Adding functionality to the Winfrey Vote Bot

=First off a big thanks to @fyrstikken and everyone else that worked on the Winfrey Bot. And also thanks to @thebatchman for doing this great addition to the Winfrey Bot.

I began using the bot over the weekend. And I must say it worked fantastically. However I was wondering if I could automatically import the list of users that I follow. Rather than typing them out manually in the bot scrypt i n order to vote at 100% voting power.

Unfortunately the version of python steem that I'm using doesn't have this functionality. But luckily enough I was able to find a post on steemit by @cryptomental. In it he outlined a class you could use to see who you are following and who your followers were.

I adapted his class as follows.

The first thing we need to do is import the following:

from steemapi.steemnoderpc import SteemNodeRPC

Once you import SteemNodeRPC  you are able to query the api with this class.

# begin finding who we follow
# start call to SteemNodeRPC
class FollowMe(object):
   def __init__(self):
       self.rpc = SteemNodeRPC("wss://node.steem.ws", "", "", apis=["follow"])

   # get who we follow
   def following(self,account):
       return  [ f['following'] for f in self.rpc.get_following(account, "", "blog", 100, api="follow") ]

Once you have this class somewhere accessible. You can instantiate the class with the folowing.

# call FollowMe
f = FollowMe()
# set the iamfollowinglist. Currently we are just grabbing the first line. Eventually we can loop through this if  we want.
iamfollowing = f.following(account[0])
#print iamfollowing to see if it got anything. Comment out if you don't want to see this
#print("followers %s" % iamfollowing)

And finally we can append the iamfollowing list to the my_subscriptions list. Or really anywhere else we wish.

my_subscriptions = top_writers + my_favorites + iamfollowing

In addition to this. If we wanted to vote for everyone following us. We could create a followers function.

  def followers(self, account):         
     return [ f['follower'] for f in self.rpc.get_followers(account, "", "blog", 100, api="follow") ]  

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I hope you enjoyed my small improvement to this bot.

EDIT

I need to add that we also have to append iamfollowing variable to the my_fovorites variable.

my_fovorites = my_favorites + iamfollowing

This needs to be done in order for the bot to actually vote your favorites at 100% voting power. I'll keep testing.

I've put the entire code on pastebin. Click Here to view it.

UPDATE: BroadcastingError

If you are encountering this error when you run your script. It's because the newer version of piston steem is not backwards compatible. 

You must install an earlier version of python steem. Uninstall piston/steem related libraries with pip3. 

Then install steem with the following.

pip3 install steem==0.3.1

This worked for me just fine. After spending a few days trying to figure out this issue.

UPDATE 2/15/2017

I forked @thebatchman github repository. If your interested in forking or downloading via git. It's here.

https://github.com/grey580/steemit-autovoter