Curobot v1.3 - Huge Updates - Your personal steemvoter

I have been trying to move away from 3rd party steem applications and the only one left was Steemvoter. That's why I have vitalized the curobot - your personal curation bot on steem blockchain.

It has Steemvoter's capabilities but also has additional features like blacklisted tags. (Example: Don't vote posts tagged with X)

^{Stdout log of Curobot}

Installation

(sudo) pip install curobot

You're all set. (You need python 3.6+)

Running

$ POSTING_KEY=private_wif curobot config_file.json

Configuration Details

{
  "rules": [
    {"author": "foo", "weight": 50.0, "vote_delay": 30},
    {"author": "bar", "weight": 50.0, "vote_delay": 30},
  ],
  "account": "emrebeyler",
"minimum_vp": 80,
  "nodes": ["https://api.steemit.com"]
}

---

rules

account

Voter account name

nodes

RPC nodes to connect. Default is api.steemit.com

minimum_vp

Bot should sleep at some point to prevent draining the VP. I use 80.

what's new?

• Removed the MySQL dependency. Now, "already upvoted" check will be done before upvoting by looking at post.active_votes

• Added support for blacklisted tags. If your favorite author spams the feeds with a specific tag, you may skip voting on that tag.

• Private posting wif are now transferred to the script with the environment variables. More secure way to pass that information.

• Added a minimum VPcheck posts. If somehow the transaction listener lags, curobot now skips the old posts.

• Added a minimum VPcheck before voting to prevent draining the account's voting power.

• Implemented a simple mutex for efficient voting between multiple threads to get around with the "3 seconds 1 vote transaction" rule.

• Better exception handling and retry mechanism on upvote transaction.

Related commits

• 1ba54212

• d5c9a6f8

• 983d18aa

• 37050e59

Technology Stack

Python3.6 and steem-python-dshot library.

Roadmap

I want to add more complicated features for rules.

• Follow Comments
• Formulas for the weight
• Different conditions to vote.

open to more ideas.

How to contribute?

Use github issues to create pull requests. If you have any feature ideas or bugs to report, of course use also Utopian :)

---

I have frozen my Steemvoter account started using Curobot with these updates. So far it works well. Feel free to use it and give feedback about it.

---

Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors

---