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Topic: LoyceV's: Follow users on Bitcointalk.org (posts and/or topics) (Read 2109 times)

legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
This reminds me, do you have a privacy policy page?
No, but if you type one, I'll scrape it instantly Smiley

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I think you need one to protect the intellectual asset.
It's all public data Smiley

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Also you need it in case of any damage happen like server compromise and things like that.
There shouldn't be any data on loyce.club that wasn't public in the first place.
legendary
Activity: 2800
Merit: 2736
Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
For the record: I don't Tongue And that's what you should always assume when you don't want data to be compromised.
Even though I won't do it intentional, anything on a server can be compromised. It can be because I made a mistake, law enforcement or even a curious employee at the webhost.
This reminds me, do you have a privacy policy page? I think you need one to protect the intellectual asset. Also you need it in case of any damage happen like server compromise and things like that.

TL;DR: don't ever assume anyone is safe Smiley
The whole internet is a Wild Wild West.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
~ so I think anything in the hand's of you are safe.
For the record: I don't Tongue And that's what you should always assume when you don't want data to be compromised.
Even though I won't do it intentional, anything on a server can be compromised. It can be because I made a mistake, law enforcement or even a curious employee at the webhost.
TL;DR: don't ever assume anyone is safe Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2800
Merit: 2736
Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
There are more reasons for using Tor than just loyce.club Smiley
I have been using TOR from long time. Even with those VPN you are not safe. So tor is the safest so far among all. By the way, I hope thick skin gang leader does not mind my last post. You built up enormous trust around the community so I think anything in the hand's of you are safe.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
In future (maybe already) LoyceV is going to store your IP and other browser information
That's the Apache default.

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to trace your movements and send you nice pop up ads like all those social media and search engine does LOL
I don't care enough to do that Tongue

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I would recommend using TOR browser
There are more reasons for using Tor than just loyce.club Smiley

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or someday you will mess with Loyce and he will send interpol at your door 😂
Again: I don't care enough for that Tongue

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Is it possible to disclose what sorts of information (browser) you store?
I (and when I say "I" I really mean just the VPS) store anything Apache logs by default. Initially I didn't expect to ever look at it, but it comes in handy when there's a very agressive scraping bot once in a while.

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Edit: What!!! This is a two years old topic LOL
Welcome Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2800
Merit: 2736
Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
Following back anyone who follows me 🤣 this week only! (they do this on all other social media).
Now we will ask everyone to follow each others and build a forum social value 😉

Well no worries. It's a super thing and I for one have every faith.
In future (maybe already) LoyceV is going to store your IP and other browser information to trace your movements and send you nice pop up ads like all those social media and search engine does LOL

Nice script by the way. I would recommend using TOR browser or someday you will mess with Loyce and he will send interpol at your door 😂

Is it possible to disclose what sorts of information (browser) you store?

Edit: What!!! This is a two years old topic LOL
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
I’m wondering if you can expand it a little via one of these two ways:
1)   Allow a selection of which follower AND which section they post in, like Bitcoin or Beginners
2)   That may be difficult, so maybe the output could be modified (like the Red below):
Sorry, I can't (easily) do this. I don't keep track of the board on which a post is made, and considering barely anyone uses this, I don't think it's worth adding.
I know TryNinja has a database with all the data required, but as far as I know he's short on time too.
full member
Activity: 378
Merit: 197
Hi LoyceV,

The following of a user seems to be working great.

I’m wondering if you can expand it a little via one of these two ways:

1)   Allow a selection of which follower AND which section they post in, like Bitcoin or Beginners
             a.   P:175361:Bitcoin
                     T:1188543:Beginners & Help



2)   That may be difficult, so maybe the output could be modified (like the Red below):

LoyceV posted in Bitcoin: LoyceV's Avatar for Rent [first 39 weeks rented out] (backup Thu Feb 10 09:36:43 CET 2022: unedited post)

full member
Activity: 378
Merit: 197
Toughit

Follow list - test

Code:
P:1188543
P:459836
P:1582324
P:1169179
P:175361
P:1478835
T:1188543
T:459836
T:1554927
T:1169179
T:175361
T:1478835

legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Is this still working?
Judging by my own list, it still works. I haven't used this in a while though, and I don't even know if there's an active user left.
Just post in the correct format to try it out Smiley

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And is it the only way to follow?
It's the only service I know, other than manually checking a user's post history.
full member
Activity: 378
Merit: 197
Hi LoyceV,   

there are a couple interesting people I would like to follow.  Is this still working?  And is it the only way to follow?
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
it appears that the whole .club thing is down:
That's just bad! Is Zuckerberg running it or something? Tongue

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Edit: it's working again.
For me it works again through Tor, but not (yet?) on my own computer. It works again Smiley
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/loyce.club shows it's up too.

The good news is that AWS just keeps running, so none of the notifications (or other data) should have been lost.
legendary
Activity: 3654
Merit: 8909
https://bpip.org
"Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at loyce.club."
I just noticed this, and I don't know why Sad

Looks like a DNS issue. Not sure how the root servers work with these newfangled TLDs but it appears that the whole .club thing is down:

https://get.club
https://nic.club

Same error.

Edit: it's working again.
copper member
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1901
Amazon Prime Member #7
"Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at loyce.club."
I just noticed this, and I don't know why Sad
It seems that all your services are down. Your 'home page' and search page for viewing unedited posts are available, but all pages with actual data are inaccessible.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
"Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at loyce.club."
I just noticed this, and I don't know why Sad
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
(Am posting this here in case you haven't received a notification elsewhere)

I'm using Tor and have refreshed over the last thirty minutes to different locations and keep getting the same response.

e.g. https://loyce.club/profile.html?id=2705665

"Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at loyce.club."
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
I wasn't planning on doing that, since only a few people use this.

All good - was just a thought bubble.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
I wasn't planning on doing that, since only a few people use this.
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
Bump!
Is anyone even using this?

From time to time I do, yes.

I was wondering if this: https://loyce.club/follow/131361.html

could be added to this: https://loyce.club/profile.html?id=131361 or even this https://loyce.club/profiles/13/131361.html please?
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Bump!
Is anyone even using this?
legendary
Activity: 2744
Merit: 1708
First 100% Liquid Stablecoin Backed by Gold
Code:
T: 131333
T: 881377
P: 881377
P: 35
T: 35
P: 234771
T: 234771
P: 3
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
This service got stuck a few days ago, but it works again Smiley

I'm not sure if anyone's even using it. Should I keep this working?
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
There's a small glitch in the system - I haven't checked the others on this page: http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html but my mobile alt has posted twice in the last week [1a], [1b] yet it's coming up that no one has posted. [2a], [2b]
Interesting: I have this post archived, so it shouldn't have been overlooked. I don't know what went wrong, and unfortunately I don't have the time to check/test it now.

That's OK - no rush I haven't used the page for a few days now.  I figured it might go into hibernation if not used.,
it must be cold standing in line outside those cafes at the moment waiting to get supplies Wink
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
There's a small glitch in the system - I haven't checked the others on this page: http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html but my mobile alt has posted twice in the last week [1a], [1b] yet it's coming up that no one has posted. [2a], [2b]
Interesting: I have this post archived, so it shouldn't have been overlooked. I don't know what went wrong, and unfortunately I don't have the time to check/test it now.
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
There's a small glitch in the system - I haven't checked the others on this page: http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html but my mobile alt has posted twice in the last week [1a], [1b] yet it's coming up that no one has posted. [2a], [2b]
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
There seems to be a glitch in #7 http://loyce.club/follow/479624.html
Thanks, it's a nasty one that keeps popping up. It's caused by some changes in the environment after moving to AWS, and it only happens when running from a cronjob. I haven't been able to find a real fix, and the workaround needs to be applied to every affected case individually.
It's fixed now, thanks Smiley

Cøbra's username has caused me so many problems Tongue
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
legendary
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1285
Flying Hellfish is a Commie
Unsure if I'm a bit slow or something here, though I'm coming over from Piggys little quote notification bot, wanted to know how / If it'd be possible to see if someone quotes me or replies to one of my post. Rather then the regular notify button, as that goes away after the one email.

Thanks Loyce, I appreciate it.
member
Activity: 504
Merit: 23
Epsilon Omega
Code:
T:35
T:459836
T:1269701
T:355846
T:234771
P:3
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Well no worries. It's a super thing and I for one have every faith.
I think I fixed it, but I need more new posts and topics to test it.

Links to topics created before my fix may be lost.
copper member
Activity: 2562
Merit: 2510
Spear the bees
Code:
T:35
P:98986
T:164822
P:51173
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 4392
Be a bank
Well no worries. It's a super thing and I for one have every faith.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Are you mending it? It shows theymos and satoshi's nyms but not anyone else's.
My last fix broke more things... I'll try to fix it now, but it's going to take a while as I'm changing my approach.

Code:
T:1067333
T:234771
T:355846
legendary
Activity: 2716
Merit: 2093
Join the world-leading crypto sportsbook NOW!
Code:
T: 459836
P: 538922
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Code:
~snip~
Adding a space didn't work, but I've fixed that. See http://loyce.club/follow/1289002.html for your list.

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Maybe I can share this in our local to help you gather more users/testers if you allow me to do so.
Sure, go ahead.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1563
Code:
P: 35
P: 857883
P: 487418
P: 1605387
P: 1582324
P: 698159
P: 1143164
P: 914465
T: 1000199

It is a pain in the ass if I kept searching and scanning their post each and every day. Gladly I found your tool in B&H section. Gotta help you find some bugs and recommendation.

Maybe I can share this in our local to help you gather more users/testers if you allow me to do so.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Do I have to add new UID's in new posts, or just update this one?
Either one (edit or new post) should work.

I am in.
Bug: DdmrDdmr's topic is shown as my topic. I'll have some time to look at it later.
And suchmoon's topic here was started by yahoo62278.

Update: what failed, is that my scraper didn't catch yahoo62278's new topic as being a new topic. Instead, it assumed suchmoon's post was the one that created the topic. I'm not sure yet what's the best way to fix this.

I missed 907 posts yesterday, anything in that that should have been followed won't show up:
Today, I slightly moved my netbook, and just touching it was enough to make it crash. Unfortunately, I had to go at that moment, so I couldn't fix it right away.
That means, I haven't archived any posts for between posts 53250266 and 53251174. The gap is just under 1.5 hours.
Unfortunately, I can't catch up on those 907 posts
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
I am in.
Code:
T:459836
T:881377
legendary
Activity: 3696
Merit: 2219
💲🏎️💨🚓
Code:

T:94331
T:251328
T:154289
T:289011
T:881377
T:355846
T:1021758
T:1052091
T:1478835
T:2136362
T:2767731

P:37522
P:51908
P:101763
P:109881
P:133846
P:177454
P:343899
P:2640757


http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html (BPIP) (Ranking)

I guess I'm taking requests now Cheesy
IsTimelord2067onDTyet.tk

Small disclaimer: I only check for DT2. Theymos blacklisted Lauda, so there was no need to add it. Timelord2067 is 2 inclusions away from DT1, so I'll just add this to my TODO list.




(DT update log)



Do I have to add new UID's in new posts, or just update this one? (am testing out with a couple of names)

Do I have to add new UID's in new posts, or just update this one?
Either one (edit or new post) should work.



(Not really sure where else to put this)

Allow me to add some links and more information to your post (and add arulbero):
Removed:

(removed)

Added:

    7. Legendary Timelord2067 (Trust: +7 / =5 / -1) (BPIP)



I have 11 snapshots of users on DT1 (ignoring internal exclusions). I think I'm only missing the very first DT1-distribution (right when this topic was created, I wasn't on DT1 back then).
If someone's interested, these are all the users who've been on DT1 in the past 10 months (and the coming 1 month). The number in front of each name shows how many months they were on DT1 (again: they could have been excluded within DT1):
Code:
     1 Timelord2067
Only 20 users haven't ever lost the DT1-lottery (yet).



Or this:


Do's and Don'ts
  • It's okay to include your alt-account on your own Trust list. This means you trust the feedback you left from that account. Example:
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    hilariousandco Trusts these users' judgement:
    7. hilariousetc (Trust: +3 / =1 / -0) (1725 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
  • Don't include your main account from your alt account(s). This could influence DT1-voting, and although that's not part of this guide, it's bad.



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T:355846 Yahoo

P:37522 - Tomatocage
P:51908 - Blazr
P:133846 - monbux

P:109881 - goose20
P:343899 -     BiPolarBob
P:101763 - xetsr
legendary
Activity: 1582
Merit: 1059
nutildah-III / NFT2021-04-01
Follow me, mate, whenever you're in the mood for a daily portion of cynicism and bitterness. Further on, just another impressive move, LoyceV. Well done!
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Instead of having your script update a file on your server, your script would make an API call whenever a trigger is hit
I agree it would be cool addition, but I really don't have the time to figure it all out now. I (still) have other things on my list that I've wanted to complete for a very long time but never got to.
copper member
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1901
Amazon Prime Member #7
any plans to link it to telegram or something?
No. I wouldn't know how to do that anyway.
Instead of having your script update a file on your server, your script would make an API call whenever a trigger is hit (someone creates a thread/post that you are 'watching'). Here is an article (by telegram) about telegram 'bots', and here is the telegram API documentation.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Following theymos' new topic didn't work. It turns out Admin has tricks: while the post/topic was created at 56:06 (MM:SS), my scraper only picked it up at 59:57 (this should have been within a few seconds).
I think theymos might have moved it from a hidden board to a public board, because the next post number was picked up by my scraper at 56:31 (as expected)).
So theymos' post must have been published a few minutes after being created, and by then it was no longer the newest topic, so my scraper assumed it was posted in an existing topic.

Theymos' topic is missing from my list-of-new-topics:
Code:
5204525
5204526
5204527
5204529
5204530
5204531

I'm not sure yet how to tackle this without doing additional scraping.
I now check if a topic is one of the 20 newest topics, this should allow for approximately 1 hour of "tricks".
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 4392
Be a bank
Code:
P:3
P:35
P:7811
P:10706
P:11425
P:24792
P:249495
P:290195
P:717141
P:976210
T:234771
T:459836

tyvm LoyceV you're a star
muh link https://loyce.club/follow/479624.html
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
any plans to link it to telegram or something?
No. I wouldn't know how to do that anyway.

I also remember several threads and posts were different members requested such an option in the past.
Now let's see if they're actually going to use it. So far only one tester, and not a single topic created by the users he's following.

I noticed a bug: I'm currently also creating "empty" follow pages for anyone who posts here without making a request. I'll fix that soon. Fixed.
legendary
Activity: 2730
Merit: 7065
Following back anyone who follows me 🤣 this week only!
The follower count should now be a condition to advance in ranking. Activity + Merits + # of Followers

@LoyceV
Great idea creating this! I also remember several threads and posts were different members requested such an option in the past.
copper member
Activity: 2856
Merit: 3071
https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory
Following back anyone who follows me 🤣 this week only! (they do this on all other social media).

Nice bot, any plans to link it to telegram or something?
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
Off topic, but can you do this, @LoyceV?
Question:

Can I choose to sort my topics chronological in descending or ascending orders?
Code:
https://bitcointalk.org/gettopics.php?user=1292764;sort=gettopics,desc/asc
or
https://bitcointalk.org/gettopics.php?user=1292764;sort=gettopics,first/last
I tried and could not get it done.

For me, now it is not a problem because I have not made too many threads.
For others who've made so many threads, it will help them to save time when searching through their topic history.
copper member
Activity: 2338
Merit: 4543
Join the world-leading crypto sportsbook NOW!
Code:
T:35
T:234771
T:459836
P:3
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
Follow users on Bitcontalk (posts and/or topics)

Why
I've seen the idea several times now, so I decided to create something. The last user who requested a feature to follow users was SM23031997, I don't remember who suggested it first.

How to use it
Post the userIDs of the users you want to follow in this topic, inside code-tags. Start with "P:" to follow their posts, and/or "T:" to follow their topics.
Your followed user list will show up on https://loyce.club/follow/youruserID.html (you'll have to wait up to an hour for the first update).

Example
Code:
P:3
T:35
In English: I want to know when satoshi makes a post, and when theymos creates a new topic.
The results can be found here: loyce.club/follow/459836.html (for convenience, you can add your own link right under your code-tags).

Result
      Image loading...

All followers
See loyce.club/follow/

Updates
Every hour (I may change this later depending on the number of users).

Restrictions
  • If someone else follows the same user already, you get retroactive results. Otherwise only new posts are shown.
  • If you follow "posts", that includes "topics" started by the same user too.
  • History is kept for 7 days.
  • I'm not scraping post-titles, only topic-titles.
  • I won't register title changes (due to caching)
  • If you remove your post in this topic, your updates end (but the file won't be removed).
  • To change who you follow, you can either edit your post, or create a new post in this topic

Notifications
If you want notifications, you can use a third party tool such as Visualping.

Be nice
Don't try to abuse this. I don't want to make a blacklist, but I will if I have to.

If something breaks, please post here.

Please test/use this Cheesy



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