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arfonzo
@arfonzo
[CASTBACK] This week in my spare time I've continued building castback, a /cli command line tool that backs up all of a user's farcaster casts, and enables searches. I built this because I found myself always trying to find *that old cast I made last month*. - Caches all casts from any FID to filesystem: no need to keep pulling data over API. Can easily update your backup with the most recent batch of casts only. - Searches and provides link to cast. - Uses @airstack.eth API, so users don't need a hub, just a free API key. (It took a while since we spoke first about it @betashop.eth but I did finally get around to building with the API, thanks!) I'll open source and release it once it's all done, but it's working well already! (Highly recommend checking airstack if you want to do farcaster dev quickly with minimal fuss! 🙏)
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Stephan
@stephancill
why use airstack vs a hub? anyone can run a hub permissionlessly plus there are dozens of free ones to choose from
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arfonzo
@arfonzo
1. It was easy for me as the dev to get started. 2. I want to make it easy for non-technical users to use (inasmuch as is possible...) But I'd deffo be down with looking at getting it working with other hubs, for sure! If there's appetite for castback, I'll be looking to add quite a few more features, and would be happy to put that on the roadmap. Thanks for the great question! 🙏
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Stephan
@stephancill
does it require the user to enter an airstack api key?
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arfonzo
@arfonzo
Yes it needs them to get an API key from airstack. If in the future any hub is supported that would obviously be nice to do away with. But it seemed really easy for me to grab my airstack API key and AFAIK they committed to free calls for farcaster.
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Stephan
@stephancill
if you're trying to make it as simple as possible for users then a hub also makes a lot of sense imo :)
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