TXPromoter

Uses free resources of your node in a useful way by promoting/reattaching non zero transactions.

If anyone is up for creating a proper setup.py or requirements feel free to do that via PR!

Prerequisites

• access to a node (iri 1.4.1.6+). You have two options:
  • node with pow and remote api enabled (need to change api init to that host)
  • own node where this script can run locally
• valid python installation that can run this script including:
  • install current PyOTA 2.0.4 (https://github.com/iotaledger/iota.lib.py/releases/tag/2.0.4)
    • pip install pyota
  • install current PyOTA-CCurl 1.0.9 (https://github.com/todofixthis/pyota-ccurl/releases/tag/1.0.9) to make it even faster! (optional but strongly recommended)
    • pip install pyota[ccurl]
  • install using requirements.txt file
    • pip install -r requirements.txt

How to use

• download the script with curl:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisoro/TXPromoter/master/promoter.py

• just start the script:
  • python promoter.py Without any argument the script will autopromote tips from your localhost. This will run indefinitely.
  • python promoter.py -tx {TXID} With tx id to promote the specific transaction until it's confirmed (or a max of 3h is reached). The script will exit then.

Running as a service

You can use node process manager to run promoter as a service.

# Install the process manager:
npm install pm2 -g

# Make pm2 start at startup:
pm2 startup

# Start the promoter as service (make sure you are within the same directory as promoter.py!)
pm2 start promoter

# Save current processes runing with pm2 to startup on boot:
pm2 save

# Get logs:
pm2 logs promoter