(For Witnesses) Instant price-feed script

As part of being a witness, you're expected to run a price feed, to allow the network to convert SBD to USD (via STEEM).

Unfortunately, most of them are a bit of a pain to install.

Well. Not anymore. I've taken @jesta's fork of @clayop's python price feed, and wrapped it with a shell script that can deal with setting it up, configuring, as well as start/stop/status

It's open source, released under the GNU GPL v3. You can view the code here: https://gist.github.com/Someguy123/100dbc0e40d343886e2aa014317f586f/

It works on both Linux (debian-based, e.g. ubuntu), and OSX (requires homebrew).

Here's how to use it:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Someguy123/100dbc0e40d343886e2aa014317f586f/raw/pricefeed-tool.sh -O price.sh
chmod +x price.sh
./price.sh install
./price.sh start

Need to change the username or key?

./price.sh config

Here's an example, on a complete fresh DigitalOcean 512mb server to show how easy it is:

root@feedtest:~# wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Someguy123/100dbc0e40d343886e2aa014317f586f/raw/pricefeed-tool.sh -O price.sh

2016-09-14 21:06:10 (42.7 MB/s) - ‘price.sh’ saved [4643/4643]

root@feedtest:~# chmod +x price.sh
root@feedtest:~# ./price.sh install
Installing Python3, git, and Python3-PIP...
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Extracting templates from packages: 100%
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Updating PIP to avoid problems...
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Cloning @jesta's Steem Feed...
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Installing dependencies...
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Automatically configure the price feed? (Y/n)
Creating config file...
If you make a mistake, just press CTRL-C to exit without saving.
Your STEEM username  (no @ sign): someguy123
Your active private key (begins with 5): 5.........
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Successfully saved config
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Price feed has been installed. Start with './price.sh restart'

root@feedtest:~# ./price.sh restart
Killing any existing price feed
Loading environment settings
Starting steemfeed in screen 'pricefeed'
Pricefeed started! Check on it with 'screen -x pricefeed'
Problems? Check steemfeed/error.log
root@feedtest:~# ./price.sh status
The price feed is running
root@feedtest:~#

Did you see that? That's right. 3 commands and it's up.

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