems. If a call is rejected server-side, the APIException exception will be raised.

Connection timeouts

It is possible to set arbitrary connection timeouts.

from blockchain import util
util.TIMEOUT = 5 #time out after 5 seconds

Request limits and API keys

In order to prevent abuse some API methods require an API key approved with some basic contact information and a description of its intended use. Please request an API key here.

The same API key can be used to bypass the request limiter.

FAQs

What is blockchain?

Blockchain API library (v1). Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for blockchain, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is blockchain popular?

The python package blockchain receives a total of 1,935 weekly downloads. As such, blockchain popularity was classified as a recognized. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is blockchain well maintained?

We found indications that blockchain is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is blockchain safe to use?

The python package blockchain was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 24 December-2024, at 15:23 (UTC).

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