META: Introducing the NBA Game Day Bot

rezz, 10 months ago

So all game threads and post game are automatic, or we need to send a commend to the bot to prompt one?

Barns, 10 months ago

all the threads are automatic, the Bot just keeps running all the time and updates them

afoutopatisa, 10 months ago

Amazing!

Suggesting: Create a twitter bot that posts Woj/Charania tweets with >10K likes

Barns, 10 months ago

I’ve thought about it but there are two issues - one is that Twitter (Elon…) just locked their API so the bot would need to use some hack to scrape the twitter pages (not impossible though). The other is that like you said, we don’t want to post every Woj/Shams tweet but by the time the important ones reach 10k likes (or a similar filter), someone probably would post them here already so we’d be posting stake tweets…

not sure I have a solution for the 2nd problem, happy to hear opinions :)

afoutopatisa, 10 months ago

Thank you for the explanation! Regarding the double-posting problem, I think that a check if tweet is already posted should be enough in most cases.

decadentrebel, 10 months ago

Great work! What bot is this, though? Could use one to post a daily thread on our community.

Barns, 10 months ago

👍

I’m working on open sourcing it as we speak, and already added support for a single team so it should be ready in a few days

TheloniusFuegoRhymes, 10 months ago

This is so sick! Thanks guys

naneek, 10 months ago

There must be an incorrect loop condition as the bot is currently spamming /c/nba every 2 mins with a new pinned post.

Please fix and clean out the old posts!!

v_krishna, 10 months ago

It stopped doing it but please delete the posts it makes a bunch of sort views unusable if you are subscribed to this community

pobautista, 10 months ago

This is great stuff, and much needed with the growing community. Awesome work!

whoopThereItIs, 10 months ago

This is great! Thank you mods!!

death916, 10 months ago

Is it open source. Id love to add it to !sacramentokings

Barns, 10 months ago

not yet but it’s high on my list so stay tuned. I first need to clean out all the summer league hacks I made since the nba api library I use (github.com/swar/nba_api) didn’t support it… then a bit of tidying up and we should be good to go.

Jackolantern, 10 months ago

Now we just need an NBAcirclejerk community here to complete the yin and yang…

Darren, 10 months ago

Thanks to everyone who put this together. I’m sure it was a lot of hard work, but I think I can speak for the majority of the community that this is something that is extremely valuable to fostering growth over time.

aquarisces, 10 months ago

Love to see how this community is developing - great work team!

Vlhacs, 10 months ago

Awesome, hope to see lemmy-based NBA communities become more like /r/NBA. This definitely helps build and starts more conversation everyday

vodkasolution, 10 months ago

Love to read that!

Terasuske, 10 months ago

Wow this is nice! Can the comments be sorted by live where the comments are updated real time without refreshing?

Barns, 10 months ago

That would be Lemmy functionality, not the bot’s, and I believe that’s currently not possible since Lemmy removed web sockets so the servers can’t “push” updates to the website in real time. You may remember that even on reddit it was an external site that was built to overcome the same limit…

Terasuske, 10 months ago

I didnt know about that in Reddit. Is it because of security concerns? Would be nice to sort it out by live or something like slow mode

Barns, 10 months ago

not security related but it creates additional load on the system. We can eventually look into building something similar.

spacedancer, 10 months ago

Awesome! Can’t wait for this community to overtake r/nba. Great work, and thanks!