#!/usr/bin/python # # Auto-following/reading bot written in Python 2 that has a mission to safe distributed data shared in the twister network # (https://github.com/twisterarmy/twister-data-guard) # This script based on the official usernameCrawler # (https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core/blob/master/contrib/usernameCrawler.py) # # Downloaded data is cached in a python pickle file, so it may be executed # again and it won't need to get everything all over again (you may run it # from cron scripts, for example) import sys, cPickle dbFileName = "twisterDataGuard.pickle" nodeUserName = "twisterdataguard" blocksInStep = 10 class MyDb: lastBlockHash = 0 dataLock = False try: from bitcoinrpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy except ImportError as exc: sys.stderr.write("Error: install python-bitcoinrpc (https://github.com/jgarzik/python-bitcoinrpc)\n") exit(-1) serverUrl = "http://user:pwd@127.0.0.1:28332" if len(sys.argv) > 1: serverUrl = sys.argv[1] twister = AuthServiceProxy(serverUrl) try: db = cPickle.load(open(dbFileName)) nextHash = db.lastBlockHash dataLock = db.dataLock except: db = MyDb() nextHash = twister.getblockhash(0) dataLock = db.dataLock if not dataLock: db.dataLock = True cPickle.dump(db, open(dbFileName, "w")) print "blockchain reading..." while True: block = twister.getblock(nextHash) db.lastBlockHash = block["hash"] blocksInStep = blocksInStep - 1 if blocksInStep < 0: db.dataLock = False break print "read block", str(block["height"])# + "\r", for u in block["usernames"]: print "follow", u twister.follow(nodeUserName, [u]) if block.has_key("nextblockhash"): nextHash = block["nextblockhash"] else: break cPickle.dump(db, open(dbFileName, "w")) print "task completed." else: print "operation locked by the running process."