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Satisfied now! Big thanks to nanob0nus for providing the code!

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Man, can I help you somehow? I want to see the automated random markets.

So what I'd want to do is:

Goal: Have a market based on the idea of "reveal new information every hour".

Approach: I have a file data.txt, from which I reveal this information. Each hour, do a POST-request via the Manifold API to do a comment to the market containing the new information.

[Ideally, I'd edit the description, but the API doesn't support that. One could have a totally separate system for this thing, e.g. a website, but I'm unfortunately not yet a skilled enough programmer to do this.]

What I tried (unsuccessfully): I wrote a bash script containing a part

curl https://manifold.markets/api/v0/comment -X POST \

-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \

-H 'Authorization: Key 123456-blah-blah-blah' \

--data-raw '{"contractId":"iQMXhHXTOOnJ0J3SqvUY", "markdown":$STR}'

where STR is the thing I read from data.txt. However, doing this simply results in a comment reading "$STR" (see below). (Reading the file, sleeping for an hour, etc. seemed like something I am able to do, the issue is putting variables in the POST-request.)

I Googled a bit but couldn't quickly get around this. Also feeling like this whole "post a comment every hour" business is not the cleanest solution.

@Loppukilpailija Would you mind using python? Working with variables like STR is much more straight forward there. I just created this and it works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15MBmzgC0Jqf5aaZDWCf2ephqJb7szvvo/view?usp=drive_link

@nanob0nus If you cant get python to work I could also try to understand bash

@nanob0nus You can either schedule the comments manually with three lines of code per comment or read them from a file there with a loop

@nanob0nus Sure, any solution is fine, including Python. Note that the Drive file you linked needs permission to access it

@Loppukilpailija ups, changed it, should be accessible now.

No sugar. Guess I'll be updating my markets manually.

Not satisfied yet. What I would want to do is (roughly) to be able to read a file, post a comment with the first N characters of the file, N += 1, wait, repeat. I didn't succeed yet. I might look into it later on, but as of now the market would resolve NO.

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