dcom: A curation bot on Discord for STEEM communities

dcom (discord community bot) is a (python3.6+) bot for communities to trigger upvotes from specified discord channels/servers.

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I have built a couple of discord bots for community curations in the past. ^{1, 2}

A couple of days ago, one of the communities I have been involved with asked a similar bot for their upcoming discord server. Since I am doing -almost- the same thing third time, this time I have decided to make it a generic bot package. It's usable for every kind of community for curation with community curation accounts.

It has a handful validators in place before upvoting and this will be increase in time.

Installation

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$ pip install dcom

Configuration

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You should create a configuration file stored at ~/.dcom_env.

Example variables:

BOT_ACCOUNT=<bot_username>
BOT_POSTING_KEY=<bot_posting_key>
STEEM_NODES=https://api.steemit.com
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=<discord_bot_token>
CHANNEL_WHITELIST=<channel_id_1>,<channel_id_2>
LATE_CURATION_WINDOW=561600
EARLY_CURATION_WINDOW=800
CURATOR_GROUPS=curators,admins

Key	Value
BOT_ACCOUNT	The account used for the curation
BOT_POSTING_KEY	Private posting key of the curation account
STEEM_NODES	A list of STEEM nodes (comma separated)
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN	<Token of the discord bot>
CHANNEL_WHITELIST	Curation channel id list (comma separated)
LATE_CURATION_WINDOW	Maximum age for a post (in seconds)
EARLY_CURATION_WINDOW	Minimum age for a post (in seconds)
CURATOR_GROUPS	Discord roles authorized to use the bot (comma separated)

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Running

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$ dcom

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Roadmap

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• discord.py uses asyncio, while I use lightsteem to broadcast transactions. lightsteem or other steem libraries blocks the asyncio loop. It's not making a huge difference on a small scale like this, but it would be good to have an async solution here.

• Adding more generic commands. These commands should be kind of commands that every community can benefit. Expanding more commands also needs some refactoring on the code to make the commands modular.

• Integration with blacklist APIs

• Implementation of an internal blacklist system.

Commits

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https://github.com/emre/dcom/commits/master