Scribe

Scribe is a python library for building services that use the processed data from the LBRY blockchain in an ongoing manner. Scribe contains a set of three core executable services that are used together:

• scribe (scribe.blockchain.service) - maintains a rocksdb database containing the LBRY blockchain.
• scribe-hub (scribe.hub.service) - an electrum server for thin-wallet clients (such as lbry-sdk), provides an api for clients to use thin simple-payment-verification (spv) wallets and to resolve and search claims published to the LBRY blockchain.
• scribe-elastic-sync (scribe.elasticsearch.service) - a utility to maintain an elasticsearch database of metadata for claims in the LBRY blockchain

Features and overview of scribe as a python library:

• Uses Python 3.7-3.9 (3.10 probably works but hasn't yet been tested)
• An interface developers may implement in order to build their own applications able to receive up-to-date blockchain data in an ongoing manner (scribe.service.BlockchainReaderService)
• Protobuf schema for encoding and decoding metadata stored on the blockchain (scribe.schema)
• Rocksdb based database containing the blockchain data (scribe.db)
• A community driven performant trending algorithm for searching claims (code)

Installation

Scribe may be run from source, a binary, or a docker image. Our releases page contains pre-built binaries of the latest release, pre-releases, and past releases for macOS and Debian-based Linux. Prebuilt docker images are also available.

Prebuilt docker image

docker pull lbry/scribe:latest-release

Build your own docker image

git clone https://github.com/lbryio/scribe.git
cd scribe
docker build -f ./docker/Dockerfile.scribe -t lbry/scribe:development .

Install from source

Scribe has been tested with python 3.7-3.9. Higher versions probably work but have not yet been tested.

1. clone the scribe scribe

git clone https://github.com/lbryio/scribe.git
cd scribe

2. make a virtual env

python3.9 -m venv scribe-venv

3. from the virtual env, install scribe

source scribe-venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Usage

Scribe needs either the lbrycrd or lbcd blockchain daemon to be running.

As of block 1124663 (3/10/22) the size of the rocksdb database is 87GB and the size of the elasticsearch volume is 49GB.

docker-compose

From source

To start scribe, run the following (providing your own args)

scribe --db_dir /your/db/path --daemon_url rpcuser:rpcpass@localhost:9245

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome, encouraged, and compensated. For more details, please check this link.

License

This project is MIT licensed. For the full license, see LICENSE.

Security

We take security seriously. Please contact security@lbry.com regarding any security issues. Our PGP key is here if you need it.

Contact

The primary contact for this project is @jackrobison.