V4ubanShould we start crossposting content from Reddit?
I developed a bot for this purpose, it only crossposts links to external websites like news, it's being used in a couple of communities that need a little push with content.
It only crosspost 1 post every hour to each community to avoid spamming and it can handle multiple subreddits at the same time.
That's how I think it should be done, so far, users engage with the posts made by the bot in an organic way.
If you want to check it out: https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt
I'm open to suggestions :)
It only crosspost 1 post every hour to each community to avoid spamming and it can handle multiple subreddits at the same time.
That's how I think it should be done, so far, users engage with the posts made by the bot in an organic way.
If you want to check it out: https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt
I'm open to suggestions :)
GitHub - daniel-lxs/BotIt: A bot that scrapes posts from an specific subreddit and posts it on a kbin magazine.
A bot that scrapes posts from an specific subreddit and posts it on a kbin magazine. - GitHub - daniel-lxs/BotIt: A bot that scrapes posts from an specific subreddit and posts it on a kbin magazine.
L3sVery neat! Using /u/L4s for /c/technology and /c/til, working like a charm so far!
Glad to hear it's working! If you have any problems or suggestions let me know :)
Actually have a question! I apologize if it's an obvious answer, I'm more familiar with Python/PS.
I noticed you xposted from /c/TIL to /m/TodayILearned, is that possible in the current commit? Currently modding /c/sysadmin and it'd be useful to have the other /x/sysadmin's have the same content across instanes.
Also do you want credit in the "bio" of that profile?
Excuse me if I don't understand your question but, you can definitely have this setup:
r/sysadmin -> c/sysadmin
r/sysadmin -> m/sysadmin
You can repeat the same subreddit in the config.yml files as many times as you want, the bot caches the response from reddit so it doesn't request the same thing over and over.
Also you don't need to credit if you don't want to, but you could add a description about your bot so other users know what is doing.
r/sysadmin -> c/sysadmin
r/sysadmin -> m/sysadmin
You can repeat the same subreddit in the config.yml files as many times as you want, the bot caches the response from reddit so it doesn't request the same thing over and over.
Also you don't need to credit if you don't want to, but you could add a description about your bot so other users know what is doing.
I'll definitely credit, and add an explanation so people don't think I'm "karma" farming with it.
Yeah after looking at the xpost it's not doing what I thought it was, my thought was it links to the original post - my thought was: xpost from /c/TIL would show comments/description of /m/todayilearned, and sync comments, etc between both posts, but it's a xpost so it makes sense that it doesn't work that way.
Thanks again for building this!
Yeah, it doesn't synchronize anything between posts, it just takes posts from reddit and posts it to the community you assign in the config.
I'm glad you found it useful!