# Hive Developer Portal

### RB: Get Account Replies

Fetching the replies written to a particular account.

Full, runnable src of Get Account Replies can be downloaded as part of: tutorials/ruby.

Historically, applications that wanted to retrieve replies written to a particular account would use `get_state`. But this method has been scheduled for deprecation. So we’ll use a more supported approach in this tutorial using `get_account_history`.

### Sections

1. Making the api call - Requesting account history
   1. Example api call - make the call in code
   2. Example api call using script - using our tutorial script
   3. Example Output - output from a successful call
2. Comment Fields - Getting more detail than provided by account history.
3. To Run - Running the example.

### Making the api call

To request the latest replies to a particular author, we can use the `get_account_history` method:

    api = Radiator::Api.new

    api.get_account_history(account_name, -1, 10000) do |history|
      history.each do |index, item|
        type, op = item.op

        next unless type == 'comment'
        next if op.parent_author.empty? # skip posts
        next unless op.parent_author == account_name # skip comments by account

        # .
        # ... your code here
        # .
      end
    end

Notice, the above example request up to 10,000 operations from history, starting from the oldest. From these results, we iterate on each item in history to locate a) type of `comment`, and b) `parent_author` that match the `account_name`.

#### Example api call

If we want to get the replies to user @lordvader …

    api.get_account_history("lordvader") do |content| ...

#### Example api call using script

And to do the same with our tutorial script

    ruby get_account_replies.rb lordvader

#### Example Output

From the example we get the following output from our script:

    .
    .
    .
    Reply by @steemitboard in discussion: "The Empire has sent you a friend request."
    	body_length: 677 (99 words)
    	replied at: 2018-04-28T04:32:42
    	net_votes: 0
    	https://steemit.com/@steemitboard/steemitboard-notify-lordvader-20180428t043241000z
    Reply by @jedimasteryoda in discussion: "The Empire has sent you a friend request."
    	body_length: 65 (11 words)
    	replied at: 2018-06-07T18:47:54
    	net_votes: 0
    	https://steemit.com/@jedimasteryoda/re-lordvader-the-empire-has-sent-you-a-friend-request-20180607t184754944z
    Reply by @koinbot in discussion: "The Empire has sent you a friend request."
    	body_length: 15 (2 words)
    	replied at: 2018-06-23T07:58:51
    	net_votes: 0
    	https://steemit.com/@koinbot/re-lordvader-the-empire-has-sent-you-a-friend-request-20180623t075851464z

### Comment fields

Replies in the results of `get_account_history` will only return the following fields:

- `parent_author`
- `parent_permlink`
- `author`
- `permlink`
- `title`
- `body`
- `json_metadata`

In our example script, we want more detail than this, so for every `comment`, we call `get_content` to retrieve more detail. For a full explanation of the results provided by `get_content`, please refer to the tutorial: Get Post Details

### To Run

First, set up your workstation using the steps provided in Getting Started. Then you can create and execute the script (or clone from this repository):

- `<account-name>`

    git clone git@github.com:steemit/devportal-tutorials-rb.git
    cd devportal-tutorials-rb/tutorials/08_get_account_replies
    bundle install
    ruby get_account_replies.rb <account-name>