A lightweight block explorer. Meant to be an improvement over Abe (hence the name). Design goals:
- Straightforward to setup with minimal dependencies
- Reasonable space consumption
- Clean, well written codebase for hackabilitiy.
Lincoln is still very much under development, so keep in mind that things may be a bit bumpy. Several key features are still missing!
- Python 3.2+
- Flask
- SQLAlchemy
- python-bitcoinlib
- Redis
- Gunicorn (although an WSGI server will work)
- Block reorgs aren't handled properly. A complete reindex is required.
- Sync status isn't shown, so the site may look oddly out of date if connection is lost or doing initial sync.
- There are no API endpoints, just a UI
- The address overview page is lacking a lot of information.
# Python 3.4 is highly preferred due to decimal support
mkvirtualenv lincoln --python /usr/bin/python3.4
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .Now copy example.yml to config.yml and enter your RPC information.
# Initialize the database
python manage.py init_db
# To run the webserver
python manage.py runserver
# To sync the blockchain
python manage.py syncTo setup Lincoln on an Ubuntu box, follow these recommendations:
The chain sync chrontab should look something like this:
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/flock -n /tmp/litecoin_scan.lockfile /path/to/my/virtualenv/bin/python /path/to/repo/manage.py sync >> /home/block/sync.log
An upstart config for the webserver would look something like this:
start on (filesystem)
stop on runlevel [016]
respawn
console log
setuid block
setgid block
chdir /home/block/lincoln
exec /home/block/lincoln_venv/bin/gunicorn lincoln.wsgi_entry:app -b 127.0.0.1:11000 --timeout 270