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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VieBleu ago
Nice thing to do, thanks!
If I have a thread I'd like the bot to work on from the past, do I have to repost it?
For example, this : https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1500755
throwaway89209834 ago
My bot ran out of points to post more today, but here is what it would of found. Google Search
VieBleu ago
thanx.