Putting curie on Auto-Pilot

I was looking over the guidelines for suggesting posts to curie in the chat room yesterday and I thought if I could automate a part of the curation process.

It didn't take a lot of mental regurgitation over the idea. I knew I had to try and see what I can do. @furion's steemtools library would come in handy once again. So, thank you for that!

Here's the rationale behind what I did:

• parse the blockchain for the timeframe between the last 6 and the last 20 hours
• look for comment operations (blogposts and comments)
• restrict for blogposts

(1). The link would be retrieved if all the following conditions are met:

• author has reputation < 60
• author has < 100 followers
• author has < 3000 steem power

(2). Then I would look into these authors' blogs for their last 4 blogposts (assuming that 4 is a decent number of higher quality posts one can have in the course of the last two days).

(3). If a post would have amounted for < 10 SBD and is in the desired timeframe (between last 6 and 20 hours), give me the link.

(4). The links would appear on screen as they are retrieved, but they would also be saved to file (txt).

The output on the screen contains duplicate links (some links appearing more than once) but the final text file is clean, containing only unique links that meet all the criteria specified.

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The Code

It takes up to an hour to run the code to completion on a public node, and much less in your local node.

To run it, you need Python (I use 3.4) and steemtools. Make sure to have successfully installed all the dependencies. A guide to steemtools is provided by @furion in his release post.

And here's my code:

from steemtools.blockchain import Blockchain
from steemtools.base import Account, Post

b = Blockchain()
ac = Account

curr_block = b.get_current_block()
st_block = curr_block - 24000

postlist1 = []
postlist2 = []

# 'replaying' the blockchain, starting 20 hours ago and ending ~6 hours ago
# filtering by comments (blogposts and comments)

for event in b.replay(start_block=st_block, end_block=curr_block - 7200, filter_by=['comment']):

    post = event['op']['permlink']
    author = event['op']['author']
    reputation = ac(author).reputation()
    steem = ac(author).get_sp()
    followers = ac(author).get_followers()

    if post[:3] != 're-' and reputation < 60 and steem < 3000 and len(followers) < 100:

# looking into their blogs and retrieving the last 4 blogposts
# if the post has a payout of 10 SBD or less and is posted in the desired timeframe
# give me the link

        blog = ac(author).get_blog()
        for post in blog[:4]:
            payout = Post.payout(post)
            timeEl = Post.time_elapsed(post)/60
            if payout < 10 and timeEl > 360 and timeEl < 1200:

                try:
                    print(Post.get_url(post))
                    postlist1.append(Post.get_url(post))

                except:
                    continue

# removing duplicates

for item in postlist1:
    if item not in postlist2:
        postlist2.append(item)

# writing the final results cleanly to file

with open('curie.txt', 'wt') as f:
    for line in postlist2:
        f.write(line+'\n')

f.close()

You can get this code from my github as well. Use it at your discretion. If you need help with modifying or adapting it, let me know through a message here or on the chat.

I ran the program earlier today and I got ~650 unique links in the output file. Given that these links meet the criteria (<60 rep, <3000 sp, <100 followers, <10 SBD, 6-20 hours timeframe), I can only imagine how many good posts may be left behind.

Automation is most definitely needed in the curation process. I'm going to end by pasting the last ~50 links from my output file of earlier today. Some of these links may still meet the criteria for curie:

https://steemit.com/proposal/@cryptofunk/my-marriage-proposal-at-the-highest-point-in-hong-kong-victoria-peak
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemrocket/13-ways-to-promote-your-next-steemit-post-infographic
https://steemit.com/mars/@fathermayhem/is-mars-really-a-red-planet
https://steemit.com/easy/@cashni89/easy-cash-machines-review
https://steemit.com/steemit/@digital-wisdom/posting-our-first-bounty
https://steemit.com/graffiti/@jahvascrypt/year-round-metal-enjoyment-nor-eastour-2016
https://steemit.com/steemit/@stepka/may-it-be-in-steemit-s-plans-to-build-special-rooms-for-every-native-language-in-the-future-a-little-question-suggestion
https://steemit.com/engineering/@engineercampus/product-lists-and-the-avtomat-kalashnikova
https://steemit.com/story/@franks/a-short-story-brighton-city-of-gold-by-frank-sonderborg-republic-of-b-chapter-3
https://steemit.com/mourning/@roguesoldier407/real-talk-papi-s-sonnet
https://steemit.com/poetry/@roguesoldier407/real-talk-the-weird-lonely-drunk-at-the-pub-with-the-notepad
https://steemit.com/blog/@uceph/lucid-dreaming-journal-day-5-chaos
https://steemit.com/poetry/@timbot606/the-man-in-the-moon-an-original-poem
https://steemit.com/art/@gavicrane/detailed-watercolor-guide
https://steemit.com/howto/@ejaredallen/how-to-write-a-blogpost-2016926t182111633z
https://steemit.com/spanish/@bluechoochoo/como-y-donde-ver-el-debate-presidencial-en-linea
https://steemit.com/cord-cutting/@bluechoochoo/how-to-watch-the-us-presidential-debate-livestreams-online-without-cable-authentication
https://steemit.com/life/@jg02/6-steps-to-conquer-fear
https://steemit.com/life/@jonjon1/unraveling-my-truth
https://steemit.com/uni/@ellehendery/induction
https://steemit.com/outcast/@dogtanian/makes-no-difference
https://steemit.com/money/@scan0017/100-trillion-reasons
https://steemit.com/news/@lyndsaybowes/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine
https://steemit.com/food/@chef.cook/chocolate-biscuits
https://steemit.com/news/@steemtalk/steem-talk-your-daily-best-of-steemit-digital-newspaper-evening-edition-20
https://steemit.com/history/@matthew.raymer/strangers-in-a-strange-land
https://steemit.com/business/@matthew.raymer/deadlines-and-blind-dates
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@spanzy/bitcoin-mining-the-world-s-first-decentralized-currency
https://steemit.com/politics/@the.dudermensch/the-top-5-factors-that-changed-my-political-awareness-forever
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@ttm/ubs-guides-4-banks-on-blockchain-settlement-system
https://steemit.com/photography/@unhorsepower777/photography-people-in-black-and-white-part-2-original-photography-by-unhorsepower777
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@jennane/why-i-m-grateful-to-steemit-useful-links
https://steemit.com/night/@tskeene/malt-liquor-stories-night-train
https://steemit.com/anarchism/@dsayers/the-case-against-political-voting
https://steemit.com/writing/@thefinalgirl/original-work-you-ll-always-find-your-way-back-home-chapter-3-part-1
https://steemit.com/relationship/@decimus/cut-the-arrogance-replace-with-confidence
https://steemit.com/facebook/@sift666/did-facebook-kill-off-email
https://steemit.com/fallout4/@scottii/nuka-world-mad-mulligan-s-mine
https://steemit.com/heroesofthestorm/@scottii/how-to-with-the-lost-vikings-heroes-of-the-storm
https://steemit.com/neuquen/@matiasm/neuquen-argentina-un-dia-de-primavera
https://steemit.com/movies/@movietrailers/mean-dreams-official-trailer-1-2016-bill-paxton-movie
https://steemit.com/movies/@movietrailers/moana-official-international-trailer-1-2016-dwayne-johnson-movie
https://steemit.com/movies/@movietrailers/the-beat-beneath-my-feet-official-trailer-1-2016-luke-perry-movie
https://steemit.com/movies/@movietrailers/king-cobra-official-trailer-1-2016-james-franco-movie
https://steemit.com/mtg/@collin-stevens/magic-the-gathering-top-kaladesh-cards-minus-gearhulks-planeswalkers-and-the-rare-land-cycle-let-me-know-if-i-missed-any
https://steemit.com/debates/@atosales/my-coverage-of-the-reality-show-known-as-the-debates
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jeff-kubitz/song-of-angels-chapter-4
https://steemit.com/steemit/@reaction/mrw-i-see-that-new-whales-have-arrived-on-steemit
https://steemit.com/photography/@kszchopstix/castle-in-the-sky-original-photograph
https://steemit.com/introduction/@budilontong/introduction-to-bitcoin
https://steemit.com/photography/@cognoscere/1906-cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac

If you have suggestions for other useful scripts, please let me know!

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