So, plainly, my questions are what know-how do I need to make one and if I ultimately can make one, how do I integrate it into a platform? E.g how did the pipedbot link I got to see, get integrated into lemmy in the comments section?

So, I just discovered something called piped because a lemmy bot linked a YouTube video to it. My familiarity with privacy and FOSS is a bit naïve, but I’d like to build more on it. I’ve seen similar bots when I was on reddit, ones that would give links to a mentioned song, or the moderator ones (I’m assuming the AutoMod thing is a bot too).

Could someone possibly walk me through how to make one? This might be irrelevant/relevant info: I’m familiar with knowledge graphs, SPARQL, a tiny tiny tiny bit of SQL, python and R (mostly because of school).

Also, apart from links, moderation, and chats on customer service websites, where would a non-techy apply it? Even if it’s just for personal use.

I know I could duckgogo this, but I prefer dynamic walkthroughs/explanations I can get here.

  • @flakeshake
    3•1 year ago

    I second Python. Probably the easiest full-fledged general-purpose programming language to learn. Plenty of reddit bots used to be written in Python. The “praw” module used to make it very easy. I’m sure pythorhead has similiar ambitions. In regard to the question: I have heard good things about “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” (no, i am not affliated with either author or publisher) : Link