I’ve just had this idea. Why don’t we create a bot that scans comments and replies to them with boardgamegeek links for every game found in the comment?
To simplify the implementation I would be favourable to introduce some sort of syntax to make unambiguous whether or not some words are a game name or not.
What do you think about this idea?
On reddit, several video game subreddits had the relevant names in brackets, which got parsed and linked to a wiki,…
E.g. Hey, if you want to get [Ability] you have to talk to [Person] at [Place] and fulfill their quest line. Also you’d need to pay 5 [Ressource]
Depending on the search function of BGG, one might even link to categories, mechanisms,…
Do you have an example or a link to a git repo?
I remember u/spirescan-bot for r/slaythespire. It uses double braces, but works this way.
Here’s a random old post from the bot about new features where users are testing these: https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/comments/d8t92r/new_bot_features/
The bot comments don’t link to its source, but searching the bot username on Google leads to this repository, that looks good at afirst glance. Seems to be a python bot and the source code contains the URL of the Slay The Spire Wiki: https://github.com/painebenjamin/spirescanbot
This is even better than what I was thinking. I wonder if Lemmy APIs allows it tho.
I am not opposed to the idea. If you need my support as the mod, please feel free to reach out
Good to know that you’re not contrary, however, I just wanted to bring an idea to the attention of the community. Right now I have neither the time nor the knowledge to do such a thing.