I’m a moderator in one of the Lemmy communities and want to set up a bot to post a message every day. I only found this; is that the best way? I’m a developer, so I’m confident I can set it up on a locally hosted server, but then other moderators won’t be able to edit it. Is there a better way to do this?
Is this for a single community? Maybe you can host a simple password-protected site where the moderators can modify the message.
@fossilesque@mander.xyz is developing a plant id bot for !plantid@mander.xyz, perhaps they can explain to you how they are doing that.
Yeah it’s for a single community, stopdrinking. It’s for the daily check in post.
Yeah, happy to share the code. It’s python + docker. You’ll probably be able to just simply it!
I’d love to take a peek as well if you don’t mind.
I haven’t used it, but lemmybot or or the lower-level https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client, which is a pure client with no bot features are what I’m aware of.
I’d make sure to evaluate the API changes planned for v18 of Lemmy though. There’s a major shift away from the websockets API that’s about to land, and it’s quite possible that you’d build a bot to find out it’s broken a week later and needs to be adapted for a totally different API.
