[TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+) - page 14.

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Quote from: TryNinja on August 01, 2023, 09:53:03 AM

Just to make sure, you received a notification for X merits correctly and the next day you got that same notification again?

Yes. You got it correctly. I received a notification for X merits correctly and the same notification again. This thing happened before, and we adjusted it. I do not see any other reports here. Probably people do not care about it, or maybe they did not crosscheck whether they received the merits.

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I haven’t done anything… still on vacation.
Sorry for the issues, but please bear with me. Tongue

You shouldn't worry about it. But I am curious about how long your vacation is. Anyways, Enjoy your summer vacation!

TryNinja

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on July 31, 2023, 10:05:14 PM

Once again, I received a notification of merit that I received yesterday. This happened exactly 5:59 AM Local time here, which is 11:59 PM UTC. I checked the notification twice and then checked the forum. Then I realized it was a glitch notification that I had received twice, and my merit count was also affected.

Probably TryNinja started doing something? Or are you still on Vacation and have yet to buy a new laptop? We have to use the famous /setmerit command again.

Just to make sure, you received a notification for X merits correctly and the next day you got that same notification again?

I haven’t done anything… still on vacation.

Sorry for the issues, but please bear with me. Tongue

Learn Bitcoin

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Once again, I received a notification of merit that I received yesterday. This happened exactly 5:59 AM Local time here, which is 11:59 PM UTC. I checked the notification twice and then checked the forum. Then I realized it was a glitch notification that I had received twice, and my merit count was also affected.

Probably TryNinja started doing something? Or are you still on Vacation and have yet to buy a new laptop? We have to use the famous /setmerit command again.

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Quote from: UmerIdrees on July 28, 2023, 02:14:57 AM

I come to know about this bot and trying it for the first time. I found it very easy to configure and interactive too. My motive is to get a notification whenever anyone posts in the Pakistan local thread, i get a notification. I hope it will work that way.
Also, i have configured it for merits and mentions.

So, this is the first time you use this bot?. I don't know the reason why you didn't use this bot when it existed for quite some time already and I have been using it since. Since there's no board for Pakistan like the others but there's a board where there's a pinned thread for other countries that doesn't have their own official board in the forum. Actually, you can track the thread using the bot.

First, go to other languages/locations located near the bottom of the forum. Second, open the Pakistan thread and copy the link which is this, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pakistan-232519. Third, go to your telegram and open the bot. Fourth, type /menu or you can just click it then open tracked topics. Fifth, click the "Add New" and then it will ask you the url of the thread and paste the link.

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I come to know about this bot and trying it for the first time. I found it very easy to configure and interactive too. My motive is to get a notification whenever anyone posts in the Pakistan local thread, i get a notification. I hope it will work that way.
Also, i have configured it for merits and mentions.

TryNinja

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Activity: 2758

Merit: 6830

Quote from: LoyceV on July 20, 2023, 08:56:38 AM

Quote from: TryNinja on July 20, 2023, 05:17:09 AM

I could code something to manually check all profiles (last time I checked it was only 500+ users) and correct their merit count

It's still not perfect: the Merit count in a profile doesn't instantly update after receiving Merit. Testing this earned me a "Sorry, you have been blocked" from Cloudflare when using Shift-reload a couple of timse.

That’s right, but the idea was to check profiles at moments when no merit tx could be involved, so the count would probably be correct. Could even check twice (i.e another time after ~30 min) to make sure data is correct.

LoyceV

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Quote from: TryNinja on July 20, 2023, 05:17:09 AM

I could code something to manually check all profiles (last time I checked it was only 500+ users) and correct their merit count

It's still not perfect: the Merit count in a profile doesn't instantly update after receiving Merit. Testing this earned me a "Sorry, you have been blocked" from Cloudflare when using Shift-reload a couple of timse.

TryNinja

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Quote from: LoyceV on July 20, 2023, 04:15:25 AM

Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on July 19, 2023, 11:13:32 PM

BTW, many members are using the bot with incorrect merit counts due to a recent Cloudflare issue. Eitheir they did not notice, or they don't know how to fix it. Is there any chance you can fix it by bulk for all active users? TryNinja

That should be possible: I have all theymos' Merit data dumps, up until last Friday morning. Tomorrow morning it's updated again, and if TryNinja finds the cut-off in Recent merit, that should give the updated total of earned Merit for each user.
It gets a bit more complicated if you still need the airdropped Merit for each user though.

Or just ask the BPIP guys: Most earned merit seems to be correct.

I could code something to manually check all profiles (last time I checked it was only 500+ users) and correct their merit count, but I can’t do that right now as I’m still traveling very far away from home (in Japan) and have no laptop with me. Tongue

Unfortunately everyone will have to run the well known /setmerit command.

LoyceV

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Quote from: Learn Bitcoin on July 19, 2023, 11:13:32 PM

BTW, many members are using the bot with incorrect merit counts due to a recent Cloudflare issue. Eitheir they did not notice, or they don't know how to fix it. Is there any chance you can fix it by bulk for all active users? TryNinja

That should be possible: I have all theymos' Merit data dumps, up until last Friday morning. Tomorrow morning it's updated again, and if TryNinja finds the cut-off in Recent merit, that should give the updated total of earned Merit for each user.
It gets a bit more complicated if you still need the airdropped Merit for each user though.

Or just ask the BPIP guys: Most earned merit seems to be correct.

Learn Bitcoin

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Quote from: logfiles on July 19, 2023, 05:15:33 PM

It sometimes happens, but there is a solution.

In the message box of the notification bot, try entering this and hit send

Code:

/set merit 576

Solving an error with another error! Cheesy

His actual merit is 575 Wink

#justsayin

BTW, many members are using the bot with incorrect merit counts due to a recent Cloudflare issue. Eitheir they did not notice, or they don't know how to fix it. Is there any chance you can fix it by bulk for all active users? TryNinja

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Quote from: Crypto Library on July 19, 2023, 04:19:24 PM

Is anything wrong with my telegram bot? Or am I unaware of any event? Roll Eyes

It seems the total merit number is different on the bot from the forum numbers. 576merits on bot and 575merits on Forum.
Forum:

Bot:

It sometimes happens, but there is a solution.

In the message box of the notification bot, try entering this and hit send

Code:

/set merit 576

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Is anything wrong with my telegram bot? Or am I unaware of any event? Roll Eyes

It seems the total merit number is different on the bot from the forum numbers. 576merits on bot and 575merits on Forum.
Forum:

Bot:

Learn Bitcoin

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TryNinja seems to work on the telegram bot to improve it daily constantly. A few weeks ago, I noticed that each notification showed a new icon or emoji, whatever you say—different icons for merits and mentions. Yesterday I noticed another improvement.

Before this, we had to search for the posts that were deleted. Some users count their posts when they write posts for signature campaign requirements. I write more than 50 posts a week, so it's not for me. But, this will be useful for everyone.

Thanks, Ninja!

holydarkness

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I also confirm that everything works smoothly again. Got mention and merit notification as usual. The merit count continue from before the cloudflare incident happen, though, probably due to the reason stated by TryNinja, and that the total merit received during the down time is not registered by the bot. So people, you might want to manually reset the merit count.

Code:

/setmerit [number of your current merit]

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Quote from: TryNinja on July 11, 2023, 02:24:54 AM

Which notification you didn’t get? So far I haven’t gotten any more downtime alerts nor have missed anything on my end (afaik).

I tried mentioning myself but didn't get any notification that is why I thought still the bot is not able to scrape posts and give notification. But today I received notifications when someone else quoted my post(s).

LoyceV

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Quote from: fillippone on July 11, 2023, 02:29:39 AM

As I am not an über technical user, can you explain to me what is triggering this cloudflare impossible mode?

Cloudflare is used to stop DDOS attacks. See theymos' 2017 topic: Moving to Cloudflare. If the DDOS gets worse, Cloudfare starts more measures to stop it. TL;DR: without Cloudflare, the forum would be offline now.
From what I've seen, those measures include checking the browser before any page can be accessed. And since scrapers don't use a browser, they can't get through. I guess, to Cloudflare, a scraper looks a lot like the spam DDOS causes.

Quote from: NotATether on July 11, 2023, 08:16:46 AM

If your IP address belongs to a data center, expect to get blocked by Cloudflare, because datacenter IPs have a higher "threat score" which basically means a spammer is more likely to own one. It's only natural that this is the case, since most ISPs won't allow you to use a residential address as a hammer.

My home IP gets the same treatment as any server when I try to scrape a page:

Code:

ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Most DDOS attacks come from (infected) personal computers, and not necessarily from servers.

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Quote from: fillippone on July 11, 2023, 02:29:39 AM

As I am not an über technical user, can you explain to me what is triggering this cloudflare impossible mode? As I understand it is not forum related, so it is probably something else. Are other services hosted on cloudflare affected?

It has less to do with what user agent or scraping program or library you're using, and more to do with what IP address you have.

If your IP address belongs to a data center, expect to get blocked by Cloudflare, because datacenter IPs have a higher "threat score" which basically means a spammer is more likely to own one. It's only natural that this is the case, since most ISPs won't allow you to use a residential address as a hammer.

Quote from: fillippone on July 11, 2023, 02:29:39 AM

If it is a cloudflare issue, how can Theymos whitelist some IP’s?

Cloudflare has a console for each website that is connected to a Cloudflare account. I have one for my own site, for example.

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Quote from: TryNinja on July 11, 2023, 02:24:54 AM

Quote from: joker_josue on July 11, 2023, 01:46:11 AM

I also received some notifications, but not all.
The problem is intermittent. Sometimes the bots are able to gather the information, sometimes they are not.

The issue here is that bot creators can't do much more. So we really have to wait for the situation with Coludflare to be normalized.

Which notification you didn’t get? So far I haven’t gotten any more downtime alerts nor have missed anything on my end (afaik).

Maybe then it was me who didn't notice all the new entries. I apologize.
Anyway, thanks for your excellent work. Wink

Quote from: fillippone on July 11, 2023, 02:29:39 AM

If it is a cloudflare issue, how can Theymos whitelist some IP’s?

It is possible in Cloudflare to define several IPs that do not need to pass through your filters.

fillippone

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Thanks, @tryninja @LoyceV and all the other Bitcointalk.org ninja for all they are doing for the forum.
Your bots and scalers are assets for the forum and the majority of us, the users, do not realise that until something breaks (IT curse: “When it is running smoothly, nobody thanks you, when something breaks, you are the one to blame!).

As I am not an über technical user, can you explain to me what is triggering this cloudflare impossible mode? As I understand it is not forum related, so it is probably something else. Are other services hosted on cloudflare affected?

If it is a cloudflare issue, how can Theymos whitelist some IP’s?

LoyceV

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Merit: 16489

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Quote from: joker_josue on July 11, 2023, 01:46:11 AM

I also received some notifications, but not all.
The problem is intermittent. Sometimes the bots are able to gather the information, sometimes they are not.

I can't talk for TryNinja's bot, but my scraper hasn't missed a single post since theymos whitelisted it (yesterday evening).

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The issue here is that bot creators can't do much more. So we really have to wait for the situation with Coludflare to be normalized.

Cloudflare doesn't block the whitelisted bots anymore.

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