I’m thinking of looking at the Lemmy api and that’s best done when you have some actual problem to solve!

So, is there any bot that you’d like to see?

  • MolvanianDentist@lemmy.world
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    Some recollections from Reddit:

    A bot that links the top posts of all time for a community. Gives a good sense of the community’s greatest hits when referenced in discussions.

    A bot that converts imperial to metric units or vice versa. Some people do find this one annoying, but as a metric user, this one helps me understand miles and pounds, etc.

    A bot that summarises or pulls the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article.

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      It’s funny you mention that. My friend’s teenage son had made a bot for Reddit years ago when it was a new thing while he was in a summer program for computer science. The bot would post theater times for latest movie releases in local subreddits and it was considered a helpful bot by most. I got used to relying on it quite a bit - until one time I took the family to what I thought was a Lego movie, but we ended up seeing Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! My father had came with two of my 2nd cousins and he was disturbed to say the least. When we got home, my dad was so upset that he beat me unmercifully with a set of jumper cables to teach me a lesson - you shouldn’t expose the family to such nonsense he said. Needless to say I will never rely on online bots for movie times with my family again.

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        undefined> When we got home, my dad was so upset that he beat me unmercifully with a set of jumper cables to teach me a lesson - you shouldn’t expose the family to such nonsense he said. Needless to say I will never rely on online bots for movie times with my family again.

        LMAO you bastard!

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          Just write the URL and it should come. It does have to know about your community, though, not sure how exactly that works.

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        1 year ago

        Fyi this is calling out links made with the official autocomplete. I’ve blocked it but does that stop it from replying to me or just stop me from seeing the replies?

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          It stops it from replying to you. And the official autocomplete is weird, it produces wrong links and then replaces them on the fly with the correct ones.

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            Yeah I’m aware not all the app interfaces etc have caught up with the proper links yet. So I’ll just keep including the local ones manually for now to include the most people. Anyway cheers, I post a lot of links so as long as it’s not hassling me with false positives 😄

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          It probably doesn’t know about the community, or it doesn’t have support for the site. Can you link me to the post (either here, or in PM, it’s up to you).

          Edit: Probably found it, it doesn’t have any support for news.sky.com, shall I add it?

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            Thanks for your answer. idk about adding it, the article sounded interesting but idk how relayable this news site is and how much work it takes. I guess it’s up to you :)

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              Added it along with the ability to respond to mentions. Once it’s deployed, it should respond to your mention (hopefully, it was kinda huge overhaul of the code).

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                Worked on my mention :)

                Just throwing out an idea, feel free to ignore it XD

                I think that if one would write a quick “how to write a site handler” with a built-in template (like I’ve seen used), I’m sure many will contribute and send PRs for their favorite sites. If you’re interested of course. I don’t mind volunteer for doing the writeup either.

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                  If you feel up to it, I’ll gladly accept it! I’m planning on doing it myself, but I’m not sure when I’ll have the time.

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    My dumbass non-coder self would kill to have a bot that autoposts a thread every 12am daily. It’s hard to stay up that late just to make the daily thread, lmao.

    Or maybe there is one already?

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    Maybe a “good bod”, “bad bot” detection bot? I imagine a lot of people won’t actually report a problem on GitHub all time (some bots don’t even leave their source code in their comment), so this way you get a way to reports issues+get an example, or to see when it works fine.

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    AMPutator, RSS bot, timezone bot, a bot to provide a Reddit archive URL when someone posts a Reddit URL so we don’t have to send them traffic.