Utbot is a simple tool to watch and react to activity on Steem blockchain through special commands written in a comment/post. Its purpose is to gather information about Utopian.io Task Requests and send a message to Discord server in a standardized way.

Note: The bot currently doesn't validate the parameters. The caller is responsible for calling it with a valid values.

Requirements:

• Python 3.6

Installation steps:

Utbot is not distributed in PyPi at the moment but you can install it locally.

python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
(venv) python install -e .

You need to set keys to a Steem account and a Discord webhooks URLs. You can set them either in a ./utbot/config.json file or as an environment variables. You can also use .env file to keep your environment variables.

UT_PK= bot private posting key
UT_ACCOUNT= bot steem account
UT_WH_TASKS= discor webhook url
UT_WH_CONTRS= discord webhook url

This section takes the default prefix ! and bot_name utbot to show some examples of the commands and parameters.

!utbot help

A bot will respond with a short message that will navigate you to bot's potential commands.

Utbot handles a few of different parameters format. The intention was to allow to use inline format and also accept a format where each parameter is written on a separate line.

!utbot --status open --bounty 10 SBD --description "Short description of the task" --skills "Python, Flask, Steem" --deadline 2018-01-01 --discord <@351997733646761985>

!utbot
status: open
bounty: 10 SBD
description: "Short description of the task"
skills: "Python, Flask, Steem"
deadline: 2018-01-01
discord: <@351997733646761985>

You can obtain the Discord user ID by submitting \@usermention in a channel they are in or you can right click on a user's avatar and copy the ID after enabling developers tools.

• Implement webhook for contributions
  • add contribution when reviewed
  • include basic information about the contribution
• Add "new, update, remove" kind of commands to the bot
• Tests
• (Semi-)automatically submit a task message when reviewed but the reviewer did not call the bot