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

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@[email protected] -football [email protected] Switzerland - Spain

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.

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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.

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https://lemmy.world/u/testulrikhd is now banned in [email protected]. The user can no longer interact with bot in this community.

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-mod_action rules

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Rules for [email protected] as of 2024-09-07T14:41:32.241341+00:00:

Bot whitelisted for entire site: False

Bot whitelisted for community: True

Bot blacklisted for entire site: False

Bot blacklisted for community: False

Trusted users:

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[email protected] [email protected]

Banned users:

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[email protected] [email protected]
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This is a really neat bot, I hope c/football has enough traffic to create some good discussion in the match threads!

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@[email protected] -football Osasuna - Barcelona

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.

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-queue

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Unknown request, please reply with -help for a list of available commands.

Reason given: No arguments were given for queue command.

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@[email protected] -football [email protected] -queue Brentford - Manchester City

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@[email protected] you might want to have a look

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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.

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Great, thanks!

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Thanks for the notifications, was a login error that kept the bot offline. Will look into fixing it.

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It seems to be working now, I got messages in the other thread

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‘No live game found, wrong team names?’

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Home team: -queue brentford - Away Team: Manchester city

Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.

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@[email protected] -football Queens Park Ranger - Norwich City

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.

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@[email protected] -football Real Sociedad - Real Madrid

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.

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@[email protected] -football Galatasaray - Caykur Rizespor

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.

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@[email protected] -queue -football

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Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:

Match-up Date
paris saint-germain - brest 2024-09-14T19:00:00Z
real sociedad - real madrid 2024-09-14T19:00:00Z
girona - barcelona 2024-09-15T14:15:00Z
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@[email protected] -football -queue

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Unknown request, please reply with -help for a list of available commands. Reason given: Unexpected format on request, expected a single spaced out dash separating the two teams.

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@[email protected] -queue -football

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Football_game queued up for posting in [email protected]:

Match-up Date
paris saint-germain - brest 2024-09-14T19:00:00Z
real sociedad - real madrid 2024-09-14T19:00:00Z
girona - barcelona 2024-09-15T14:15:00Z
trabzonspor - besiktas 2024-09-15T17:00:00Z
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@[email protected] -mod_action whitelist [email protected]

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Bot whitelisted for [email protected]. The bot can now post live threads in this community without requiring elevated privileges.

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@[email protected] -football Trabzonspor - Besiktas

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.

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@[email protected] -football [email protected] Trabzonspor - Besiktas

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Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16.0 min before kick-off.

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@[email protected] -football [email protected] Galatasaray - Caykur Rizespor

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‘Galatasaray - Caykur rizespor is more than 2 hours old.’

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Home team: Galatasaray

 Away Team: Caykur rizespor

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