This was the first CS club meeting of the year, which meant it was important to draw in as many students as possible. Latest Meme SidebarĪt around this point I created a 'Latest Meme' sidebar for the site. It doesn't look the greatest, but I really just needed something to make my life on the backend a little easier. I also have a super-secret dashboard to approve the memes and queue them up to be posted to the RSS feed.

I didn't really put a lot of effort into the page. I added a MemeProposal table to the database to facilitate this. I wanted to get other students involved, so I set up a page for students to submit their own memes for the bot to post. Submit Your Own MemesĪt this point I had decided I was going to present this topic for my computer science club meeting. In the meantime, I setup the Integromat bot to read and post new items from the RSS feed as a stopgap. This kind of frustrated me, so I just gave up and moved onto something else for a bit. Then, I tried contacting their support, but they didn't seem to think it was on their end. I tried adding other feeds in case it was just my feed that was causing the issue. The process seemed straightforward enough, but I couldn't get it to work. Originally, I tried to use the Socialfeeds Discord bot, which was already in my server for posting certain tweets. as an example of the /meme/seo-name format Tying Into the Feed Just like any post, the post topic ('meme') followed by it's SeoName will take you to the image: Encoding images in base64 and returning them would be impractical considering all the bandwidth required. Retrieving the necessary data to construct the RSS feed involves fetching all published posts of type Meme, and prefetching their Content. I then created a PostType table to differentiate between different types of posts, like blog vs meme. Migrating the text content from files to the new Content table Pg_read_binary_file('/fractured-code-net/sysadmin/vps-config-ssh-tunnels-docker-nginx')::bytea This means it can hold text, images, executables.pretty much anything. The actual content was stored in a bytea column which just holds binary data. I decided to move all content on the site from the filesystem to the database, in a Content table. I had to create some database schema to facilitate this. I decided to host the RSS feed on this site,. However, I will be focusing on Discord for the scope of this write-up.

I decided the mechanism to distribute memes would be an RSS feed, since it is platform agnostic. The idea is I want bots to post daily memes automatically on platforms like Discord. Name = description.getElement('div', value='title').textĬontent = content + ' > ' + blockquote.textĬontent = content + ' ' + description.getElement('p', start='').This is a project I had on a todo list for a while and I finally made the time to do it. from simplified_scrapy import SimplifiedDoc, reqĭescription = doc.getElement('item').getElement('description') I wonder if this will meet your requirements. How do I insert a > character in front of every line that appears in the tags? > HECK YES DUDE F-777 IS KING!!! whats ur favorite song?į-777 are the ones that are used in Geometry Dash all the time, right? This is an example of what I need to get before the bot can send it on Discord: > Kajunii42: Seeing as it will be posting on discord, I need the quote part to start with >to get it to appear in quote blocks. They don't have to quote someone, so it won't always be there, and what I'm asking won't always be necessary. On our forum, a user can quote a previous post, or multiple previous posts, and that shows up in tags in the RSS feed. HECK YES DUDE F-777 IS KING!!! whats ur favorite song?į-777 are the ones that are used in Geometry Dash all the time, right? ]]> I'm using urllib to read the RSS feed, and bs4 to parse it. I'm working on a bot that scrapes data from a forum and posts in a discord channel.

Discord rss bot