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Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
#2I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality.
A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for each DM and mention we got (so I could manually respond and claim the prize). We didn’t disguise it well, and were shut down after about 4 weeks, but it was fun while it lasted! :)
Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
#3I have a few things running that check stack exchange tags, Twitter, subreddits and sends alerts via slack to me when something matches.
Just a way to stay up to date on some things.
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#4I have a few things running that check stack exchange tags, Twitter, subreddits and sends alerts via slack to me when something matches. Just a way to stay up to date on some things.
that's excellent. what language, what's the design, do you have your own personal slack server, and so on.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
#5I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality. A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for eac…
cool. very cool.
(i know this is a "low content" post for hackernews, but this is a new thread with no posts, so ymmv.)
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#6no. kind of like the sometimes heard of painter whose house never has a decent coat of paint i rarely write any code for myself. i write code for a living.
but here are some of the little bots i've written on the dime:
- ?lunch - an eggdrop command that displayed the catered lunch that day
- scheduling bots that posted to channels who was "on call" for that day
- yeah, that's it. in terms of bots. i thought i had more but i can't think of jack
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#7I've got a simple run running that calculates my girlfriend's GPA. The University doesn't display your GPA where topics are listed, but it does list the grade and weight. The calculation is easy and it only runs once a month, and notifies her when new grades have been added.
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#8I've got one that grabs a few pages of my favourite background site and replaces my windows backgrounds every week.
It'll loop through the thousands they have there a hundred at a time, so I'm right for the next couple years.
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#9To manage my wife's medication on the correct timeframes I built my own bot. It's connected to our normal day to day messenger channels so it's been nice and convenient. https://reminderbot.io
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#10I have a few things running that check stack exchange tags, Twitter, subreddits and sends alerts via slack to me when something matches. Just a way to stay up to date on some things.
that's excellent. what language, what's the design, do you have your own personal slack server, and so on.
They’re all using Python.
A bunch of friends from back in college got together about 2 years ago for Christmas. We all decided to use slack since we use it for work. I just created a private channel there and the python scripts all post to the channel
- Reddit is using the .json endpoints on the url, https://reddit.com/r/funny/.json - Stack exchange loads the URLs and uses beautifulsoup. - For Twitter I use twython
For posting to Slack, I use the slackweb package.