this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/328546

If you are from reddit, there was a subreddit called "RedditRead" which aggregated automatically all books title found in "what are you reading" threads and making a post for each one with a link to Goodreads. I think this was great and would be a good idea to implement on Lemmy, but with the following changes:

  • Due to the concept of federation, less centralized, I think the bot should takes it's input from several communities ([email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; ...)
  • It should not promote non-free service like Goodreads but rather use open library or bookwyrm api to fetch it's data and link to those free services

What do you think? I may be interested in developing something (using some existing bot framework, should not be too difficult), but I will not be able to host it (unless it can be done for free - without too much assle).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We have a responsive bot if you need something to work from.

[โ€“] sneakyninjapants 1 points 1 year ago

This is a great idea! There's a Python API wrapper for Lemmy that should make this much more straight forward to do Here.