The Hive blockchain is full of material on how to use scripts to talk to the public-RPC nodes and front-ends use this data to show you much of what you see. Unfortunately, there is a lot of outdated material as well. You're going to find you will never get link errors while using Python. 😂 APIs have changed somewhat and they are not available everywhere. The good news is, most Hive APIs don't try to invent new APIs in their wrapper, they are either super thin or they duplicate the raw JSON API with a change to camel case. Ecency is open source you can learn about the APIs just by reading the source code. Look in the "store" subdirectory. 👀