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Lemmy bot to automatically reply to YouTube links with Piped ones (feddit.rocks)

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

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google's servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped's source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I'm the author of Piped :P

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

Got it, yes, I think having the bot subscribe to communities is a good way to solve this, and how I've seen it done. Basically users can message the bot with "subscribe ", the bot periodically checks its DMs, subscribes to the Communities and starts monitoring/processing them.

You can add a small footnote to each message, telling them about your instance, so you also get "free publicity" 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) and it will try joining it :)