Bot Build #2 - Auto Follow Bot

What Will I Learn?

• Build Auto Follow Bot that follows by trending tag every 5 minutes

Requirements

• Node.JS, Here
• Steem Package (Install: npm install steem --save)

Difficulty

• Basic

Tutorial Contents

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make auto follow bot that follows every 5 minutes users by trending tag.

Curriculum

• SteemJS #1
• NodeJS #1

The Tutorial

first, we want a function to make the follow,
create a function called AutoFollow, we need the function to set a timer for every 5 minutes.

function AutoFollow(name, tag, wif, limit){

}

name - the follower username, the username which sends the follow.

tag - the tag to get the posts from.

wif - the private posting wif key to send the follow.

limit - the limit number of the posts.

now let's get the posts and make a loop

  steem.api.getDiscussionsByTrending({tag: tag, limit: limit}, function(err, result){
  if(!!err)
  throw err;
  result.forEach(function(row){

  });

getDiscussionsByTrending - this function will give the recent trending posts.

tag - the tag we get the posts from.

limit - the limit of the posts we get.

result.forEach - making a loop for the posts.

now we need some variables and a json variable

  var follower = name;
  var following = row.author;
  var json = JSON.stringify(
  ['follow', {
  follower: follower,
  following: following,
  what: ['blog']
  }]);

follower - the follower username, the user who sends the follow.

following - the user you going to follow.

json - json variable for the follow function.

if we done all correctly just broadcast the follow with customJson function

  steem.broadcast.customJson(wif, [], [follower], 'follow', json, function(err, result) {
  console.log(err, result);
  });

wif - the wif private posting key.

follower - the follower name (you).

follow - the role of the customJson function.

json - the json variable that contains the follower name, following name and the type of blog.

now we want to send the function every 5 minutes (or any time else)

setTimeout(function(){AutoFollow("lonelywolf", "dtube", "XXXX", 1)}, 5*60*1000);

lonelywolf - the username.

dtube - the tag.

XXX - wif key (private posting key).

1 - the limit of posts.

5*60*1000 - 5, minutes. 60, seconds. 1000, milliseconds.

the full function code

function AutoFollow(name, tag, wif, limit){
  steem.api.getDiscussionsByTrending({tag: tag, limit: limit}, function(err, result){
  if(!!err)
  throw err;
  result.forEach(function(row){
  var follower = name;
  var following = row.author;
  var json = JSON.stringify(
  ['follow', {
  follower: follower,
  following: following,
  what: ['blog']
  }]);
  steem.broadcast.customJson(wif, [], [follower], 'follow', json, function(err, result) {
  console.log(err, result);
  });
  });
  setTimeout(function(){AutoFollow("lonelywolf", "dtube", "XXX", 1)}, 5*60*1000);
  });
}

if we done all correctly we can send the function when the script starts

AutoFollow("lonelywolf", "dtube", "XXX", 1);

and we will see that result

(the script run for 15 minutes now, so I followed 3 users already)

text result

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steemd results

(tested few times so there is more then 3 follows)

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