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Welcome to KBin's Manga Magazine! This is a space to talk about manga of all shapes of sizes. Whether a timeless classic or a new weekly release, it's welcome to be talked about here!

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Could anyone make a bot that scrapes manga as they come in and posts them here with a DISC classifier? Maybe somewhere like manga4life? (manga4life.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think it could help keep a steady stream of posts if that's what people want. I'm not seeing much discussion happening here though

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about that as well.
Perhaps something along the lines of reading a feed from the Mangadex API

However, although I'd like the "Manga" magazine to grow, I do feel like I'm a bit stuck in the Reddit mindset.
Part of the appeal of being a "Federated" instance is that you can get content from anywhere, regardless what instance is the origin.
So, it shouldn't matter if I go to the manga "magazine" or get the feed from elsewhere.
This is very much at odds with how I previously consumed content though.

Unlike Twitter where you follow a hashtag, Reddit taught me I should go to sub-communities if I want to follow discussion.

So should we just neglect magazines and simply comment under individual posts found under a #hashstag or drag Reddit's style of browsing into Fediverse?

In any case, as far as I know the Kbin API doesn't yet support a bot that'd post like that.
You could, however, simply make a bot that uses the UI (using JS to fill out fields) to post things.
It'd break the moment it faces something like Cloudflare or any other anti-bot measure, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought about it some more after making a Lemmy account. While Kbin API isn't finalized, couldn't we make a Manga-Lemmy to post here? As far as I know, Lemmy's API is more mature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

im all for it! i have zero technical skill though

[–] Decide 2 points 1 year ago

I admittedly don't either, but I'm near a part in my course that works with API. I should be able to do something in the coming days. I took a look and it seems like Lemmy has all the API I need for this, too. I'm hopeful.