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?

  • @PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    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.

    • @sylverstream@lemmy.nzOP
      1•1 year ago

      Thank you. How would you recommend to handle things like daily posts and giving all mods the ability to edit? Especially mods without programming experience?

      • retiolus
        1•1 year ago

        Please explain in detail how you would like the bot to work and what features it should have.

        One post a day. The same post every day? A default motd that you can edit but as long as you don’t change it, it publishes every day? Should the time be configurable? Etc…?

  • @CapillaryUpgradeEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    You could use gihtub/gitlab to host the code for the bot and allow editing that way?

    You could probably use their CI/CD infrastructure to run the bot itself, too!