Click the Search icon to open and close the search panel. Here you can search Lost Poets by trait, trait rarities, trait ranges, class or named. Searches display Lost Poets in ascending order based on Poet Number. The count of the resulting Lost Poets for each search is displayed in the upper left corner of the page. Combine multiple search selections to narrow the results even further.
Choose the trait you want to search from the dropdown menu: Poet Name, Origin, Latent, Breed, Age, Genre, Ego, Owner and Wallet. Enter the trait information and hit Return or click the Search Button. Note: Upper or lower case may be used. Examples:
Select the checkbox for any of the four traits (Breed, Age, Genre, and Ego) and click the Search Button. The Lost Poets are displayed starting with the rarest Lost Poets for the selected trait. Example of searching by Breed rarities:
Lost Poets displayed: One Lost Poet with Breed iazee, one Lost Poet with Breed zeeia, two Lost Poets with Breed naia, etc. The Breed count (or rarity) for each Breed name is displayed at the bottom left of each image card.
Select the checkbox, enter the range in the minimium and maximum input fields and click the Search Button. The input fields default with placeholders of minimum and maximum values. If nothing is entered, the search will be performed on the default placeholder value. Important: You must select the checkbox before you click the Search Button to activate the range search.
Select one or more of the three checkboxes (Origin, Poet, and Ghost), then click the Search Button.
Select either Named or No Name, then click the Search Button. Named Lost Poets include all Origins and Lost Poets that have been named. No Name Lost Poets are all the Lost Poets that have not been named. Note: Lost Poets with no name can have words!
Search Button: Performs the search.
Clear Button: Clears the search and displays Lost Poets from a random place in the database.
Displays a list of the top 200+ collectors. This list may extend beyound 200 in order to include all the collectors for the Poet Count at the 200th collector. For instance, if the Poet Count of the 200th ranked collector is 20, then all collectors who own 20 Poets will be included extending the collector count beyound 200. For each collector:
The Poet Count, Word Count and Lexicon are sortable in descending order by clicking the ↓ in the header.
Every row in the Top Collectors list is selectable and will initiate a search of that collector's Lost Poets. In addition to the Search By Traits in the Sidebar Panel, this provides a another way to search by collectors. The collector's Lost Poets can be further refined by rarities, word counts, etc.
The Information icon opens and closes a dropdown of different information:
In 2022 I decided to learn Python. While exploring, I stumbled across a blog that used OpenSea’s API to pull data from a major NFT collection. I thought, "Why not do the same for Lost Poets?" So, I dove in. I gathered all the OpenSea Lost Poets data and built a spreadsheet. Initially, my grand scheme was to leverage this data to acquire the Poets with the rarest traits. But ultimately, I shared the spreadsheet with Pak's Discord group because I wanted to help others who shared my passion for finding Poets with rare traits.
During Lost Poets' first year, collectors fed Pages to their Poets to name them and to write their poems. One interesting feature was that when a collector named their Origin, it automatically updated the Origin trait for every Poet in that family. But there was a catch: OpenSea couldn’t update traits in real time. To see the new names, you had to manually refresh each Poet! Frustrated with this, I discovered an unpublished OpenSea API and used it to periodically refresh the entire collection of 28,170 Lost Poets. Hah!
Then, on November 1, 2022, Pak locked the ability to feed, name and write poems. Lost Poets Gen0 was frozen. I used the unpublished OpenSea Refresh API one last time to capture a final snapshot of every Gen0 Poet. Little did I know this would be the last hurrah. Soon after, the Gen0 images, traits, and poems vanished from Opensea. And to my surprise, my Python-generated Lost Poets spreadsheet became the sole surviving record of Gen0 Lost Poets.
The Gen1 data that emerged on OpenSea was different: new Gen1 images replaced the Gen0 images, most traits disappeared, and a few new ones appeared. Wanting to add this new Gen1 data in my spreadsheet, I used Manifold's API to download the Gen1 metadata and merged it into the spreadsheet. On November 22, 2022, the Lost Poets master spreadsheet was officially frozen.
With this master source of Lost Poets data in hand, I knew it needed to be visualized. I studied website frameworks and was amazed by how far UX/UI design had evolved over the last decade. I decided on a framework and database. Then in June 2024, with the help of ChatGPT, FindLostPoets was born.
So here we are, with a visual collection of this incredible data to explore. Enjoy the journey of finding Lost Poets!
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