[TelegramBot] Merit watcher and Mention Notification Bot

[giammangiato]

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Hello folks!
On @fillippone request

I made a Telegram bot to monitor personal merits stats and to be notified of mentions or quotes in posts!!!


Right sobstitute of Maggiordomo bot

Merit Watcher:
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new


Mention Notifier:





To use it:

• Open telegram chat t.me/Btctalk_meritbot
• Write or press /start
• Set your uid with /uid $$BITCOINTALKUID$$
• Set your nick with /nick $$BITCOINTALKNICK$$
• Wait. Every 5 minutes the bot checks your merits and if it has changed sends a Telegram message (like in the screenshot)

Example for me:

• Search on Telegram the bot Btctalk_meritbot
• Press

Code:

/start

• Set uid with

Code:

 /uid 889300

• Set nick with

Code:

 /nick giammangiato

• That's it!

Tech information:

• bot check merits every 5 minutes
• bot check mentions every 1 minutes

I hope it is working for everyone.
This is my first bot. Don't be rude with me!

[giammangiato]

usage statistics:
https://giammangiato.altervista.org/bot-merits/index.php [at-moment-not-work]

list of commands:

• /uid <number> | set your bitcointalk uid uid
• /myuid | your setted bitcointalk uid
• /nick <nick> | set nick for mention notifier
• /poke btctalknick | poke user without know his telegramid (for privacy)

regex for mention notifications:

Code:

$re  = '/(\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\s]*)/m';$
$req = '/Quote from: ([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\s]*)/m';

features requested:

• FEATURE: trust change notification
• FEATURE: You can add Trust notifications weekly. Those who add or remove you trust list. Like this page. Or you can link directly, when the update takes place. Usually @Loycev updates on Tuesdays.
• FIX: There is no need for notification when the name is mentioned in the quote in quote.
• FEATURE: More sentences than quotes. It would be good. 6-7 words are not understandable.
• FEATURE: btc address watch and notify
• FEATURE: unsubscribe from bot (without stopping it)
• FEATURE: review ux with buttons

features done:

• FEATURE: try to scrape every merits line on merits page - need alt account / Merit sender and topic link. As on the Merit page.
• migration to real db DONE
• fix poke msg to unknow user DONE
• add space in regex DONE
• preview of message (notification) @Kalemder DONE
• if unsubscribed, poke return message @fillippone DONE
• fix: not sent notification when autoquote DONE
• add quoting to mention DONE
• fix stored link DONE

[fillippone]

Registered.
But I want real time! Constant merit notification!
#meritruinedmylife.

Also, put a nice picture as channel image. Imagination is the limit.

[giammangiato]

Registered.
But I want real time! Constant merit notification!
#meritruinedmylife.

Also, put a nice picture as channel image. Imagination is the limit.

Picture? Ummm ok. Give me a picture and i insert it.
Real time i think not. I can decrease from 60 minutes to 10 minutes, when i'm sure work well.


And i think i can add:
- stats (like avg daily merits) for example

[lulucrypto]

Ha ha, I really like this kind of project !

I signed up

Small question, how do you get the merits of each user ?

Do you use the downloadable merit file ?

[TryNinja]

Small question, how do you get the merits of each user ?

Do you use the downloadable merit file ?

Apparently he (probably) checks your merit count and sees if it increased.

OP: Something is wrong. I already got 4 messages in 4 minutes saying the same thing:

(UP) MERITS 1687 your merit page https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=557798

And it keeps happening.

Honestly, I think that if you track the page linked above of recent merits, and notify people according to the new merit transactions, you can have a better bot (notifying people based on every new transaction; e.g: "you received 2 merits for your post XXXX.") rather than just checking the merit count.

[lulucrypto]

Apparently he (probably) checks your merit count and sees if it increased.

OP: Something is wrong. I already got 4 messages in 4 minutes saying the same thing:

Um, yes it's most likely.

OP: Something is wrong. I already got 4 messages in 4 minutes saying the same thing:

Yes I have the problem too. In addition I do not know why I receive constant notifications from the bot ( Every ~ 10 seconds ). So I muted the bot.

[fillippone]

Same problem here.
I want a notification only when my merit count increases.
Sadly I had to mute the bot.

This bring to mind: how do I unsubscribe?

[asu]

I happened to encounter same problem on my end too.

This bring to mind: how do I unsubscribe?

Try this:
• Hover into the bot avatar (the circle one).
• Click it.
• Now, there's 3 dots icon in profile page.
• Click and you'll see an option "stop bot".

[giammangiato]

Ha ha, I really like this kind of project !

I signed up

Small question, how do you get the merits of each user ?

Do you use the downloadable merit file ?

thank you
guest cant view a list of merits (give and receive, i cant do this

OP: Something is wrong. I already got 4 messages in 4 minutes saying the same thing:

(UP) MERITS 1687 your merit page https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=557798

And it keeps happening.

Honestly, I think that if you track the page linked above of recent merits, and notify people according to the new merit transactions, you can have a better bot (notifying people based on every new transaction; e.g: "you received 2 merits for your post XXXX.") rather than just checking the merit count.

sorry my mistake, i try to put from 60 minutes to 3 minutes, i try another time tomorrow

Same problem here.
I want a notification only when my merit count increases.
Sadly I had to mute the bot.

This bring to mind: how do I unsubscribe?

for unsubscribe stop bot ad dont mind


little question guys: the bot is still spamming?

i think not at moment

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

[TryNinja]

guest cant view a list of merits (give and receive, i cant do this

Then log in. Most bots are logged in when they scrape the forum. Both Loyce and Piggy use an account for their bots.

sorry my mistake, i try to put from 60 minutes to 3 minutes, i try another time tomorrow

The bot will always message you once every 60 minutes with your merit count? That surely isn't the best solution. It should message you only when you receive new merits, and only once.

little question guys: the bot is still spamming?

No.

[lulucrypto]

Ha ha, I really like this kind of project !

I signed up

Small question, how do you get the merits of each user ?

Do you use the downloadable merit file ?

thank you
guest cant view a list of merits (give and receive, i cant do this

Hmm, how do you do in this case ?

Also, depending on what language you have developed your bot, it is possible to open a session on Bitcointalk with an "ALT" account to get the merits list

[giammangiato]

The bot will always message you once every 60 minutes with your merit count? That surely isn't the best solution. It should message you only when you receive new merits, and only once.

no bot send message only if merits count change

Code:

if oldmerits != newmerits

for alt account (for scrape forum), i can create it?


edit: tomorrow i try to move update from 60 mins to 10 mins

[lulucrypto]

thank you
guest cant view a list of merits (give and receive, i cant do this

Hmm, how do you do in this case ?

Also, depending on what language you have developed your bot, it is possible to open a session on Bitcointalk with an "ALT" account to get the merits list

For information, you can see a sample session used on Bitcointalk in the source code of my bot developed in Node.JS
- https://github.com/luluwebmaster/bitcointalk-auto-verify-signatures-archive-and-alert/blob/master/app.js#L710

Feel free to reuse the code as you see fit

[TryNinja]

for alt account (for scrape forum), i can create it?

Alt accounts aren't prohibited. You can have as many accounts as you want. What you can't do is use another account if you have one banned permanently (bannable offense), or if you are cheating bounties/signatures/scamming with multiple accounts (not a bannable offense, but will get you a few negative trusts.)

Even mods have multiple accounts.

[tranthidung]

edit: tomorrow i try to move update from 60 mins to 10 mins

I appreciated your time to build up that bot but in my opinion, I don't think that bot is good for users.

At least, it has one disadvantage for users: They will be distracted from their merit notification. Consequently, they will probably spend less time to read and improve their understandings on forum rules (unofficial), and good documents (inside and outside the forum).

I imagine the disadvantage as same as what traders (non-professsional) spend all their time in front of computer screen. Furthermore, one or two merits come don't change or ruin your life. 

[Bttzed03]

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At least, it has one disadvantage for users: They will be distracted from their merit notification. Consequently, they will probably spend less time to read and improve their understandings on forum rules (unofficial), and good documents (inside and outside the forum).

I get the point of getting somewhat distracted but I think you are exaggerating its effect on users here. It's not like they will be waiting for the bot notification the whole time they are online and do nothing else.

edit:
The bot could be useful also to those who wants to save their nice merit record.

[babo]

Nice job @giammangiato, you bot is usefull for me. I want to track my merits and if you can track single record of merits page is awesome.
Statistics are awesome too (in my humble opinion of course)

Thank you

[giammangiato]

Thank you all for merits, my near goal is 100 and i hope can reach it.
For the bot, is usefull or not, i dont know. For me and @fillippone is good tool (like @maggiordomo).

Next week i try to create an ALT account for scrape individual merits line.

[libert19]

Good work. Idea for you, can similar be done for bitcointalk mentions, quotes, thread replies as well? I guess it'd be helpful.

Just a suggestion