I'd like to try my hand at creating the Lemmy equivalent of the booknaut bot from Reddit. Interested? I've already reached out to booknaut for tacit permission to query from the bot, and they've approved. But you're the mod, so ;)

[–] Zamboniman 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Absolutely I'm interested!

I'm actually on vacation now and only have sporadic internet connectivity out here in the middle of nowhere, but let me know the details and when I return I'd be more than happy to work on setting this up.

[–] troyunrau 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, I need to write the damned bot first. Might be a few weeks ;)

The easiest thing to do is to replicate the booknaut-bot functionality from reddit ... where you put a title in curly brackets, like {Cyteen} and it'll automatically query, link, etc. But, it might be interesting to do something more advanced with it, like try to detect all references to books automatically, across a post and all its comments, and keep the replies in a single comment. A good example is the decronym bot which lives on the Space related subreddits. I'll have to think about that one though - might be harder to implement without bombarding the booknaut website with queries.

[–] Zamboniman 1 points 2 years ago

Well, I need to write the damned bot first. Might be a few weeks ;)

No worries.

The easiest thing to do is to replicate the booknaut-bot functionality from reddit … where you put a title in curly brackets, like {Cyteen} and it’ll automatically query, link, etc.

Agreed. It's familiar to those who have used it and is a simple enough format for new folks to easily see how it works.

But, it might be interesting to do something more advanced with it, like try to detect all references to books automatically, across a post and all its comments, and keep the replies in a single comment. A good example is the decronym bot which lives on the Space related subreddits. I’ll have to think about that one though - might be harder to implement without bombarding the booknaut website with queries.

Hmm, this does sound interesting. I wonder how many queries this would entail.