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We need some sort of bot... (self.procycling)

submitted 1 year ago by EvilCartyen to c/procycling

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... to post race threads & result threads for at least all WT-races. Does anyone have the skills to run a bot like this?

I often want to throw a quick comment as a race is going on, but creating a race thread or a result thread is a LOT of work and it keeps me from engaging.

I think this is what we need to make this community grow.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I probably have the skills, but not sure I have the time. I'll see what I can do if no-one gets there first.

I'm a bit wary that too many auto-gen'd threads that don't get engaged with would be bad. Maybe starting with one thread per stage for grand tours and one per race for other World Tour races.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can have a pop at this if you're short on time. That sounds like a sensible place to start with post quantity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go for it. I'm aware of https://github.com/baronet2/FirstCyclingAPI, https://github.com/josselingirault/procyclingstats.com-webscraper/, https://github.com/themm1/procyclingstats that might help.

A good first step might be to get a bot that posts scheduled posts, even if all the data that goes into the posts is manually entered (e.g. all stages in one go at the start of the race).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah nice, thanks, I'll have a gander through those. Yeah I was thinking just to get a bot up and running to simply posts threads to begin with, then I can look to integrate with calenders, post stats etc.

[–] EvilCartyen 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, that sounds awesome 🙂 where're you going to scrape data from? Does PCS or FirstCycling have an API to hook into?