Make an installation procedure.

[mathieulavoie]

Do an installation procedure to get Bitcluster run on your own machine.

[pshenmic]

+1

After installation dependencies:

C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master>start_webapi.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master\start_webapi.py", line 1, in from web.api import app File "C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master\web\api.py", line 3, in from web.dao import getNodeFromAddress, getNodeInformation, getTransations, groupByAllDistribution, groupbyNode, File "C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master\web\web.py", line 2, in from web.dao import getNodeFromAddress, getNodeInformation, getTransations, groupByAllDistribution, groupbyNode, ImportError: No module named dao

I'm developer, but not familiar with python

[mathieulavoie]

@pshenmic You need Python 3 to run the projet. I will add it in the requirements. I did got the exact same issue as you when I did run it with Python 2.7.

[pshenmic]

C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master>py start_website.py

• Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit) 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jul/2016 13:44:47] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jul/2016 13:45:31] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - [2016-07-26 13:45:50,936] ERROR in app: Exception on / [POST] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \flask\app.py", line 1988, in wsgi_app response = self.full_dispatch_request() File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \flask\app.py", line 1641, in full_dispatch_request rv = self.handle_user_exception(e) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \flask\app.py", line 1544, in handle_user_exception reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \flask_compat.py", line 33, in reraise raise value File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \flask\app.py", line 1639, in full_dispatch_request rv = self.dispatch_request() File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \flask\app.py", line 1625, in dispatch_request return self.view_functionsrule.endpoint File "C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master\web\web.py", line 26, in web_ro ot node_id = getNodeFromAddress(address) File "C:\Users\test\Downloads\Bitcluster-master\web\dao.py", line 10, in getNod eFromAddress cursor = db.addresses.find_one({"_id": address}) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\collection.py", line 1014, in find_one for result in cursor.limit(-1): File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\cursor.py", line 1090, in next if len(self.data) or self._refresh(): File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\cursor.py", line 1012, in _refresh self.read_concern)) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\cursor.py", line 850, in __send_message **kwargs) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\mongo_client.py", line 827, in _send_message_with_response server = topology.select_server(selector) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\topology.py", line 210, in select_server address)) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages \pymongo\topology.py", line 186, in select_servers self._error_message(selector))

Where should i place the database? Why there isnt any documentation for this tool? That's confusing

[anton48]

yes, python3 is necessary. and as far as I understand you need mongodb and bitcoind with full node data on the machine.

then you may start build_cluster.py and it will crawl data from bitcoind to mongo.

then you may start start_website.py and open http://127.0.0.1:5000 (or another ip address if it is remote machine, you need to change app.run for that) in the browser.

however, process of crawling failed in my case and web interface says "Invalid or inexistant address" when I checked several addresses.

[mathieulavoie]

@pshenmic: see https://github.com/mathieulavoie/Bitcluster/wiki/Installation-Procedure

@anton48: Building the database from scratch is a bit more complex. I did add a section into the installation procedure. Let me know if you have any question or if something doesn't work,

[anton48]

@mathieulavoie: this is exactly what I did and build_cluster.py script (step 5 of procedure "Creating the database from scratch") failed:

[/home/a48/Bitcluster]# python3.4 ./build_cluster.py 1 Block 1 crawled Block 2 crawled Block 3 crawled [...] Block 117501 crawled Nb addr : 34076 Nb nodes : 24595 Waiting for insertion thread to complete... DB Sync Finished An exception will rise DB Sync Finished

nothing happens after this message for a long time and I pressed ctrl-c. At this point I stopped and was going to investigate the problem later.

[mathieulavoie]

The message shoud be "An exception will rise, press any key to see the Stacktrace". It used to be for debugging purpose during the tool development. I will remove it in the next commit.

[maciekit]

1. After reaching to last block it says

Block 423534 crawled
Block 423535 crawled
Block 423536 crawled
Block 423537 crawled
Block not found

and you have to wait for timeout to have it inserted into db. This could be avoided by checking via rpc how many blocks are there.

2. And maybe you should consider adding second parameter here:

$ ./build_cluster.py 
Usage: python ./build_cluster.py <starting block id> <ending block id>

so user can choose how big range would like to have.