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@lemmy.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.com gunners.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
@[email protected] -football Norwich City - Bristol City
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
This is a really neat bot, I hope c/football has enough traffic to create some good discussion in the match threads!
Great, thanks!
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.
@[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.
@[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:
Username Community [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Banned users:
Username Community [email protected] [email protected]
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 👌
can you guys add my Turkish Süper Lig community to allowed communities? I can add live threads to there if I can. [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 superlig@lemy.lolEdit: 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] -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}(optional)- Shows the rules applied to the community.blacklist {community}(optional)- Will no longer interact with community.remove_blacklist {community}(optional)- Will interact with the community again.whitelist {community}(optional)- Opens up the bot to post in the community.remove_whitelist {community}(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]:
Match-up Date republic of ireland - england 2024-09-07T16:00:00Z -remove -football republic of ireland - england
Game removed from live queue.
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-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]:
Match-up Date croatia - poland 2024-09-08T18:45:00Z
-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]:
Match-up Date norway - austria 2024-09-09T18:45:00Z france - belgium 2024-09-09T18:45:00Z paris saint-germain - brest 2024-09-14T19:00:00Z
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‘Derby county - Norwich city is more than 2 hours old.’
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: Derby county Away Team: Norwich cityPlease verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
@[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:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: Tottenham Away Team: ArsenalPlease 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 Northampton Town - Kettering Town
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
-football Aston Villa - Manchester United
@[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:
Football Live Thread Post to: [email protected] Home team: -queue brentford - Away Team: Manchester cityPlease verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
