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Should we separate this out into MTGO and Arena communities? (mtgzone.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was planning to set up a bot to post the Arena daily deals screenshot each day, and I was curious if it would be better to put that in a dedicated Arena room or just leave it here.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

At this stage, the community is so small that combining the two platforms is fine. Long-term, if we grow to hundreds or thousands of users, I'd bet at least some of them would appreciate being able to subscribe separately.

I like the idea of having the bot post the daily deals. I was idly dreaming about what it would take to have a bot repost some of the official news articles -- I know I always like to see the weekly Arena announcements -- but I don't see anything like an RSS feed on https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/archive , and I sure don't like the idea of trying to scrape the HTML, having to rework the bot every time they change the page....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I was idly dreaming about what it would take to have a bot repost some of the official news articles – I know I always like to see the weekly Arena announcements – but I don’t see anything like an RSS feed on https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/archive , and I sure don’t like the idea of trying to scrape the HTML, having to rework the bot every time they change the page…

This is the type of thing I would love to collect somewhere. I'm planning to build out the bot capabilities, and anything we can add to the bots the better imo. Weekly decklists was another suggestion, but I'll post more when I have something ready to start scraping.

You can add .json to a subreddit. I was planning to set the bot to look through https://reddit.com/r/magicarena.json and parse it for "Daily Deals" and "Mmmm Dd, YYYY" or something. That kinda thing to start, but any and all suggestions you have are appreciated.

[–] Magisterial_Odor 3 points 2 years ago

Leaving it here sounds good to me, at least. Thanks for setting that up.

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