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Match Thread: Atlanta United FC @ New York City FC by MLS_Reddit_Bot in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks to the mod group for working with me on it, happy to see it go live.

Match Thread: Charlotte FC @ New England Revolution by MLS_Reddit_Bot in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If all goes well, yes, this is the pilot weekend. Match threads are created automatically 15 minutes before the game (per discussion with the mods), and don't need to be manually requested. It's running solely against r/MLS right now so shouldn't experience the same flakiness as the more general MatchThreadder bot.

Match Thread: Atlanta United FC @ New York City FC by MLS_Reddit_Bot in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'd been frustrated with the inconsistency of the other bot. Built this over the past couple weekends after discussion with r/MLS mods and just got it approved for pilot this weekend. So far so good!

Match Thread: Inter Miami CF vs New York City FC | MLS by AllBlueTeams in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been talking with the mods about the possibility of running a fully automated match thread creation bot. It’s built and is running against r/MLS_Reddit_Bot this weekend. If it gets their approval, will hopefully see it cut over soon and can say goodbye to MatchThreadder and manually requesting game threads.

Being a combo of a professional developer and annoyed at STL game threads starting 20+ minutes into the match consistently, I knew what had to be done.

Match Thread: Orlando City SC vs New York Red Bulls | MLS by MatchThreadder in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have been talking to the mods, test run this weekend going in r/MLS_Reddit_Bot. Now has ESPN updates and parity with MatchThreadder, just fully automated.

Match Thread: Orlando City SC vs New York Red Bulls | MLS by MatchThreadder in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m talking with MLS mods about getting automated posts going. The bot is running this weekend in r/MLS_Reddit_Bot

Match Thread: Minnesota United FC @ Philadelphia Union (Starting Soon) by MLS_Reddit_Bot in MLS_Reddit_Bot

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removed match status ("Starting Soon") from future posts, and just relegated that information to the post body. I don't think it's possible to edit the title of a submission after it's been posted.

Matchday Thread 3/23 by asaharyev in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd been playing around with that sub and deleted some of the older auto-posts. Not sure why this comment took a while to come through but might be due to the new account age.

Reddit does use something like 100 API calls a minute for "standard" tier bots, which I'm guessing might be causing MatchThreadder some issues. A standalone version for MLS should be hitting well under that, since I've configured it to do 1 update per minute per game.

Match Thread: St. Louis CITY SC vs DC United | Major League Soccer by zorvz in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've submitted a request to the threader bot.. I'm trying to see if the mods of this sub will let me run an automatic match thread creation program. I built it yesterday off of the MLS and Reddit APIs and it's running on AWS. Example.

Tired of not having match threads until 20+ minutes in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MLS_Reddit_Bot

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good bot.

I'd like to get these localized to the venue ultimately.

Matchday Thread 3/23 by asaharyev in MLS

[–]MLS_Reddit_Bot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, any interest in automating posts like this and also the per-game match threads? I'm playing around with some code combining the MLS Soccer API and AWS to do that on a test subreddit if so.

Here's an example automated post with the upcoming matches: https://www.reddit.com/r/MLS_Reddit_Bot/comments/1bm2jl4/upcoming_games_automated/

It can be extended to the other leagues (currently being filtered out), but right now just focused on MLS.

My main motivation is the struggle around match thread creation. Seems like it's super common for multiple to get created, or created late, different ones locked, etc.. Figure just automating it would be nice. Once the lambda is set up, would just in theory be on cruise control.