Automating some of the accounting for Filecoin Mining
This is currently being developed for a specific purpose to scrape, colate and log information about specific filecoin wallets and then automatically push journals into the Xero accounting system.
Although this is a very specific usecase, you can feel free to use the code as you like, I am not liable for any use of it.
To use it as it stands you will need a filecoin mining setup and a Xero accounting login (basic or free will work). If you don't have Xero or dont want to use it, you can simply output to a file to get similar information for tax purposes etc. Again, I am not liable for this code or any of the information you get from using it. Please seek professional tax advice.
If you do use and modify it to add exta connections feel free to submit a pull request, there is not many tools for automated accounting in the crypto world so it would be cool to build this beyond Xero and perhaps beyond Filecoin. Sorry, you cannot use my Filecoin miner or Xero accounts for testing and you will not find any keys in the repo. Pull requests with any keys or private info will not be accepted.
note these are incomplete notes for now
Create the folders if the git repo didn't already do it
mkdir archive
mkdir archive/messages
mkdir archive/blocks
Copy the Secrets.py_Example to Secrets.py and fill in api keys if you want to use Xero
Copy the Addresses.py_Example to Addresses.py and fill in your wallets (note that these are never shared on Git or by the code)
Install dependencies (install the xero one even if you don't want to use xero, it has some handy journal structures internally)
python -m pip install xero_python
python -m pip install requests
Realistically, you're probably here just to scrape some Filecoin transactions from your miner and associated wallets. You can just use the scraper module as below:
Notes:
Dates must be entered in the form yyyy-mm-dd
use -t if you want transactions or use -b if you want blocks instead (only applies to miner addresses).
FilfoxScraper.py -t -s <start_date> -e <end_date> -f <filename.csv> -w <wallet_address>