I’ve just had this idea. Why don’t we create a bot that scans comments and replies to them with boardgamegeek links for every game found in the comment?
To simplify the implementation Inwould be favourable to introduce some sort of syntax to make unambiguous whether or not some words are a game name or not.
What do you think about this idea?
On reddit, several video game subreddits had the relevant names in brackets, which got parsed and linked to a wiki,…
E.g. Hey, if you want to get [Ability] you have to talk to [Person] at [Place] and fulfill their quest line. Also you’d need to pay 5 [Ressource]
Depending on the search function of BGG, one might even link to categories, mechanisms,…
This is even better than what I was thinking. I wonder if Lemmy APIs allows it tho.
I am not opposed to the idea. If you need my support as the mod, please feel free to reach out
Good to know that you’re not contrary, however, I just wanted to bring an idea to the attention of the community. Right now I have neither the time nor the knowledge to do such a thing.
I guess the entire foundation thing is taking its toll.
But if there is someone willing to make such a mod, I am all for helping where I can.
Do you have an example or a link to a git repo?
I remember u/spirescan-bot for r/slaythespire. It uses double braces, b7t works this way.
Here’s a random old post from the bot about new features where users are testing these: https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/comments/d8t92r/new_bot_features/
The bot comments don’t link to its source, but searching the bot username on Google leads to this repository, that looks good at afirst glance. Seems to be a python bot and the source code contains the URL of the Slay The Spire Wiki: https://github.com/painebenjamin/spirescanbot