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Lemmy bot to automatically reply to YouTube links with Piped ones (feddit.rocks)

submitted 1 year ago by kavin@feddit.rocks to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google's servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped's source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I'm the author of Piped :P

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[–] Barns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks cool! Do I need to specifically add it to a community, or are you scanning all comments on Lemmy.world?

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Currently, it scans all posts that are federated with my Lemmy instance (feddit.rocks), however, there are very few communities that it is scanning currently as there are very few users who have subscribed to communities on my instance.

If more people register on my Lemmy instance and subscribe to more communities, it will scan those communities as well.

I hope more users register on my instance so it can be listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances too :) I currently lack the 5 active users requirement for that, unfortunately.

~~Alternatively, I could maybe add a way for people to get the bot to subscribe to a community, so people from other instances can add communities to be scanned. 🤔~~ You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld) and it will try joining it :)

[–] jandar_fett@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'm going to subscribe to your instance since you seem to have such cool ideas to help the fediverse and care about privacy.

[–] Barns@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got it, yes, I think having the bot subscribe to communities is a good way to solve this, and how I've seen it done. Basically users can message the bot with "subscribe ", the bot periodically checks its DMs, subscribes to the Communities and starts monitoring/processing them.

You can add a small footnote to each message, telling them about your instance, so you also get "free publicity" 😉

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld) and it will try joining it :)