Bot, can I make one? Without technical know-how...

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Bot, can I make one? Without technical know-how... - Mander

So, plainly, my questions are what know-how do I need to make one and if I ultimately can make one, how do I integrate it into a platform? E.g how did the pipedbot link I got to see, get integrated into lemmy in the comments section? So, I just discovered something called piped because a lemmy bot linked a YouTube video to it. My familiarity with privacy and FOSS is a bit naïve, but I’d like to build more on it. I’ve seen similar bots when I was on reddit, ones that would give links to a mentioned song, or the moderator ones (I’m assuming the AutoMod thing is a bot too). Could someone possibly walk me through how to make one? This might be irrelevant/relevant info: I’m familiar with knowledge graphs, SPARQL, a tiny tiny tiny bit of SQL, python and R (mostly because of school). Also, apart from links, moderation, and chats on customer service websites, where would a non-techy apply it? Even if it’s just for personal use. I know I could duckgogo this, but I prefer dynamic walkthroughs/explanations I can get here.

If you’re familiar with python, have a look at pythorhead, it’s a lemmy library

What bot are you looking for?

I second Python. Probably the easiest full-fledged general-purpose programming language to learn. In regard to the question: I have heard good things about “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” (no, i am not affliated with either author or publisher) : Link
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