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Can we write lemmy bots? (lemmy.ml)
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I wrote a few useful utility bots back in the old days when reddit was a thing.

I just remembered them now, thinking it'd be useful to write a new one to help some of our art communities. (More on that latet)

Is there a bot framework, or similar for lemmy? Some docs? Some boilerplate code maybe? Just something I can sink into and learn.

Thanks so much

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. See https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/04-api.html for general usage and https://github.com/db0/pythorhead for a library (written in Python).

Edit: See also: https://lemm.ee/c/lemmydev and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/lemmy_integrations

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. There are a few bots out there. And I found writing one pretty simple. I wrote this wikibot a while back in Rust: https://codeberg.org/asudox/lemmy-wikibot-rs

Though the code sucked ass. Anyways, I am currently making an automoderation bot for Lemmy. You might struggle to find good documentation for the API though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The documentation will get much better with 1.0

https://join-lemmy.org/api/main