luckyluke.rb - Voting Bot Update

in #ruby7 years ago

Lucky Luke is a reimplementation of Dr. Phil, but instead of voting for new articles, it votes for posts mentioned in the memo field of a transfer operation. By default, it votes for any transfer sent to @booster but you can configure any bot that receives pay-for-vote transfers (or even @null). You can also set a minimum transfer amount to ignore small amounts.

New Features

  • vote_weight can now be either a static percentage (like 100.00 %) or dynamic. When using dynamic, the vote is compared to account history. If the transfer is equal to or greater than the maximum transfer in history, the vote will be 100%. Otherwise, the transfer amount is divided by the maximum. History is set by history_limit.
  • reserve_voting_power will allow the bot to exceed min_voting_power by the amount specified when a transfer is equal to or greater than the maximum transfer in history.
  • Added luckyluke-disabled-voters.txt to keep track of accounts that can no longer vote due to things like keys changing. This file may be appended to live in order to disable/enable voting on certain accounts without restarting the bot.

Features

  • YAML config.
    • voting_rules
      • min_transfer allows you to specify the minimum amount in the transfer to vote on.
      • min_wait and max_wait (in minutes) so that you can fine-tune voting delay.
      • enable_comments option to vote for post replies (default false).
      • max_rep option, useful for limiting votes to newer authors (default 99.9).
      • min_rep can accept either a static reputation or a dynamic property.
        • Existing static reputation still supported, e.g.: 25.0
        • Dynamic reputation, e.g.: dynamic:100. This will occasionally query the top 100 trending posts and use the minimum author reputation.
      • min_voting_power to create a floor with will allow the voter to recharge over time without having to stop the script.
      • vote_signals account list.
        • Optionally allows multiple bot instances to cooperate by avoiding vote swarms.
        • If enabled, this feature allows cooperation without sharing keys.
      • only_tags (optional) which only votes on posts that include these tags.
      • only_above_average_transfers allows voters to only vote if the transfer is above average for that bot.
      • history_limit used when only_above_average_transfers is true or vote_weight is dynamic to set how far back to calculate.
      • max_transfer allows you to specify the maximum amount in the transfer to vote on, which is useful when running multiple instances with voting tiers.
      • max_age allows you to only upvote newer content, for example, avoiding posts that are about to become locked.
      • Optionally configure voters as a separate filename. E.g:
        • voters: voters.txt
          • The format for the file is just: account wif (no leading dash, separated by space)
        • Or continue to use the previous format.
      • Also optional support for separate files in each (format one per line or separated by space or both):
        • skip_accounts
        • skip_tags
        • flag_signals
        • vote_signals
  • bots is a list of bots to watch transfer operations for.
  • Skip posts with declined payout.
  • Skip posts that already have votes from external scripts and posts that were edited.
  • Argument called replay: allows a replay of n blocks allowing you to catch up to the present.
    • E.g.: ruby luckyluke.rb replay:90 will replay the last 90 blocks (about 4.5 minutes).
  • Thread management
    • Counter displayed so you know what kind of impact ^C will have.
    • This also keeps the number of threads down when authors edit before Lucky Luke votes.
  • Streaming on Last Irreversible Block Number, just to be fancy.
  • Checking for new HF18 cashout_time value (if present).
    • This will skip voting when authors edit their old archived posts.

Overview

The goal is to vote before the pay-for-vote bot. To achieve this, Lucky Luke watches for transfer operations.

You might configure the bot to only watch for transfers over 10.000 SBD, for example. The bot will also use a few other rules like to avoid voting for declined payouts and automatically suspend voting if it needs to recharge.


Install

To use this Radiator bot:

Linux
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ruby-full git openssl libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ gem install bundler
macOS
$ gem install bundler

You can try the system version of ruby, but if you have issues with that, use this how-to, and come back to this installation at Step 4:

I've tested it on various versions of ruby. The oldest one I got it to work was:

ruby 2.0.0p645 (2015-04-13 revision 50299) [x86_64-darwin14.4.0]

Setup

First, clone this gist and install the dependencies:

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/07cfb044f625beb22724371b85cea0e4.git luckyluke
$ cd luckyluke
$ bundle install

Then run it:

$ ruby luckyluke.rb

Lucky Luke will now do it's thing. Check here to see an updated version of this bot:

https://gist.github.com/inertia186/07cfb044f625beb22724371b85cea0e4


Upgrade

Typically, you can upgrade to the latest version by this command, from the original directory you cloned into:

$ git pull

Usually, this works fine as long as you haven't modified anything. If you get an error, try this:

$ git stash --all
$ git pull --rebase
$ git stash pop

If you're still having problems, I suggest starting a new clone.


Troubleshooting

Problem: What does this error mean?
luckyluke.yml:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting end-of-input
Solution: You ran ruby luckyluke.yml but you should run ruby luckyluke.rb.

Problem: Everything looks ok, but every time Lucky Luke tries to vote, I get this error:
Unable to vote with <account>.  Invalid version
Solution: You're trying to vote with an invalid key.

Make sure the .yml file voter items have the account name, followed by a space, followed by the account's WIF posting key. Also make sure you have removed the example accounts (social and bad.account are just for testing).

Problem: The node I'm using is down.

Is there a list of nodes?

Solution: Yes, see:

https://steem-third-party.github.io/steem-servers/




See my previous Ruby How To posts in: /f/ruby

Get in touch!

If you're using Lucky Luke, I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line and tell me what you think! I'm @inertia on STEEM and SteemSpeak.

License

I don't believe in intellectual "property". If you do, consider Lucky Luke as licensed under a Creative Commons CC0 License.

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Prof is @inertia working codes

@moorkedi sen ne arıyorsun burada ?

You are awesome dude, are you a witness too?

No but he SHOULD be a witness shpuldnt he? he deserves the extra Steem so he can fuind anotehr helper to help him make even MORE stuff!

Thanks I love bots :D

Great work! I see new features I can't wait to deploy!

@inertia Hey man nice work, I've used your tutorials before they are helpful, and you explain everything very clearly so its easy to understand. Thanks for the tutorial.

In many voting projects, developers try to distinguish the bots from legal users. They may use the strategy talked about below, and the votebots try to bypass their barriers or detecting methods to successfully vote at the website. For example, some websites restrict the number of votes one IP address can make in a time period. Votebots can bypass this rule by proxy its IP address frequently to cheat the website. Another frequently used strategy is to analyze the account created by a votebot to tell any difference from the normal accounts created by human beings, or to analyze the action history of accounts in the system to find out potential votebots creating ones. Votebots, on the other hand, try to simulate human action such as logging in and out as well as sharing some articles in some social network service before voting.

Wonderful product. Am interested. But I use a windows 10 pc,and I only saw product for Linux and macos. Do you have provisions for windows? Thanks

Here is a tutorial (not mine) for how to run a virtual version of Linux in Windows:
https://steemit.com/tutorial/@orionsbelt/tutorial-how-to-run-ubuntu-linux-on-windows-machine-using-vmplayer

I run my luckyluke in a virtual, and it works great!

I don't recommend Windows, but it might work. I document how to get drphil to run on Windows (drphil.rb - Voting Bot - Windows Installation). Not sure if it's that helpful, but if you can follow those steps, you can do ruby development on Windows. The commands below are for bash prompts, but they are usually the same in the Microsoft command line. Alternative, you could use @bitcoinparadise's guide, How to install Ubuntu on Windows 10, then use the Linux install steps as @josephsavage mentions.

You wait @inerta more red flag (downvoite) come to here.....