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I use this fantastic easy bot every day, it run extremely smooth and gets the job done without any hassle. You will love it!

<center><h1>The 3 Simple Tasks You Must Do First!</h1></center>

- Install GIT from <a href="https://git-scm.com/downloads">This Website</a>
- Install Python 3+ from <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/">This Website</a>
- Install Piston from <a href="http://piston.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html">This Website</a>

<center><h1>Now You Are Ready To Use The Upvote-Bot!</h1></center>

<h1><center><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9eergyk4mfnd5o8/steemit-upvote-bot.zip?dl=1">Download The Steemit Upvote-Bot Here</a></center></h1>

Inside the ZIP-File you will find two files. The <b>votebot.py</b> and the <b>votelist.txt</b> and for full transparency this is how they look like. If you need any help setting them up or fiddle with the settings, please come to <a href="http://steemspeak.com">SteemSpeak</a> and we will help you as best we can.

<h3>votebot.py</h3>
````
from piston.steem import Steem
from piston.steem import BroadcastingError
import threading
import time
import random
import csv
 
# my favorite blogs on steemit
top_writers = []

# add my favorites
my_favorites = []
 
with open('votelist.txt', mode='r') as infile:
    reader = csv.reader(infile)
    for rows in reader:
        v = rows[0]
        top_writers.append(v)
 
my_subscriptions = top_writers + my_favorites
account = ["your-account-name"]
posting_key = ["your-posting-key"]
active_key = []
vote_delay = random.randrange(500,1000)
 
upvote_history = []
 
def feed():
    print("Waiting for new posts by %s\n" % my_subscriptions)
    steem = Steem(wif=posting_key[0])
    for comment in steem.stream_comments():
 
        if comment.author in my_subscriptions:
            # Comments don't have titles. This is how we can know if we have a post or a comment.
            if len(comment.title) > 0:
 
                # check if we already upvoted this. Sometimes the feed will give duplicates.
                if comment.identifier in upvote_history:
                    continue
 
                print("New post by @%s %s" % (comment.author, url_builder(comment)))
                workerThread = threading.Thread(name=comment.identifier, target=worker, args=(comment,))
                workerThread.start()
 
# send $0.1 in SBD
def send_a_tip(author):
    steem = Steem(wif=active_key)
    steem.transfer(author, 0.001, "SBD", memo="I love your blog. Here is a small gift for you.", account=account)
 
 
def url_builder(comment):
    return "https://steemit.com/%s/%s" % (comment.category, comment.identifier)
 
def worker(worker_comment):
     time.sleep(vote_delay)
     try:
       for (k,v) in enumerate(account):
         worker_steem = Steem(wif=posting_key[k])
         upvote_comment = worker_steem.get_content(worker_comment.identifier)
         upvote_comment.vote(100, v)
         print("====> Upvoted")
         upvote_history.append(upvote_comment.identifier)
     except BroadcastingError as e:
       print("Upvoting failed...")
       print("We have probably reached the upvote rate limit.")
       print(str(e))
 
       if upvote_comment.author in my_favorites:
         send_a_tip(upvote_comment.author)
         print("====> Sent $0.01 SBD to @%s" % upvote_comment.author)
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    while True:
        try:
            feed()
        except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
            print("Quitting...")
            break
        except Exception as e:
            traceback.print_exc()
            print("### Exception Occurred: Restarting...")
````
So, the above <b>python-script</b> is the instructions for your bot, but you need to put in your own account-name (without the @) and the private posting-key for that account. If you have multiple accounts, you can comma-separate them on the same line, and the same with your private posting-keys if you run a curation-guild or something like that.

<h3>votelist.txt</h3>
````
fyrstikken
furion
contentjunkie
xeroc
steempowertwins
````
This is where you store the people you want to upvote, you can add as many as you want. The bot was originally created by @furion, upgraded and maintained by @contentjunkie, tested hard and brutally by @fyrstikken and @xeroc of course is the brilliant mind behind Piston.

<h3>This is how you run the Upvote-Bot</h3>
You can either doubleclick or open your upvote-bot with Python3, or you can use command-lines. I will show you two command-lines you can use to make the bot run:

- <h1>The First Method</h1>
<h4>Open a Terminal-Window and use the following command from the directory your bot-files are placed:</h4>

`python3 votebot.py`
This command will run your bot, but if it crashes and refuse to restart in the middle of the night, that is a problem so a little hack around that problem by @inertia is to use this command instead from the terminal-window:

- <h1>The Second Method</h1>
<h4>Open a Terminal-Window and use the following command from the directory your bot-files are placed:</h4>

`while :; do python3 votebot.py; sleep 5; done`
This command will make your bot loop, so if it crashes - it will wait 5 seconds and start it up again.

<h1><center><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9eergyk4mfnd5o8/steemit-upvote-bot.zip?dl=1">Download The Steemit Upvote-Bot Here</a></center></h1>

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<center><h1>To Bot or not to Bot - that is the question</h1></center>

over the past many months I have heard all kinds of arguments for use, abuse and do not use bots for voting, and I personally think that is pretty lame. Everybody should run upvote-bots and make sure their favorite writers, photographers, artists, promoters and whatever you subscribe/follow gets your upvote while there is time to upvote.

I personally cannot read all the articles people post immediately when they post, I have other obligations - but when I have the time, I sit down and I read and comment - even if the article is a week old. Every blogger on steemit that I upvote is someone I want to encourage to keep posting on steemit, and I am looking forward to read their stuff when I have the time.

Steemit is GREAT for content-creators, and we all have plenty of votes to go around, so let us all start using them!

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<center>To make me a Proxy for your witness-votes go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses and type in <b>fyrstikken</b> in the proxy-field</center>