Seeking programmers to build a Goldcoin Reddit tip bot

[tadspoles]

I asked a while back if anyone could make a reddit tip bot.  Are there any programmers that can do this?  I believe this REALLY helped DogeCoin with exposure.

[MicroGuy]

Seeking programmers to build a Goldcoin Reddit bot might best go under project development. I'm not sure what a tipbot is?

Is this what you mean? http://www.reddit.com/r/ALTcointip/wiki/index

Generally when I make a new sub-forum it's when we have several threads that don't fit elsewhere and need a new home.

[CircuitSix]

I have the source code for the original bitcointip and will look into seeing what it may take to set this up. Of course it may be kind of useless if it does not gain any traction on reddit. I will let you know what I find out in the coming days.

[Stouse49]

Any progress here?  I took a look at some of the code, from DOGE coin.  I got lost in it.  It appears to need a SQL server and I suppose a daemon running, but not sure.

[POTUS]

I've been working on it for the past couple days and I have to say, the process is needlessly complicated. Dogecointip is a fork of the altcointip bot and that uses opscodes' chef to handle pretty much everything. For someone with a working chef node, it'd be fairly trivial to get the bot up and running, but for anyone who's never heard of chef, this opens up a huge can of worms. Its beyond complicated to set up.

That said, looking at dogetipbots' repo on github, the instructions seem fairly straightforward. I'll be trying to set that up on my personal server for the next little while. Nothing guarantee of course 

[CircuitSix]

Any progress here?  I took a look at some of the code, from DOGE coin.  I got lost in it.  It appears to need a SQL server and I suppose a daemon running, but not sure.

I did make some progress with it, however I think it would be better to get other tipbots to support goldcoin instead of trying to create a single bot for it. At the moment I am doing some rather heavy scripting and design changes for a new pool interface. Once I complete these changes and migrate servers I will take a look at it again.

[POTUS]

Good progress. Spent a couple hours and I finally got a test bot working. Now I just need some volunteers to help test it.

To get started, send a message to "bob_test" with the subject "register" and the message body with "+register". Then check your inbox after a minute or so for your deposit address. Deposit some coins to that address and start tipping away! It may take a while for your deposit to show up. Check after 10 or so confirmations by messaging the bot again with "+info" in the message body.

Syntax to tip someone would be reply to whomever you want to tip with the following in the message "+/u/bob_test x gld"

As of now, the bot only works on messages in /r/goldcoin to avoid spamming other subreddits

Disclaimer: Be prepared to lose whatever you deposit into the test bot. Don't deposit large sums. Start small - 5 coins to start with perhaps.

[AZIZ1977]

Good progress. Spent a couple hours and I finally got a test bot working. Now I just need some volunteers to help test it.

To get started, send a message to "bob_test" with the subject "register" and the message body with "+register". Then check your inbox after a minute or so for your deposit address. Deposit some coins to that address and start tipping away! It may take a while for your deposit to show up. Check after 10 or so confirmations by messaging the bot again with "+info" in the message body.

Syntax to tip someone would be reply to whomever you want to tip with the following in the message "+/u/bob_test x gld"

As of now, the bot only works on messages in /r/goldcoin to avoid spamming other subreddits

Disclaimer: Be prepared to lose whatever you deposit into the test bot. Don't deposit large sums. Start small - 5 coins to start with perhaps.

Nice

http://www.reddit.com/r/goldcoin/comments/1wc1qr/goldcoin_tip_test_bot_is_live/

[tadspoles]

GREAT JOB MAN!!!  I will be on a bit later and will help test.  Thanks so very much!

[MicroGuy]

This is great news! Thanks POTUS!

I'll add this thread now to the rotating news announcements at the top of the forum.  ()

[psionin]

Very cool!

I sent a +register and a +info message but haven't gotten anything back so far. It's been about an hour.

[POTUS]

I sent a +register and a +info message but haven't gotten anything back so far.

I'm looking into it right now. The bot has WAY too many bugs than I'd like so I'll have to squash them one at a time, very slowly.

EDIT: Looks like my server is acting up. I'm going to remake the bot on my personal server and see what happens.

[POTUS]

Update: I've re-deployed the bot on a different server. Please register again. Hopefully things will work this time.

Ignore registration confirmations prior to this message. They were from the old server which is inactive.

Thanks to everyone for helping test this.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk

[POTUS]

Final update:

I've rented out a server for a full year and configured the final version of the (fully working) bot. The username of that bot is "/u/goldcointip" and I've made a subreddit for it as well. This subreddit will host the tipping bots' wiki page - usage instructions, discussions about the bot itself, bug reports, and links to the various Goldcoin resources. I'll be building that out over the next little while. The subreddit can be found here: http://reddit.com/r/goldcointip . There's nothing visible at the moment, but we should have some content later on.

As before, message the bot with "+register" in the body to get registered, then follow up with "+info" for your address. Deposit some coins and you can start tipping anyone in any thread. Just reply to the comment you want to give goldcoins to with "+/u/goldcointip x gld" where x is the amount you want to send. You can even replace x with some fun values like "beer" or "leet" or "pi". All these will be added to the wiki soon.

If, when you register (or tip someone) with the bot you don't get a reply back, don't worry. The bot is working, but the first bunch of replies have to be manually approved because of reddits' CAPTCHA system. I'll have to input captchas manually until the bot gains positive karma at which point it'll be fully automated. So, uh... get those upvotes going

Thanks to everyone who helped test the previous versions.

[tadspoles]

Man you are the freaking MAN!!!