- cross-posted to:
- fedigrow@lemmy.zip
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fedigrow@lemmy.zip
- fediverse@lemmy.world
To see it in action:
Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)
Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch
Example of search for ‘movies’
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What we really need is a revival of the functionality of the bot at !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl that died. I still miss it so much :(
There was a revival attempt at !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe , but it was short lived.
That probably shows a trend: those type of tools need to be built-in into the software, relying on Raspberry Pies, scripts and external tools to provide such features will likely lead to them being abandoned
Oh I missed that somehow! I’ll subscribe just in case, but I agree with you that the functionality should ideally be built in to the software.
We do.
!trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe
But it’s also running intermittently, and hasn’t been updated in a week or so.
Is there a Python wrapper for writing PieFed bots? Or does Pythörhead work of-the-box for PieFed?
I don’t think piefed has the same API has lemmy, so no. It’s been something I wanted to onboard (the piefed API) ,but I haven’t fouind the time.
I do see there is code to throw an error when it detects an instance is not Lemmy, so it definitely doesn’t work out-of-the-box. But the APIs for each are supposedly similar to each other, so it fortunately should not take any major rewrite to support both in the same wrapper.
Do you have a link to the API doc? Nevemind, found it: https://freamon.github.io/piefed-api/
Like Blaze mentioned, the api is a bit of a work in progress and we are revamping the swagger. The version of the api spec you have there (freamon’s) is manually created and can have some inaccuracies because of that. We are in the process of making the piefed api self-documenting so that inputs/outputs are validated against the schema, but there are a lot of endpoints still to go in that effort.
Some of those revamped endpoints are going to be coming in the 1.2 release. For the self-documented endpoints that have been done so far, you can check the swagger on crust (the dev instance running right off the main branch).
To keep up with this effort as I am working through it, I have been making posts to !piefed_api@piefed.social.
On a personal note, I would kill for a pythorhead-but-for-piefed to exist. I pretty extensively use pythorhead in my lemmy communities now, so I am hopeful that we can get the api in a stable enough state to enable tools like this to exist in the near future.
Yeah I would like to support it as well. I’ll wait until the API stabilizes though to avoid more work
The updated swagger is here https://crust.piefed.social/api/alpha/swagger see the other comment
The updated swagger is here https://crust.piefed.social/api/alpha/swagger
@wjs018@piefed.social , @andrew_s@piefed.social should the freamon page redirect to the crust one?
No clue, sorry.
didn’t even realize it died :/ do you know why?
No idea, it just stopped working. It already didn’t work with Piefed communities I think, maybe it was taken down for maintenance and never put back up?
One important thing about Lemmyverse is that you can search for communities your instance isn’t “aware of” yet. Seeing the “Add remote community” button, I guess this is something that’s not possible with Piefed’s community search?
The other day I made a feature which automatically adds every community posted to newcommunities@lemmy.world. And another feature that automatically posts to that comm whenever a local community is created.
That’s works on a ongoing basis. There are other features for bulk-adding communities as a one off job.
Piefed loads the data from Lemmyverse: https://piefed.social/post/531611
This post only says that the Lemmyverse data “is used to suggest search results to people when adding a remote community.” Is this data also included in the communities page?
Another thought about the linked post: Removing inactive communities from the Lemmyverse data is certainly a good thing for stuff like “technology”, “memes”, “news” etc., but if you’re looking for a community about a very niche topic you might even be interested in an inactive community without active alternatives to perhaps “revive” it with your posts.
I’ll have to ping @rimu@piefed.social for your first question.
About your other paragraph, not sure what the inactive threshold is, but yeah, that could be useful.
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People feel the same way about lemmy.
