Our Southern cousins in Sydney and Melbourne have daily threads which encourages a bit of chatter… Where’s ours?

I’d love to be the change I wish to see in the world, but I have no idea how to automate this any better than an alarm on my phone saying “post a daily thread idiot” and I’m sure there’s a better way.

  • Rusty Raven English
    2·
    1 year ago

    Please Please Please tell me what you are doing, I am still having trouble with mine. The tests all worked fine but it won’t post past midnight, and so obviously won’t work on a recurring basis. Also the part that does the pinning is just crashing the whole thing at the moment and I had to take that section out.

    • deadcatMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh… I better add pinning.

      I’m using a typescript app. I trigger it with a cronjob that runs a bash script wrapper.

      I should be able to put my code up on github this afternoon. :)

      • Rusty Raven English
        1·
        1 year ago

        Are you able to tell me what app and how you actually run it? Having code is great, but no one seems able/willing to tell me what to actually do with the code. I have been running it in Visual Script on my laptop which works for a while but not for long. I’ve also been trying to use Vercel to run from their server, but I can only get it to run there in build mode (which is time limited) and not transfer it to an ongoing cron job.

        • deadcatMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve cleaned up my code and checked it in here: https://github.com/dfrencham/lemmy-post-bot

          I use Visual Studio code (I run it using the Linux subsystem for windows).

          I’ve put instructions in the README.md file, and cron setup instructions in the SETUP_CRON.md file.

          If you are not setup to build the bot, then I can create a built version and post a .tar.gz file for you to use.

          • Rusty Raven English
            2·
            1 year ago

            Thank you, that is a lot simpler than the code I was using. Although I have miraculously got mine to work now, so will probably stick with that rather trying to redo it at this point, at least for now. It’s been a steep learning curve, but I am starting to somewhat understand what I am looking at with the code now, so that’s something!

            • calhoon2005English
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              1 year ago

              I enjoyed this and it was very wholesome. Well done you two.

            • deadcatMEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Great to hear it is working :) always a great feeling.

              I’ve updated my code to output a single .js file which can be called with node. The file is in a zip here: github

              If you have a look at the code updates, you might find feature/unfeature code useful. :)