Motivation
I have been experimenting steem-python and steem blockchain to see
what's going on under the hood. We do have a lot of upvote bots in the scene,
yet I had no idea how they work in detail.
With the help of awesome steem-python package, I have managed to create
a simple upvote bot.
This bot is not the best bot available and it won't be. it's pretty miserable at the moment as you can see from its eyes in the logo. But it can be a good starting point for potential steem blockchain developers.
Turbot does the following though:
- Listen the blockchain for new blocks
- Process these blocks and transactions.
- If a transaction directed to the bot account, turbot spots it and upvotes
the post in the memo. - Turbot upvotes the related content with a random vote weight between 1-100.
- You can safely start/stop the bot. It stores the state and do not
make duplicate processing on already processed blocks.
Refunds
Turbot refunds SBD if:
- the post is archived
- the post is already upvoted
- transaction doesn't cover the minimum SBD
- the post URL is invalid
Installation and Running
$ virtualenv -p python3 turbot
$ source turbot/bin/activate
$ git clone https://github.com/emre/turbot.git
$ cd turbot/turbot
$ vim settings.py # edit accordingly
$ PRIVATE_POSTING_KEY=[BOT_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY] ACTIVE_KEY=[BOT_ACCOUNT_ACTIVE_KEY] python turbot/turbot.py
Configuration Parameters
MINIMUM_SBD_FOR_UPVOTE = float(0.002)
UPVOTE_WEIGHTS = (+1, +100)
BOT_ACCOUNT = 'turbot'
his wallet is very tiny but he will make sure you will get the upvote. :)
Forgot to mention,
Warning: This software is not production ready and may contain bugs. It's an experimental project for me to learn the steem block chain. You should make required checks and enhancements if you want to use it in production.