How to Create Steemit Accounts using the Command Line Steempy
How to Create Steemit Accounts using the Steempy CLI
I just tried to create a new Steemit account using Steempy and got an error, so as much to make a note for myself as help others in the same situation, here is what you need to do to create a Steemit account on your command line using Steempy!
Here is the first error I got:
ValueError: Not creator account given. Define it with creator=x, or set the default_account using steempy
That is because I was missing the parameter for which account should be the creator.
This is the correct format, if your creator account is not already stored as the default:
steempy newaccount NEWACCOUNTNAME --account YOURACCOUNT
If the account already exists you will see this error:
AccountExistsException
If this error shows ...
!check_max_block_age( _max_block_age ):
... then your chosen node might be bad/dow. If so you can try:
steempy set nodes https://rpc.steemviz.com
Once you have had some errors you might get this error:
ValueError: Key already in storage
You will need to list your accounts:
steempy listaccounts
... then delete the bad keys ...
steempy delkey BADKEYHERE000111QWERTYUIOPQWERTYUIOP
Hope this helps!
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Nice article btw.
What is the idea behind this? Are you creating users so you can upvote your own stuff? Also is that kind of thing allowed?
Btw you can use git's markup for syntax on here. It looks something like this when you use it:
With Another command:
No I’m making accounts for posting about different article topics because over posting on a single account is looked down on.
Interesting. I didn't know that this is looked down on. Is the community fine with users having multiple accounts? Is there some documentation or blog post perhaps that you could point me to? Thanks.
The community seems to prefer multiple accounts over multiple postings per day but obviously multiple accounts that are there just to suck money from the system is abuse
FAQ
https://steemit.com/faq.html#Am_I_allowed_to_create_more_than_one_account
Ettiquette on multiple postings
https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptofiend/the-complete-steemit-etiquette-guide-revision-2-0
Cool Thanks
Thanks. Added to my wiki: https://yoirtuts.com/index.php?title=Steemit
So when using Steempy
This creates with delegation or with steem -> SP? From what I know Steempy's default is to create with steem. How do I change this default to create account with delegation?
I think you can use the fee parameter