What bots would you like to see?

3 years ago by Rikudou_Sage to c/asklemmy

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 18 points 3 years ago

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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rikudou 3 points 3 years ago

The metric <-> imperial seems like something I'd have fun doing!

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metic 2 points 3 years ago

In a similar vein, a bot that links to a timezone converter.

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gravistar 6 points 3 years ago

One that inserts a comment randomly about jumper cables or the lochness monster

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vanillabear 8 points 3 years ago

Maybe the remindme bot

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rikudou 5 points 3 years ago

Was thinking about that but it's often considered annoying, so I thought I'd ask first.

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AToM_exe 3 points 3 years ago

I liked the summarize bot. That one was actually contributing to conversations.

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rikudou 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, that one was definitely nice!

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Bjoern_Tantau 2 points 3 years ago

I would rather have Lemmy get the ability to follow a comment or post. That's mostly what it had been used for.

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Lifecoach5000 3 points 3 years ago

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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willowisp_42 2 points 3 years ago

Didn't see this one coming. Good job sir

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gravistar 2 points 3 years ago

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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Lifecoach5000 1 point 3 years ago

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XpeeN 4 points 3 years ago

AutoModbot, autotldr, remindme, top posts And lemmy URL fixer (transform regular lemmy link to federated one e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/memes to !memes@lemmy.world).

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rikudou 2 points 3 years ago

Those are good ideas!

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rikudou 2 points 3 years ago

Lemmy URL fixer is done! Example: https://lemmings.world/c/lemmings_world_instance

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CommunityLinkFixer 2 points 3 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lemmings_world_instance@lemmings.world

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XpeeN 1 point 3 years ago

Well done! Much needed. How it summon itself?

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rikudou 2 points 3 years ago

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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thegiddystitcher 1 point 3 years 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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rikudou 1 point 3 years ago

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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thegiddystitcher 1 point 3 years ago

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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rikudou 1 point 3 years ago

@autotldr@lemmings.world is live now!

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XpeeN 1 point 3 years ago

Is it possible to make it comment on a specific post? Mention in does nothing

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rikudou 1 point 3 years ago

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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XpeeN 1 point 3 years ago

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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decadentrebel 3 points 3 years ago

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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rikudou 1 point 3 years ago

Not sure if there's one, but it doesn't seem hard at all.

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rikudou 1 point 3 years ago

Hi there! I made an app that allows you to schedule posts: https://schedule.lemmings.world

Not a bot, but still should help a bit. You can also pin/unpin a post using the scheduler.

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XpeeN 2 points 3 years ago

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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Crackhappy 2 points 3 years ago

None. None of them.

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metic 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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mutilated_sphincter 1 point 3 years ago

u/WanderingDwarfMiner, rock and stone!