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DABDA@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoAwesome, glad I was able to help!
That bot has long been a thorn in my side, both due to that Lemmy bug but relatedly because I used to include Piped links with all my YT ones but the bot doesn’t(/didn’t?) check for them before replying anyway. I’ve never created a bot but I can’t imagine it’s more than like a single line to do a regex search for the exact link it intends to post and aborting if it’s found.
Nothing4You@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
curious, what do you mean by checking them?
DABDA@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The Piped bot is checking comments for instances of a YouTube domain and video id (I don’t know specifically what it triggers on) and then replies with a link to that video id as a Piped-based one. But what it should also do is check if the initial comment also contains the Piped URL it’s about to post and then not reply with a duplicate of that same address.
For example I’d post something like
And the bot would reply offering the exact “Piped mirror” address I had already linked to. This would happen regardless of if I used custom link text or just left it as a raw URL so the bot clearly wasn’t doing a check of either method.