I made a comment bot to help search previous voat posts (pizzagate)

submitted ago by throwaway89209834

Long story short, I tried to get a voat API key but they don't seem to be available so yesterday I hacked my own wrapper together for a voat bot that watches new posts on a subverse, scrapes links from the OP, uses google to search the subverse for posts that contain that link and posts a comment with link to that post if its found. I will be running it manually till I feel comfortable to let it loose to run on its own.

https://voat.co/v/test/1674303

https://voat.co/user/PizzagateBot/comments

I still need to normalize the link output better and I need to put in some error handling and I'm sure there will be some edge case stuff that will break it and need to be fixed. In any case, If you have any feedback on how to improve it or if you find a bad link, something wrong, or even an idea for other type of benevolent bots, let me know.

If you click one of the links be sure to upvoat the bot account.

Cheers!

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wecanhelp ago

Thank you for the work. Two tiny suggestions:

  • It would be useful if the comment only contained results from the same subverse. I can't tell if that's the case currently, but if it is then the | pizzagate part at the end of each link is redundant.
  • It would be even more useful if the links were ordered by upvote, and there was a label indicating the upvote/downvote count after each link like this: (+50|-1). That way users would know if a link is worth clicking.

throwaway89209834 ago

the | pizzagate part at the end of each link is redundant.

Yeah, it grabs the title, same as you see in your browser bar title, so its always there. I just added a line to strip it out, thanks.

It would be even more useful if the links were ordered by upvote, and there was a label indicating the upvote/downvote count after each link like this: (+50|-1). That way users would know if a link is worth clicking.

Good idea, I was thinking of trying to format it into a table with date and which link it was related to, i can add up/down voat count too.

wecanhelp ago

I just added a line to strip it out, thanks.

Appreciated!

I was thinking of trying to format it into a table with date and which link it was related to, i can add up/down voat count too.

Thanks, date is also a good idea if you can fit all that information into a single table.