LiveThreadBot is now live
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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] or become a trusted user that can bypass the block -mod_action trust [email protected] [email protected]
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
This is a really neat bot, I hope c/football has enough traffic to create some good discussion in the match threads!
I like how we're the example and I didn't even know about this bot till now. Might consider using this. Does it do women's football as well?
If the game is casted on espn it is supported, which should be most professional leagues.
Hmmm, don't see our next UWCL game on there. Maybe cuz it's qualifiers still.
This is their espn page https://www.espn.com/soccer/team?id=19973
I can see they got a game lined up 22. September, close to the bottom of the score page
Edit:
yeah, no, we've a game on Wednesday too.
Great, thanks!
@[email protected] -football [email protected] Switzerland - Spain
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
btw: from last match thread of ours, not sure if this is a bug on your end or ESPN's, but Jorginho's mononym seems to be causing a tiny bug
Thanks for the report, will fix it soon 👌
@[email protected] -football Manchester City - Fulham
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -mod_action trust [email protected] [email protected]
https://sopuli.xyz/u/blaze is now a trusted user in [email protected]. The user can now request live threads without being rate limited or requiring whitelisted community access.
-mod_action ban [email protected] [email protected]
https://lemmy.world/u/testulrikhd is now banned in [email protected]. The user can no longer interact with bot in this community.
-mod_action rules
Rules for [email protected] as of 2024-09-07T14:41:32.241341+00:00:
Bot whitelisted for entire site:
FalseBot whitelisted for community:
TrueBot blacklisted for entire site:
FalseBot blacklisted for community:
FalseTrusted users:
Banned users:
@[email protected] -help
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 [email protected] 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 maintainerMod commands:
rules {community@instance}(optional)- Shows the rules applied to the community.blacklist {community@instance}(optional)- Will no longer interact with community.remove_blacklist {community@instance}(optional)- Will interact with the community again.whitelist {community@instance}(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
-football Republic of Ireland - England
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
-remove -football republic of ireland - england
Game removed from live queue.
-football Croatia - Poland
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
-football France - Belgium
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
can you guys add my Turkish Süper Lig community to allowed communities? I can add live threads to there if I can. [email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Good to see a nice a community for the SuperLig!
Thanks, I'm glad too, for having a bot that works with Süper Lig :)
You can whitelist the community (if you're a moderator or admin) with the command
-mod_action whitelist [email protected]Edit: you also don't need to whitelist it to have it post threads there if you're a mod. If you're a mod you can make a request and it will post even if not whitelisted for general use.
Oh I thought the whitelist stuff was operated by bot owner. Makes sense now, thx.
I can do it, but I don't want to push the bot on other communities. Everything I as a bot Maintainer can do, admins/mods can also do.
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Burnley
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected]
@[email protected] -queue -sport [email protected]
@[email protected] -football Sunderland AFC - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Portsmouth - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-football Dortmund - Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football [email protected] Trabzonspor - Besiktas
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Stoke City - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Wolves - Manchester City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football FK Crvena zvezda - Benfica
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Venezia FC - Atlanta
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Preston North End - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Cardiff City - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Plymouth Argyle
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -queue -football [email protected]
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
@[email protected] -football Manchester City - Feyenoord
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Northampton Town - Kettering Town
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Sheffield Wednesday - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Bristol City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Tottenham - Arsenal
Haven't pushed it to repo yet, but this is currently the mapping for teams that may have their shorthand form requested instead of the name ESPN uses. Let me know if there's any other teams I should add
Great!
Hmm, I should probably create a dict that links Tottenham to Tottenham Hotspur
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
-football Tottenham Hotspur - Arsenal
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
Thanks !
@[email protected] -football Manchester City - Inter Milan
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Manchester City - Internazionale
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football AC Milan - Liverpool
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
-football Manchester City - Arsenal
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-queue -football
No games are currently queued up for Football_game in [email protected].
-football Bayern Munich - Dinamo Zagreb
'Bayern munich - Dinamo zagreb is more than 2 hours old.'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football West Bromwich Albion - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Manchester City - Tottenham Hotspur
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football AS Monaco - FC Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Luton Town
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Queens Park Ranger - Norwich City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Sun Norwich City - Millwall FC
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
'Derby county - Norwich city is more than 2 hours old.'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Barnsley - Stockport Country FC
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football ![email protected] -queue Brentford - Manchester City
@[email protected] you might want to have a look
The login error seems to have its root issue in a Python Lemmy API library. I've sent a pull request to fix the issue, but it may take a week or two for the maintainer to see it.
If the lemmy.world servers goes down in the meantime the bot will likely fail again, so just tag me again if the bot doesn't respond within 15 minutes.
Great, thanks!
Thanks for the notifications, was a login error that kept the bot offline. Will look into fixing it.
It seems to be working now, I got messages in the other thread
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Bologna - Atalanta
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-football Barcelona - young boys
Thanks
Aight, how in the world did you see the request as fast as the bot lmao
The power of "New comments" ha ha
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
Ping
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands.Reason given:
No command given.Where do we post these requests to the bot? And why didn't it work for this match?
-football Alavés - Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Norwich city - Leeds United
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football AS Monaco - Montpellier HSC
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
Ping
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands.Reason given:
No command given.@[email protected] -football Ipswich Town - Aston Villa
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Osasuna - Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-queue
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands.Reason given:
No arguments were given for queue command.@[email protected] -football [email protected] Galatasaray - Caykur Rizespor
'Galatasaray - Caykur rizespor is more than 2 hours old.'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Swansea City - Bristol City
Please don't spam football requests as we don't want to drown the sub with inactive live threads. If you make a request, you should preferably be active in the live thread.
Sorry. I was curious as to what it could pick up match wise. Did not mean any harm.
It's fine, just nipping it in the bud before it gets too much.
The bot can cover all games that espn covers here: https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard
awesome work on the bot, any plans to add a subscribe to team feature?
for example it would be nice to subscribe to all Manchester United games on the reddevils community.
I can implement that soon, I'll let you know.
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Manchester United - Tottenham Hotspur
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football Galatasaray - Caykur Rizespor
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Trabzonspor - Besiktas
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -mod_action whitelist [email protected]
Bot whitelisted for [email protected]. The bot can now post live threads in this community without requiring elevated privileges.
@[email protected] -queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
@[email protected] -football -queue
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands. Reason given:Unexpected format on request, expected a single spaced out dash separating the two teams.@[email protected] -queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[email protected] -football FC Porto - Manchester United
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -mod_action buffer_time 3600 [email protected]
Post buffer time for [email protected] set to 1h, 0min. The bot will now post live threads 1h, 0min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football [email protected] FC Porto - Manchester United
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~1h, 0min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -mod_action whitelist [email protected]
Request was denied for the given reason:
Bot requires user to have moderator privileges in [email protected] to perform this action.@[email protected], maybe an issue here, pisturko is a mod there
Seems like federation sync between lemmy.world and lemy.lol is funky. The bot did detect the mod status correctly on second try, though there should be no reason it didn't detect it on first ping. It's just parsing response json after all.
The account also doesn't receive tags from lemy.lol for some reason, but that's an instance issue as I can't see tags when logging into the account on boost.
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands. Reason given:No command given.It looks like it can't track commands from my community too :/ https://lemy.lol/post/31221309
edit: whitelisted the community https://lemy.lol/post/30848216/12995429
It doesn't seem like your tags on the other instance are being detected by lemmy.world. At least not within reasonably time.
Looks like nothing is reaching to lemmy.world. https://lemmy.world/post/19772630
I'm not sure which instance is faulty here. @[email protected]
Yeah there is some federation issues. From a lemmy.world account I can't see any comments on superlig.
I've set the bot to subscribe to superlig, so hopefully lemmy.world will start to sync activity from that community.
Edit: for the record, it's the same for programming.dev as it is for lemmy.world. lemmy.ml only sees the latest post, with no comments.
I had actually removed the previous post and created a new one. I just commented to the new post to test it and it appears to be federated to both lemmy.world and programming.dev now. Since the bot responded to my comment, I guess the problem was about federation.
@[email protected] -football England - Greece
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -queue -football [email protected]
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
Seems like it works now, what did you change?
TBH, nothing. Just ran the command again :)
Maybe at first the bot didn't know about the community? But anyway, all good now :)
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Hull City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-football Real Sociedad - Real Madrid
-football Aston Villa - Manchester United
@[email protected] -football Finland - England
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Real Sociedad - Real Madrid
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Spain - Denmark
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Belgium - France
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football England U21 - Azerbaijan U21
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-football [email protected] Scotland - Portugal
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Manchester City - Southampton
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Middlesbrough FC
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@[email protected] -football Villareal - Barcelona
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
-football Barcelona - getafe
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
Ping
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands.Reason given:
No command given.Ping
Unknown request, please reply with
-helpfor a list of available commands.Reason given:
No command given.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.
@[email protected] -queue -football
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:
Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]: