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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: warweed on January 28, 2012, 09:35 am

Title: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 28, 2012, 09:35 am
http://warweedoeg6lfyoz.onion/updown/
Bookmark me - I will be helpful in the future :)


Because tor browser bundle and such does not allow javascript i had to resort to old skool meta refresh which refreshes the page every 130 seconds my bot in the background checks to see if SR is up or down every 120 seconds and the edits the index.htm :) tis rather simple but rather then people always asking figure i would write this and settle it the fact that it auto refreshes just means leave the tab open or what have you and you will see UP or DOWN in the title :)

cheers,
-warweed

Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: psilocin on January 28, 2012, 10:12 am
Great job warweed,
I  was just about to write "hey it doesn't work, it says its UP, but its actually DOWN" , but just after second SR loaded :)

godspeed,
psilocin
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 28, 2012, 10:19 am
Lol if it says up and you can't load it that means your node is dead ;) i won't explain entirely how my system works but my system always maintains a steady tor connections and it was tested and actually used during the SR outage :) and i was back on SR within seconds :) I'm going to mod the bot up a bit to increase some of the wait times when it say silkroad is up and decrease it a bit for when it says silkroad is down no need to hammer SR if it's up :P

 
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Torn on January 28, 2012, 11:22 am
whereas I was just doing wget through tor's socks proxy.... but to my credit I was doing it all from my iphone.
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Silpheed on January 28, 2012, 12:24 pm
Thanks a lot for that tool warweed!

There is also this site I've found which checks if any .onion site is down or not:
http://zw3crggtadila2sg.onion/downornot/

To check if Silk Road is up or down would be:
http://zw3crggtadila2sg.onion/downornot/index.php?url=http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Leech on January 28, 2012, 02:51 pm
Cool you even got your own domain name.
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 29, 2012, 01:34 am
Thanks a lot for that tool warweed!

There is also this site I've found which checks if any .onion site is down or not:
http://zw3crggtadila2sg.onion/downornot/

To check if Silk Road is up or down would be:
http://zw3crggtadila2sg.onion/downornot/index.php?url=http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/

That just tells you if the server is up ;) mine will actually tell you if silkroad is up and your able to login for instance if it goes down and the maintenance flag is active :) mine also auto refreshes to give you status reports :)

and just changed the title of the tab up or down for ease :)
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Laughing Man on January 29, 2012, 02:14 am
Comic sans?
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: purpletiger on January 29, 2012, 02:45 am
Warweed rocks.  You are......The Botman!  Seriously thanks.
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Silpheed on January 29, 2012, 03:48 pm
That just tells you if the server is up ;) mine will actually tell you if silkroad is up and your able to login for instance if it goes down and the maintenance flag is active :) mine also auto refreshes to give you status reports :)

and just changed the title of the tab up or down for ease :)

Good to know! Thanks for all your work on this.
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 29, 2012, 11:31 pm
no worries figured some one might use it i was getting sick of reading is SR down in the chat channel lol

and here sad thing is by the time i was done writing it within 2 min it was back up lol but it still worked :D
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: mseller on January 29, 2012, 11:48 pm
Hey
can you write a bot who would work instead of me? Packaging, printing labels, replaying pm etc etc.
I really need it...  ;)
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 30, 2012, 04:29 am
Hey
can you write a bot who would work instead of me? Packaging, printing labels, replaying pm etc etc.
I really need it...  ;)

thats what my bot does ;)

i plan to make one to facilitate the helping of real goods vending
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Silpheed on January 30, 2012, 08:30 am
Hey
can you write a bot who would work instead of me? Packaging, printing labels, replaying pm etc etc.
I really need it...  ;)

thats what my bot does ;)

i plan to make one to facilitate the helping of real goods vending

On a related note, there might be a big demand for software that vendors can use to list tons of items, like an eBay Turbo Lister or Power Lister. (Although I suppose it could also be abused and used by scammers).
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: BenJesuit on January 30, 2012, 12:30 pm
Wow, nicely done Warweed. You're a trust asset to the community. :)
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Christy Nugs on January 30, 2012, 11:32 pm
Nice !!
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Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 31, 2012, 12:04 am
Hey
can you write a bot who would work instead of me? Packaging, printing labels, replaying pm etc etc.
I really need it...  ;)

thats what my bot does ;)

i plan to make one to facilitate the helping of real goods vending

On a related note, there might be a big demand for software that vendors can use to list tons of items, like an eBay Turbo Lister or Power Lister. (Although I suppose it could also be abused and used by scammers).

already being worked on i have it setup for me but working on ways to scale it to other vendors
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: RosaLeeMcFall on January 31, 2012, 12:32 am
Nice, thank you! Warweed never fails to come through!
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: Oz on January 31, 2012, 01:22 am
GJ warweed, nice little tool to have, especially recently.
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 31, 2012, 01:30 am
Yeah it seems alot of people are having connection issues atm perhaps if any of you are try using bridge relaying in tor
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: arutha on January 31, 2012, 06:48 am
Thanks warweed!

So if your program says it is up, but the page isn't loading... Does that mean you need to use a new identity?
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on January 31, 2012, 08:49 am
yes another alternative is bridged relays

the issue is alot of exit nodes are blocking sr and in light of forbes and gawker it would not surprise me if sr got a shit ton of traffic and both your isp was blocking your node and if your node was block access to sr
Title: Re: Is SR up or down - bot i wrote that will tell you :D so you don't have to
Post by: warweed on February 01, 2012, 05:17 am
bump