[HN Gopher] Show HN: Hacker News bot that automated archive find...
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Show HN: Hacker News bot that automated archive finding and
commenting
Hi everyone, I build this bot to automate the process of going to
wayback machine (or archive.ph) to find the archive link for posts
with articles that have subscription blocks The idea was to have
this run on a server and then I wouldn't have this daily annoyance,
the bot was banned, so its not currently active, but I still wanted
to show it off and get some feedback Disclaimer : HN doesn't allow
bots, so please don't use this to run your own HN bot.
Author : ss_
Score : 17 points
Date : 2022-09-11 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| cloudking wrote:
| Cool idea. It's kind of silly that "Hacker" News doesn't allow
| hacking the comments section with useful bots. Why not let the
| community decide through comment voting?
| krapp wrote:
| matttb wrote:
| I'm very happy they don't allow them. It would probably be
| flooded with annoying and useless bots like reddit. Sure you
| can downvote them, but it's still extra effort * a lot of
| people's attention
| moonshotideas wrote:
| Love the idea. Too bad it's not allowed, it would save me some
| annoyance.
| unknownaccount wrote:
| I wish there was a bot that automatically archived [flagged]
| posts. the fact users here can use botnets to flag/remove any
| submission or post they dislike makes Hacker News positively
| useless for whistleblowing. I learned from experience anything
| even tangentially controversial is almost guaranteed to be false-
| flagged and taken down.
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