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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by poopsmith to c/tldrbot
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The bot just makes use of:

  • SMMRY - I'm evaluating this and might eventually switch over to some ml library
  • LemmyBot

As posts come in on a news community (via LemmyBot), I grab the url and pass it to smmry, and reply. And that's it.

Update June 22, 2023: I'll probably stop using SMMRY as it's pretty buggy and not usable ~20% of the time. I'm thinking about using a headless browser (like Selenium), grabbing the text, and using GPT to analyze and summarize the text. I need to try this out and guesstimate the pricing for it.

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[–] poopsmith 3 points 2 years ago

SMMRY kinda sucks when using the URL mode. It'll sometimes grab the gdpr cookie message and summarize that, or it'll grab weird metadata.