Simple How to: Setup a Bot to Upvote Your Supporters Posts.
I created a tutorial the other day on how to bot upvote the same posts as top steemit curators. Lets just say I received a lot of "feedback" on the post and the subject. Decided to do a second more loving community serving tutorial on how to bot upvote your top supporters.
So who are my top upvoters you ask?
Put your username in the site below created by @roelandp and scroll to the bottom.
I sorted by votes but you can also go by SBD payout.
Now that you have your list we can start creating our bot!
Step 1. Setup an account with http://heroku.com
This will require adding a credit card (I used my bitpay) to authorize your account, the card will not be charged at any point. Only authorized accounts can run the Heroku Scheduler, this will be needed later to run the bot every 10 minutes.
Step 2. Click this link to deploy the bot.
Step 3. Initial Configuration
- STEEM_USER (you user name)
- POSTING_KEY_PRV (your posting private key, located in wallet permissions at the top. Click show private key. This key only allows posting and no access to funds, super safe.)
- BOT_API_KEY (this is your password to log into your bot, it can be whatever)
- EMAIL_ADDRESS_TO (ignore)
- EMAIL_ADDRESS_SENDER (ignore)
- SENDGRID_API_KEY (ignore)
- COOKIE_SECRET (ignore)
Step 4. Click Deploy Be patient here, can take a few minutes to get going.
Step 5. Click View App and login with your password.
Step 6. Navigate to Edit Algorithm.
Step 7. Add the Algo
Key: post_up_voted_any_whitelisted
Weight: 100
Step 8. Add Steemit authors to whitelist with just a space in between them.
Step 9. Navigate to https://dashboard.heroku.com/
Step 10. Select your bot
Step 11. Navigate to the resources tab and select Heroku Scheduler
Step 12. Add node bot.js as the job and set it to run every 10 minutes, in theory you could add a second one five minutes later to have the bot run every five minutes.
Step 13. Wait, may take a while for your authors to post and get upvoted but you should start seeing votes come in on http://steemd.com/@username that you did not make. There is also a view log on the bot page if you want to check that.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, this feature will eventually be built into this site or a spin off of some kind. This is just getting it early, enjoy! If you run into any snags reach out to me or @personz in http://steemit.chat
I bet this post is heavily upvoted by bots :D
what if your supporters are bots also?
this setup only upvotes there posts, not their upvotes.
I guess I'm just old and don't understand these things. I only upvote after reading and liking the content of an article. There are people that I typically upvote, but I always read their stuff. Upvoted lol!
you are wright bro. bots are not good for all honest authors who wright after a long research.
I have a full time job and two kids. I do not have the time to read 40 articles a day to upvote on. It is nice that you do that though, you would be a great example of a curator to bot. The bot that upvotes your upvotes would be voting quality posts because of your diligence. For some reason when you use the word upvote bot people take the human element completely out for some reason. Must be because of too many terminator movies or something.
I don't know about the Terminator movies, I've never seen any. Being retired does have it's perks I guess. I guess the drawback to my approach is that I'll probably not make much money on here...I don't vote based on how much a post has generated. There are a few people I consistently upvote (you're one), but I read the content. I guess a bot would be useful if I miss somebody's post that I would have upvoted had I seen it.
Exactly! You want to be able to upvote missed posts. That is initially what even got me in the bot game. I recruited a bunch of friends to steemit and was missing their posts.
Don't have time, that's why the bots are created. They read and vote for you. They'll probably end up writing most the content. In the end run, who will need humans.
There would be no "who" without hu mans
Sexy Pic ;)
click bait confirmed...
That's how it go, if you grab my attention, i'm yours ;)
Hey man this was great. As you know I am new on here, and I have been a bit baffled by these bots but this rally makes sense, Beautifully done!
Thanks!
nice.
It's important for a healthy competition to educate others !
This curationsystem is beautiful and it's made for everybody.
It really is, hilarious meme. Maybe one day I will be able to drop dollars on posts.
Hi, I tried to set this up but Heroku account was asking for my credit info... I thought it was free. Any advice?
It is, they do not charge the card.
Says my account doesn't doesn't have permission to use sendgrid. Any advice?