RE: Howto: Steemit Bot Tutorial For Newbies #1 - Votebot

[sneak]

Change the following line:

steem = Steem(wif="5yourpostingkeyhere")

to

steem = Steem(wif=os.environ['WIF_POSTING'])

Then, before you run the script, in the terminal, set the following environment variable:

export WIF_POSTING='5KDWWnSQiPtVhzCquaBWhbWS8UNoAkeNuuCm8uJJE6EiSqt514p'

(or whatever your WIF is, the above example is a worthless random key)

then run the script as normal. It will pick up the posting key from your WIF_POSTING environment variable. Now you can save your code on GitHub or wherever else safely. :)

Comments

[xeroc]

Actually, since the latest release of python-steem, the library also contains a wallet that can be managed through piston.
Just import your keys with

piston addkeys

and use

from steem import Steem

Since wif keys are stored encrypted, you will be asked to provide the password when voting. If you want to unlock the wallet from script, you can use the UNLOCK environmental variable:

UNLOCK="wallet-passphrase" python3 bot.py

[felixxx]

Thanks !

For the next episode I wanted to use a config file instead. :)