🐝 Bee Py

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• 🐝 Bee Py
  • 📖 Table of Contents
  • 🌐 Overview
  • ✨ Features
  • 📋 Requirements
    • 🚀 Testing Locally
  • 🛠️ Installation
  • 🚀 Usage
    • 🐝 Bee Endpoint
    • 🚀 Bee Debug Endpoint
  • 👩‍💻 Development
  • 🤝 Contributing
  • 📄 License
  • 🐞 Issues
  • 📚 Documentation
  • 👏 Credits

🌐 Overview

This is the library for connecting to Bee decentralised storage using python.

✨ Features

• TODO

📋 Requirements

• Python3.9+

🚀 Testing Locally

• npm
• Bee-factory
• Docker

🛠️ Installation

You can install bee-py via [pip] from [PyPI]:

pip install swarm-bee-py

🚀 Usage

🐝 Bee Endpoint

from bee_py.bee import Bee

bee = Bee("https://18.134.10.41:1633")
# List Tags
all_tags = bee.get_all_tags({"limit": 1000})
print(all_tags) 
>>> [Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=6, uid=2270760008, started_at='2023-12-27T19:00:24Z', total=6, processed=6),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=0, uid=2271272542, started_at='2023-12-09T13:22:52Z', total=0, processed=0),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=3, uid=2272654825, started_at='2023-12-26T22:15:30Z', total=3, processed=3),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=3, uid=2274652661, started_at='2023-12-19T20:27:27Z', total=3, processed=3),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=4, uid=2274680401, started_at='2024-01-05T20:03:17Z', total=4, processed=4),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=16, uid=2274738522, started_at='2023-12-27T00:12:46Z', total=16, processed=16),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=6, uid=2277789382, started_at='2024-01-05T19:30:39Z', total=6, processed=6),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=5, uid=2278169907, started_at='2023-12-27T00:44:34Z', total=5, processed=5),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=1, uid=2278428847, started_at='2023-12-19T01:29:06Z', total=1, processed=1),
 Tag(split=0, seen=0, stored=0, sent=0, synced=1, uid=2280360127, started_at='2023-12-27T16:18:04Z', total=1, processed=1)]

# Random Taken for example
batch_id = "eeba33ebe515c3ca9827a5e82e07987f813966fd39067126b120bcd6cd714ce9"
# Upload Data
upload_result = bee.upload_data(batch_id, "Bee is Awesome!")

print(upload_result)
>>> UploadResult(reference=Reference(value='b0d6b928d0f64fab1a50d37a965515cc6f152d3c27f58fbcefb6b8506f23b076'), tag_uid=None)

print(upload_result.reference)
>>> Reference(value='b0d6b928d0f64fab1a50d37a965515cc6f152d3c27f58fbcefb6b8506f23b076')

print(upload_result.reference.value)
>>> 'b0d6b928d0f64fab1a50d37a965515cc6f152d3c27f58fbcefb6b8506f23b076'

# Both can be done to obtain the reference value

print(str(upload_result.reference))
>>> 'b0d6b928d0f64fab1a50d37a965515cc6f152d3c27f58fbcefb6b8506f23b076'

data = bee.download_data(upload_result.reference.value)
print(data)
>>> Data(data=b'Bee is Awesome!')

# Data can be converted into json format, hex, bytes or plain-text
print(data.to_json())
>>> '{"data":"Bee is Awesome!"}'

print(data.text())
>>> 'Bee is Awesome!'

print(data.hex())
>>> '42656520697320417765736f6d6521'

🚀 Bee Debug Endpoint

from bee_py.bee_debug import BeeDebug

bee_debug = BeeDebug("https://18.134.10.41:1635")

# Be aware, this creates on-chain transactions that spend Eth and BZZ!
# Get Postage
batch_id = bee_debug.create_postage_batch('2000', 20)
print(batch_id)
>>> "17cbeb913ff852e34ade49c6df75adc7ff6f263b86d59c1cb2c3b0388cfe9cf3"

👩‍💻 Development

This project is developed using pdm. So the quickest way to get started is using pdm. Install pdm using pip, pipx etc & then follow the following steps

git clone https://github.com/alienrobotninja/bee-py
cd bee-py
# To install all the dev & lint dependencies 
pdm install -G:all

That's it, you're environment is ready. Now install docker to run bee-factory. Now to start the bee-factory do bee-factory start --detach 1.15.0-rc2. As of 7th January 2024 1.15.0-rc2 is the latest release for bee-factory which uses a very outdated versions of bee.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. To learn more, see the Contributor Guide.

📄 License

Distributed under the terms of the GPL 3.0 license, Bee Py is free and open source software.

🐞 Issues

There are some know issues like:

• Some tests are perfomed on older versions of bee.
• Some tests are stuck for hours when using the latest Bee API(not bee-py issue).
• Some tests are skipped because of outdated libraries used by various ethersphere projects.

If you encounter any problems, please [file an issue] along with a detailed description.

📚 Documentation

You can find the full documentation here. The API reference documentation can be found here.

👏 Credits

Developed by @Aviksaikat