The procedure I’ve been using so far is not that cool, and requires me to be at the keyboard clicking away like mad for the duration of the spree, with some SQL to select the URLs, and a plugin to open the URLs in batches.
Lately, I was playing around a bit with python to scrape profiles for now (seems to work now). Just when I finished monkeying around on this last spree, I thought I could try to do it in python, similarly to the scraper procedure, and I didn’t really give it a go until after seeing updates on this thread.
It seemed rather straight forward (although I’m novel on python, which makes me progress slowly), until I encountered that the I was not retrieving the "sc" value properly for the post command (I thought I was retrieving the proper value, but was not, leading to an expired session message when issuing the post command, which drove me nuts thinking it was something to do with the cookies).
The code is crap for now, but I managed award the last six merits on two separate tests using python:
• Today at 11:39:46 AM: 1 to salsacz for Re: Nxt marketing & promotion :: Enjoy Nxt on Bitcoinwisdom (erroneoulsy awarded)
• Today at 11:39:46 AM: 1 to TheBeardedBaby for Re: [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr even human?
• Today at 11:39:45 AM: 1 to fillippone for Re: [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr human?
• Today at 11:28:41 AM: 1 to hugeblack for Re: Help on how to fix on table.
• Today at 11:28:32 AM: 1 to TryNinja for Re: [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr even human? (deliberate)
• Today at 11:22:56 AM: 1 to TryNinja for Re: [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr even human?
Of course, when one manually edits a MessageId and accidently leaves out a digit, you get to merit a stray post from 2014 on the Altcoin board (cost of not having debugged the second test run I did over the last 3 awarded sMerits …).
Now it’s a question of placing the URLs to merit in a DB table, connect and loop and mark as done (watching out for cloudflare). I may try that next time round I go on one of these sprees.