XSTerminate by @deletebot

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Downloads!

Latest version is 0.9.8.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate/
Source Starter Pack: https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate/archive/master.zip
Windows Point and Click: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8rWObF4xz1YYk5xXzg0RGNRdVU/view?usp=sharing

Latest Updates

1/23/14 - Did the recent bitcointalk outage kill your XSTerminate bot? You don't need to worry about that again. Version 0.9.8 will stay live through even the most erratic bitcointalk behavior. I serendipitously tested this version through the recent bitcointalk outage without a hiccup.

What's more! XSTerminate now comes equipped with an option to blacklist users with fewer posts than a user defined cutoff. If your trolls think they are going to get around your luser list by creating new accounts, they need to think again.

12/23/14 - I have fixed several crashing issues related to network errors. The version (0.9.4) should be much more robust than the previous version.

If you use windows, follow the instructions at this post.

11/19/14 - I just fixed a crashing bug that comes from session termination when a user logs out of the bot account in a browser. This happens when the bot is running and the user logs into the bot account in a browser then logs out of the browser session by closing the browser or otherwise purposefully logging out. The bot will now recognize the situation and recover.

Also, getting started in windows is now much easier. Check this post.


Introduction

Let's face it, bitcointalk has become overrun with trolls.

On bitcoin talk, you could begin a thread dedicated to your love of your grandmother and in 5 minutes it would be crawling with trolls calling your own heartfelt feelings a scam, or worse. Of course by using the self moderation option when you create a thread, you can go through and laboriously delete each troll post manually. It's very gratifying but also a lot of work.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a bot that could do this for you?

Well now there is.

Introducing XSTerminate: a bitcointalk deletebot to rid unwanted visitors from your threads.

Using XSTerminate is easy. Just edit the config file according to your user name, password, topic number (found in the thread URL), and a couple of other settings. Then fill in your blacklist, which I like to call the "luser" list. Then, fire up XSTerminate, pointing it to your config file. And, like magic, you will have peace of mind. You can go to sleep knowing that the troll you despise is not going to come back without making a newbie account. And if he does, you can blacklist that account too! You wouldn't even have to restart XSTerminate either. Just edit the luser list and let XSTerminate take care of the rest.

To get started, you can download the XSTerminate program and example files here:
https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate/archive/master.zip

Or, you can go to github and clone the XSTerminate repository at https://github.com/deletebot/XSTerminate

The contents of the README.md file are below. Enjoy!


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XSTerminate

The Original Bitcointalk Delete Bot

XSTerminate is a bot that can crawl new messages in your thread and delete posts from unwelcome members.

XSTerminate is a python program with only two dependencies: pyyaml and BeautifulSoup.

XSTerminate can run as a daemon in *nix systems or as a console program in both Windows (NT+) and *nix systems. In *nix it can be killed with SIGINT (ctrl-C in the console) or SIGTERM in Windows. In such cases, it will terminate gracefully and save cookie information.


Usage


The file "deletebot.yml" is a yaml file with several settings.


Configuration

• user: the bitcointalk username
• password: the bitcointalk password (remove or make null for getpass)
• topic: the bitcointalk topic number found in the topic url
• lusers: the luser blacklist with one luser name per line
• activity: users must have this minimal activity to post
• sleep: be nice to bitcointalk by sleeping between thread reloads
• cookiefile: the file wherein cookies are stored
• debug: prints debug output if set to true; omit or set to false if unwanted

The settings "activity", "sleep", and "debug" can be changed in the config file while the bot is live and the bot will adjust its behavior upon the next reload of the thread messages.


Example Config File: "deletebot.yml"



Example Blacklist File: "lusers.txt"