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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cakeoflightylight ago
OK I think I get it, and this is amazing. Can you explain how we are supposed to use this? We just visit a thread and watch for the bot to comment?
throwaway89209834 ago
You don't need to do anything. It watches https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/new posts and if it finds any related links it will make a comment. Once I'm satisfied with its stability I'll set it to automatically check for new posts every few minutes and it will keep doing this without intervention.
cakeoflightylight ago
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