Update: To add or remove women’s game’s, you now need to add -w to the command. E.g. -football -w Barcelona - Liverpool or -remove -football -w Barcelona - Liverpool
This is due to edge cases where men’s and women’s team share name and play against the same opponent on the same day. Women’s match thread will also be marked with [Women’s game] in the title.
As some of you may have seen, the community now has a match thread bot to help with automating creation and updating match threads.
The bot takes a request in the format -football football.world Barcelona - Real Madrid and will look up to 6 days ahead for an upcoming match and add it to a queue. ~15 minutes before kick off it will make a post that it will continuously update with available score, stats and commentary.
To make a request you can either tag the bot or reply to one of the bot’s comments. See the comments for an interaction example.
The bot will work in any community federated with lemmy.world so if you want to create a live thread in e.g. c/gunners you could make a request like this -football gunners@lemmy.world Arsenal - Tottenham Hotspur
Do note that the bot requires approval from a mod or admin to post in a community. So unless you’re a mod/admin, you’ll need to ask them to approve the bot via -mod_action whitelist gunners@lemmy.world or become a trusted user that can bypass the block -mod_action trust username@instance.com gunners@lemmy.world
For a more detailed and technical overview of the bot’s capabilities, please check the readme in the gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/UlrikHD/lemmy-match-thread-bot
Example output of a live thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/18633476
@LiveThreadBot@lemmy.world -football Villareal - Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@LiveThreadBot@lemmy.world -football FK Crvena zvezda - Benfica
‘No live game found, wrong team names?’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread
Post to: football@lemmy.world
Home team: Fk crvena zvezda
Away Team: Benfica
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
Hey, mod from c/gunners here: how do I differentiate the mens’ and womens’ teams in the command? Cuz we play man city with both our teams on sunday and I don’t think the bot is being able to differentiate, it seems to only be finding one of the matches (probably cuz of the same team problem)
I’ve added the women’s team directly into the queue. I didn’t account for for multiple teams having the exact same name and playing the same day against each other in the code when writing it, so I’ll need fix the issue.
Hello! I am a bot that can create live threads on lemmy.
I can be called by either tagging me in a comment or by replying to me.
Usage:
For all (optional) community@instance inputs, if none given, will assume the community the message is sent from.
-football community@instance(optional {home team} - {away team} - Sets up a game in the queue for live-thread creation. Thread is created ~16.0 min before kick-off. Defaults to football@lemmy.world if no community is given.
-remove {-sport} {community@instance}(optional) {home team} - {away team} - Removes a game queued for live-thread creation. Only available for requester, mods and admins.
-queue {-sport} {community@instance}(optional) - Lists the current live threads queued for posting.
-mod_action {command} {input} - Various mod actions to set rules for the bot.
admin_action {command} {input}
-message {message} - Sends a message to bot maintainer
Mod commands:
rules {community}(optional) - Shows the rules applied to the community.
blacklist {community}(optional) - Will no longer interact with community.
remove_blacklist {community@instance}(optional) - Will interact with the community again.
whitelist {community}(optional) - Opens up the bot to post in the community.
remove_whitelist {community@instance}(optional) - Removes the community from the whitelist.
trust {username@instance} {community@instance}(optional) - Removes rate limit restrictions for the user, all mods are trusted users for their communities.
untrust {username@instance} {community@instance}(optional) - Removes the trusted status for the user, can not apply to mods in their communities.
ban {username@instance} {community@instance}(optional) - The user can no longer interact with the bot in the given community.
unban {username@instance} {community@instance}(optional) - The user is removed from the ban list for the given community.
Admin commands:
Same as mod commands, however admins can also add commands to their entire instance by using the format {-@instance}. Do note that community specific commands overrule instance-wide commands.
Source Code: https://gitlab.com/UlrikHD/lemmy-match-thread-bot
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
‘No live game found, wrong team names?’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread
Post to: football@lemmy.world
Home team: Biggleswade fc
Away Team: Canvey island
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
