Mafia bot

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So I see @discobot trawls through the site and gets called/comes in to post when it’s mentioned.

I tried to look at the discobot code on github, but I’m not completely understanding how it’s hooking up to the website and instantly replying. I figure it has some generic commands like diceroll and such, but does it have the capability of reading/processing all of the posts in a thread?

I’d like to try to add on some extension to the bot to have it function in the same way that stovebot was working in the old forums.

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

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@discobot display help

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I currently know how to do the following things:

@discobot start new user

Starts one of the following interactive narratives: new user, advanced user.

@discobot roll 2d6

:game_die: 3, 6

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you — Princess Diana

@discobot fortune

:crystal_ball: You may rely on it

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Alternatively, if I wanted to create a bot, if modifying discobot isn’t an option, what other options are available?

I know the selenium bot I was using would prob work, but it was a standalone that was running on my machine locally, I think it would be pretty cool if something like discobot running server side could be created instead.

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@discobot start advanced user

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Maybe this

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If you get something working in a local environment let me know.

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You don’t want to crawl at all

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Old namafia forum pi has a working bot that was using a crawler with selenium, it wasn’t the best implementation but it worked well.

I would have to update all of the XPaths to the ones on this site but I think it would work fine, however i know some things I need to figure out is how the bot interacts w infinite scroll on this site. Prev bot was saving the direct url for the last post it read and jumping to that pg. Worst case scenario I could have the bot reread every post when it runs every 60 seconds.

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Make it way easier: don’t have the bot read all the posts. Require lynches to be accompanied by @'ing the bot

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The Boot?

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i assume the bot could be made and it would be like @mafiabot lynch retard-xyz

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Yeah. Add in additional commands like
@mafiabot votecount
And
@mafiabot EoD
To get end of day time

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The bot should be called Lynch so you can do “@lynch epok” for example.

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@lynch name
@lynch count
@lynch time

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You Don’t Need A Bot

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Thing I like most about the bot was heyying vote count

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not saying a bot wouldn’t be great but control f lynch on this site works pretty well for finding all lynchvotes quite quickly

the search button I mean

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Yea, maybe a spreadsheet or something would be equally as effective without nearly as much hours needed to develop.

The big issue I was having in the games I’m in was keeping track of where the votes were being moved and how close to hammer the games were.