CommentGathering-MillionaireMakers

Hello! If you're here you're probably looking to validate the results of a draw or perform a draw yourself. Please read through the following sections before doing so though!

Dependencies

• Python >=3.5
• The PRAW package (pip3 install praw)
• The tqdm package (pip3 install tqdm)

Configuration

meta.json

• threads: Link to the drawing thread(s), if multiple, add a new set of {}!
• CID_Filename: The filename of the comment ID file
• Dateline: The maximum creation time of a user's account in epoch time. Everything younger will end up in DQ-Age. Set to -1, or the future to disable this check.
• Duplicate Action: DQ: Delete all duplicate authors' comments or FirstOnly: Delete all but first comment
• WinnerFromFile: Which comment list to draw from - Truncated or Original
• DrawTime: Time the draw starts in epoch time. Starts counting blocks from this time
• WaitTillBlock: The n-th block which will be the "winning block". Default: 3
• Win_Hash: Hash of the winning block. Auto-filled via API if blank. If present, will be used by getWinner.

Everything else should fill up automatically after running the scripts!

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auth.json

Obtain client id and secret from here. User agent can be anything.

Scripts

(In order of which they should be run)

• main - Launcher for the other scripts, also checks dependencies.
• getComments - Gets comments from threads specified and saves to meta.json/CID_Filename file.
• dupeCmtCheck - Checks comment IDs for duplicates.
• getAuthors - Gets author usernames based on the comments collected. Users who deleted their comments will show up as 'Null'. Also generates DQ-Age.txt, which contains usernames of accounts which were created after meta.json/dateline.
• removeInvalid - Removes comments associated with 'Null', 'NULL*' or DQ-Age.txt users.
  Users who double post either have all their comments deleted, or only have their first one remain
• getWinner - Gets the winner of the draw. If run before draw, will wait until meta.json/DrawTime and then wait for the winning block to be mined. Once mined, the winner will be displayed and saved to meta.json.

As a time-saving measure (specifically for large threads), getComments and getAuthors will both ask if you are 'Updating' the existing comment list when launched:

• Responding Y/y will only update entries in the comment list that require updating, such as a new comment, or a comment without an associated author;
• Otherwise, the scripts will start from scratch and overwrite any and all previous data.

Verifying past draws

Please do take note that the comments and/or user account statuses may have changed since the draw. This could be due to users deleting comments or their account.

As such, getComments and getAuthors will probably return a different list of IDs. Only the other scripts may be run with the provided ID, author and DQ lists; These should return the same results.

Also, the files are (mostly) made in Linux, so if you're using another OS, the newline character may differ, resulting in a hashsum mismatch.