Simple How to: Setup a Bot to Upvote Your Supporters Posts.

I created a tutorial the other day on how to bot upvote the same posts as top steemit curators. Lets just say I received a lot of "feedback" on the post and the subject. Decided to do a second more loving community serving tutorial on how to bot upvote your top supporters.

So who are my top upvoters you ask?

Put your username in the site below created by Hive account@roelandp and scroll to the bottom.

http://steemvp.com/

I sorted by votes but you can also go by SBD payout.

Now that you have your list we can start creating our bot!

Step 1. Setup an account with http://heroku.com

This will require adding a credit card (I used my bitpay) to authorize your account, the card will not be charged at any point. Only authorized accounts can run the Heroku Scheduler, this will be needed later to run the bot every 10 minutes.

Step 2. Click this link to deploy the bot.

Step 3. Initial Configuration

• STEEM_USER (you user name)
• POSTING_KEY_PRV (your posting private key, located in wallet permissions at the top. Click show private key. This key only allows posting and no access to funds, super safe.)
• BOT_API_KEY (this is your password to log into your bot, it can be whatever)
• EMAIL_ADDRESS_TO (ignore)
• EMAIL_ADDRESS_SENDER (ignore)
• SENDGRID_API_KEY (ignore)
• COOKIE_SECRET (ignore)

Step 4. Click Deploy Be patient here, can take a few minutes to get going.

Step 5. Click View App and login with your password.

Step 6. Navigate to Edit Algorithm.

Step 7. Add the Algo

Key: post_up_voted_any_whitelisted

Weight: 100

Step 8. Add Steemit authors to whitelist with just a space in between them.

Step 9. Navigate to https://dashboard.heroku.com/

Step 10. Select your bot

Step 11. Navigate to the resources tab and select Heroku Scheduler

Step 12. Add node bot.js as the job and set it to run every 10 minutes, in theory you could add a second one five minutes later to have the bot run every five minutes.

Step 13. Wait, may take a while for your authors to post and get upvoted but you should start seeing votes come in on http://steemd.com/@username that you did not make. There is also a view log on the bot page if you want to check that.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, this feature will eventually be built into this site or a spin off of some kind. This is just getting it early, enjoy! If you run into any snags reach out to me or Hive account@personz in http://steemit.chat