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olafmoriarty / blue-bots-done-quick

A version of Cheap Bots, Done Quick written for Bluesky
Apache License 2.0
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feature request: SVG & ability to turn off after going live #6

Open alien-sunset opened 5 hours ago

alien-sunset commented 5 hours ago

it looks like there is no choice for "don't post at all" in the posting frequency drop down. this is a bit problematic if I decide to go live but then need to change the code or poke things. (although I suppose i could use "every week" but i'm a little concerned if maintenance ends up taking longer

also, I wanted to import one of my mastodon bots from Cheap Bots Toot Sweet, but it outputs SVG images. and it doesn't appear like Blue Bots can't do that yet? (og bot: https://botsin.space/@Soft_Skylines)

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olafmoriarty commented 5 hours ago

There actually is a way to turn off the bot after going live - it's a separate deactivate button and not an option in the frequency list. I'll see if I can add Never to the list as well, but the functionality of turning off posting during maintenance already exists.

SVG is unfortunately not supported yet, but you're not the first person to ask for it, and it's already the next planned update, which hopefully won't take TOO long.

alien-sunset commented 3 hours ago

oh, also, I notice that your handling of alt text is slightly different than cheap bots. is there any particular reason for this?

(just hoping that it can also be done similarly to chap bots so I don't have re-write all my alts - I have another bot I'd like to import eventually that posts pieces of Remedio Varo's art and each individual piece has it's own alt text and there are over 200 entries! 😅)

olafmoriarty commented 3 hours ago

Honestly I didn't know that cbdq allowed alt text at all, so I just picked a solution that made sense to me. How does cbdq handle alt text? I'm a big fan of doing things similarly as long as it's practically possible, as I assume "people just wanting to import their twitter bots" is a significant share of the user base...

alien-sunset commented 3 hours ago

Cheap Bots Toot Sweet does: https://cheapbotstootsweet.com/

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so the tracery for one of my images looks something like this:

"Star Porridge / Papilla Estelar (1958) \n https://www.remediosvaro.art/paintings/papilla-estelar \n{img https://remedios-varo-art-images.s3.amazonaws.com/114-papilla-estelar.jpg}{alt Star Porridge / Papilla Estelar (1958) by Remedios Varo (1908 - 1963)} \nFeel free help improve this bot by suggesting better alt text in the comments, thanks. \n\n ",

I'm honestly not sure the twitter version ever did allow for alt text 🫤

alien-sunset commented 3 hours ago

I think you are using a completely different language, but the git for cheap bots toot sweet is here:

https://github.com/BooDoo/CheapBotsTootSweet