Utopian.info uses Python, and this feature should be implemented using Python, so the only prerequisite for this task is knowledge of the Python programming language.
Details about the task
I want to add the comment a moderator posts after reviewing a contribution (see the above image) to the database of Utopian.info (the utopian.info domain is currently down, but you can access it via https://www.utopian.rocks/ or run it offline (instructions are in the README)). The way it works: I have a cron that executes update_database.py every 30 minutes, which uses utopian_client.py to update the database's posts. Currently a post in the database looks like this for example
{
"_id": "5a9595fc655e7642505a7d73",
"moderator": {
"flagged": false,
"pending": false,
"reviewed": true,
"time": "2018-02-27 17:45:48.692000",
"account": "ulkembetil"
},
"author": "omersurer",
"permlink": "dollar-street-translation-contribution-en-to-nl-10",
"title": "Dollar Street - Translation Contribution - EN to NL #10",
"repository": {
"owner": {
"login": "Gapminder"
},
"fork": false,
"html_url": "https:\/\/github.com\/Gapminder\/dollar-street-pages",
"full_name": "Gapminder\/dollar-street-pages",
"name": "dollar-street-pages",
"id": 51510431
},
"last_update": "2018-02-27 17:45:48",
"created": "2018-02-27 17:31:36",
"active": "2018-02-28 12:51:21",
"category": "translations",
"modified": false,
"status": "any",
"updated": "2018-03-21 22:27:11.136000",
"score": 0,
"questions": [
]
}
and I would like the key comment to be added, where the value of it is the text of the comment made by the moderator who reviewed it. I have tried implementing this myself using steem-python (see the code below)
author = new_post["author"]
permlink = new_post["permlink"]
new_post["comment"] = "N/A"
steemit_post = Post(f"@{author}/{permlink}")
for post in Post.get_all_replies(steemit_post):
if (post["author"] == moderator["account"] and
"[[utopian-moderator]]" in post["body"]):
new_post["comment"] = post["body"]
return new_post
which can be found (commented out) in utopian_client.py within the create_post() function (see here). However, this is too slow to be feasible (how I've implemented it at least), so it must either be done using the above code in combination with multiprocessing (tried adding that, but still seems too slow), or any other way you see fit (web crawling for example) - the only requirement I have is that it must work on a droplet that only has 1GB of RAM and that the time it takes to update the database (so all posts that were submitted in the last 7 days) does not take more than 5 minutes. Obviously just checking if the string "[[utopian-moderator]]" is in the comment is not the best way to find a moderator's comment, so this could be improved as well, because if a comment exists I want it to be added to the database with 100% accuracy.
Components
The only file that really needs to be changed is utopian_client.py. As I mentioned above, I've already tried adding multiprocessing, so you can start with that.
Deadline
The scope of this feature isn't that big (it's hard for me to determine how much work this will be, as I've spent the last few days working on it with no luck), so I will set 23:59 on 5 April 2018 (two weeks from now) as the deadline, which should be more than enough time.
Communication
The best way to contact me with questions regarding this task request is on Discord at Amos#4622.
Any help with this would be appreciated greatly, as I think it would be really nice to add this to each moderator's page that is already available on Utopian.info (e.g. mine).
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