Data

Say I want to build a network of all the Farcaster users. What would be the fastest way to get the data?

Just created an account here and I know nothing about the protocol. Thinking about this as a fun challenge!  🚀

the easiest way to look at all users is dune, they source data from @neynar  which has apis and a query tool similar to dune which you can download a csv of all users from. 

check out https://chat.openai.com/g/g-lKnQHXJKS-dune-x-farcaster-gpt to generate dune queries about farcaster

best farcaster developers build on neynar.com | /neynar

you can also use farcaster-py on github or the warpcast free apis if you can find them. or ask for a sql dump of the user table from someone running a hub

links is a table which essentially records follow actions you probably want: select * from dune.neynar.dataset_farcaster_profile_with_addresses where fname is not null

not null is due to a previous FID attack without registering username/storage

Tried to get the `links` data (around 1 million rows) from Dune. It runs on the UI but I can't download the CSV or get it via the Python Dune client.

I'd love to avoid Dune and get closer to the data source if there is a quick option there!

Neynar fastest. 
Dune probably cheapest. 
Running a node and the postgres thing might be the hardest, but it’s fun