Used to mine unicoins @ stackoverflow.com on April 1

stackoverflow_unicoin_miner.py

#!/bin/env python3

import re
import time
import requests

sleep_time = 10
needs_sleep = False

# Target-related
cookie_jar = {'usr': 't=xxxxxxxxxxx&s=xxxxxxxxxxxx'}  # change this only
mine_url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/unicoin/mine?rock='
new_rock_url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/unicoin/rock?_='
fkey_pattern = '<input id="fkey" name="fkey" type="hidden" value="([a-fA-F0-9]{32})">'

headers = \
{
    'Accept':'*/*',
    'Accept-Encoding':'gzip,deflate,sdch',
    'Accept-Language':'en-US,en;q=0.8,it;q=0.6,ru;q=0.4,tr;q=0.2',
    'Cache-Control':'no-cache',
    'Connection':'keep-alive',
    'Cookie': 'usr=' + cookie_jar['usr'] + '; gauthed=1;',
    'DNT':'1',
    'Host':'stackoverflow.com',
    'Pragma':'no-cache',
    'Referer':'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8306654/finding-all-possible-permutations-of-a-given-string-in-python',
    'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)',
    'X-Requested-With':'XMLHttpRequest'
}

# Let's rock
while 1:

    if needs_sleep:
        print("Sleeping for {}s".format(sleep_time))
        time.sleep(sleep_time)

    # Get a rock
    print("Requesting new rock ...")
    timestamp = str(int(time.time()))

    try:
        new_rock = requests.get(new_rock_url + timestamp, headers=headers)
        new_rock_id = new_rock.json().get('rock')
        print("Fetched rock {}".format(new_rock_id))
    except:
        print("Couldn't even fetch a new rock - probably needs another cookie. Quit.")
        exit(1)

    # Fetch an 'fkey'
    fkey_raw = re.search(fkey_pattern, new_rock.text, flags=re.M)
    fkey = fkey_raw.group(1)

    payload = \
        {
            'fkey': fkey
        }

    # Request mining verification
    print("Requesting mining proof of {} ...".format(new_rock_id))
    headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

    try:
        mine_request = requests.post(mine_url + new_rock_id, data=payload, cookies=cookie_jar)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Couldn't make a request. Error was: {}".format(e))
        continue

    # Get the resulting JSON
    try:
        mining_result = mine_request.json().get('result')
        mining_value = mine_request.json().get('value')
    except Exception as e:
        print("Something was uncool. Will try again.")
        needs_sleep = True
        continue

    if mining_result == "Success":
        print("Mining done, value was {}".format(mining_value))
        needs_sleep = True
    else:
        print("Mining {} failed".format(new_rock_id))
        needs_sleep = False

exit(0)