Add a script to generate previous epochs

[hsjoberg]

Some external tools are basing their data on the /blocks API call.
The application right now only saves the current difficulty period so we might want to provide a way to generate previous ones (perhaps even use it in this project (/?epoch=X)).

[AndrewLaganaro]

I was just thinking about that, I need to see the last epoch to get its data but there's no option to that on the website ): Support this!

anyway if anyone is interested, I found on twitter the last epoch, but sadly there's no data available (like mining poll, time, etc) as it is just an image ): But anyway might be useful though:
(luckily there's all the blocks there, 56 x 36 = 2016, did the count myself)

https://twitter.com/hampus_s/status/1392766310648590337?s=20

[AndrewLaganaro]

Any news on that one?

[hsjoberg]

@AndrewLaganaro Yes! I've implemented a script to generate periods.

The three periods of the Taproot Speedy Trial softfork are available here:

https://taproot.watch/blocks/338
https://taproot.watch/blocks/339
https://taproot.watch/blocks/340

I'll have the actual webpages restored eventually, but at least the data is available now.

[AndrewLaganaro]

ohhh huge thanks man! I really appreciate that as I'm going to use that data on a data analysis project of mine!

[hsjoberg]

@AndrewLaganaro Sounds great! 🚀

Closing this issue.
Implemented in b77db80, 95ef039 and d5666a2.

[hsjoberg]

@AndrewLaganaro FYI I moved the API call from /blocks/[period] to /period/[period]. So the URLs are:

https://taproot.watch/period/338
https://taproot.watch/period/339
https://taproot.watch/period/340