Struggles with HIVE API

A simple script, that first gets all the accounts a given account (example: @felixxx) is following and then looks through those account's histories for vote-operations and prints them, 7 days back.

from beem.account import Account
import datetime


author_following = {}

account = 'felixxx'

author_following[account] = []    

a = Account(account)                        

for following in a.get_following():    
    author_following[account].append(following)

time2 = datetime.datetime.now().timestamp()

def get_followers_votes(author_following, author):    
    for follower in author_following[author]:
        time1 = datetime.datetime.now().timestamp()
        f = Account(follower)
        for vote in f.history_reverse(stop = (datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days = 7)), only_ops = 'vote'):
            print(vote)
        print(follower)    
        print(datetime.datetime.now().timestamp() - time1)

get_followers_votes(author_following, account)

print(datetime.datetime.now().timestamp() - time2)

Guess how long that takes ?

... I am still waiting.
... and I actually wanted to compile a whole dictionary, for more than 1 account ...

I hope Hive 0.23.0 speeds this up, but I am afraid, I will have to build my own DB and feed it blockwise, or find a completely different method :/

However, i will test these numbers again after the hardfork and post about the changes.